Sentence examples for lowered ceilings from inspiring English sources

"The original features were all behind lowered ceilings and the marble floors were covered with concrete and carpeting, so you can imagine how the building looked all done in a '70s style," Mr. de Rooij said.

Ms. Fiorina said that the latter problem was being addressed by a management shake-up, a more formal process to review investments and lowered ceilings on how much the company will invest in individual start-ups.

"What counts most now is that Russia and the United States start moving jointly or along parallel courses toward radically lowered ceilings on nuclear warheads without any holdups," Mr. Putin said before leaving Moscow.

"What counts most now is that Russia and the United States start moving jointly or along parallel courses toward radically lowered ceilings on nuclear warheads without any holdups," Mr. Putin said before leaving for Mongolia and then Brunei for a summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders.

But at first I was somewhat skeptical about our choice, particularly after driving eight hours from Maine through the August haze to get there, only to find that the lobby, with its contemporary crystal chandeliers, lowered ceilings and wall-to-wall carpeting in various swirling shades of green and purple, is a temple to the worst design elements of the late 60's.

And if you think you can't recreate the ornate neo-Classical Sculpture Gallery of the Casita del Labrador at Aranjuez (the one with the Roman busts, marble floor and vaulted ceilings that was designed for King Carlos IV) in a building that seems organized around the design concept of lowered ceilings, you're wrong.

A lowered ceiling in a dining area, for instance, can be pleasant and intimate, but a lowered ceiling covering only part of the area can be most distracting.

The Bernstein Suite is perhaps the most dramatic, with itsslightly lowered ceiling adding to the drama of stepping out onto itsterraces from which one recent female guest commented, "You feel like youown Paris".

Since the 1940s, climate control has prompted architects to lower ceilings and scrap such pleasant features as balconies and porches, which leak costly cooled air into the outside world.

The two robotic characters provide some amusing death scenes in the cooperative mode, such as struggling while being crushed by a lowering ceiling.

The local bosses' association says that 40% of firms were hit by lowered borrowing ceilings between January and March, and 15% were told to pay back loans.