Sentence examples for is downwards from inspiring English sources

"The trajectory for the rebels is downwards, and the downward slope is increasingly steep," warned Emile Hokayem of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, one of many critics who believe the US is naive about Russian intentions.

"The spiral is not upwards, it is downwards.

From 2002 to 2011, where the methods change, the long-term trend in smoking is downwards.

What I mean by that is instead of the trend being upwards it is downwards.

The general trend is downwards: compared with the second half of the 1990s subsidies fell in all countries.

The ABS national health survey has not yet covered the plain packaging time period, but again, the long-term trend is downwards.

Recently revisions have tended to be downwards.

But in 1997, the trend was downwards.

But the general trend has been downwards.Why?

In contrast, revisions in America have tended to be downwards.

OK, so the general trend has been downwards from that 2004 peak.