Sentence examples for officials down from inspiring English sources

In a survey for Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog, Kenyans reported that they were asked for bribes during only 40% of encounters with officials, down from 65% under Mr Moi.

He became the biggest prescriber of OxyContin under the state's health insurance program for the poor, Medi-Cal, and it was the $1 million price tag associated with those prescriptions, he says, not any illegal prescribing, that brought law enforcement officials down on him.

As President Rousseff spoke on the pitch in Natal, no-one thought to ask her how she could be so confident that, somehow, officials down in Curitiba will turn things around in just a couple of weeks.

This was stated by officials down from the prime minister.

This was his opportunity, without crowing about it, to take the snooty officials down a peg.

All members of Parliament and local government officials down to the district level were among the invitees, as well as representatives of the Taliban — who did not come — and other opponents of the president, some of whom did.

Initially, local officials played down the attack.

School officials cut down the tree.

Russian officials played down the incidents.

Senior Pakistani officials play down the threat.

Administration officials play down such concerns.