Sentence examples for permits down from inspiring English sources

In 2009, Westport's building department issued 55 residential demolition permits, down from 94 in 2007, at the height of the housing boom.

I then spoke with him about it, and he said, 'It's not about the nominee.' He said, 'It's because I want you to fire another employee, because he's standing in the way of wetlands permits needed for casinos.' "He wanted me to fire this guy who was handling the wetlands permits down in our regional office in Atlanta," she said.

At one point the strikers decided to march, at rush hour and without a permit, down the main commuter highway around the capital.

This, America claims, would reduce the EU's allowed subsidies to a mere twice what the United States is permitted, down from four times as much presently.Needless to say, this proposal has not gone down well across the Atlantic and Pacific.

The permits are down in part because of the successful management of the herd.

Single-family permits were down in all four regions of the country.

Building permits were down 1.8percentt, and housing completions also dropped, falling 0.9percentt for the month.

Single-family permits edged down 0.3percentto to a 1.423 million annual rate from June, which had the highest pace since 1960.

In the US shale industry, 550 drilling rigs are being idled already, a massive 25 per cent of the total, and new permits are down 40 per cent.

The number of permits is down, in part because the size of the herd is about where state officials want it and because excessive numbers of ticks, spawned by warmer winters, appear to be killing more moose.

It isn't Slowinski's redneck genius persona — meeting academy donors in a baggy T-shirt, smuggling reptiles without permits, kicking down his own door to impress a date when he forgets his keys.