Sentence examples for revision downwards from inspiring English sources

Each of these revolutions is in a sense a demotion: a revision downwards of our place in the order of things.

Thanks to the combined impact of the financial crisis and the austerity programme, the OBR had already revised downwards its estimates of the country's productivity and the growth of productive potential; this revision took place between last November's autumn statement and the March budget.

The published figures contain small revisions as a result of the review including the number of times Tasers were used in the first half of 2014 being revised downwards by 15, or 0.3%, and the figure for the number of times they were fired increased by 7.

This was revised downwards to 40,000 earlier this year.

In 2012, this number was revised downwards.

The downwards revision comes after factory output contracted in China during February.

These uncertainties are hitting investment already, and are likely to hit the whole economy shortly, as the IMF's sharp downwards revision of its previous forecasts shows.

Yet now the margin target is again looking Panglossian, analysts expect the company to make a downwards revision.

'History has revised Diana downwards,' he said.

Recently revisions have tended to be downwards.

"But throughout the industrial world the vast majority of the revisions in growth forecasts have been downwards for many years now".