The three exceptions were Berlin, where prices were down 1.5%, Prague, down 6.8%, and Lisbon, where lower sight-seeing prices have helped push the Portuguese capital's overall costs down 19.1%, making it the cheapest eurozone city.
Even with lower sights, negotiators face the same hurdle over taxes that has ended a series of bipartisan talks in 2011 — between Mr. Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner; between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader; and between lawmakers on a so-called supercommittee.
His poems are marked by what Andrew Motion calls a very English, glum accuracy about emotions, places, and relationships, and what Donald Davie described as lowered sights and diminished expectations.
Most beginners aim too high, and this exercise trains the eye to lower the "sight picture" of the shot, aiming more at the rim.
The minute you go for the mass audience, you have to lower your sights".
Lloyds, 40% owned by the taxpayer since the financial crisis, was forced to lower its sights to push through the deal after months of delays.
Very well, she would lower her sights.
I suppose we should just lower our sights.
O.K., so people have to lower their sights.
If that's the case, MoMA should simply lower its sights.
