Sentence examples for steadily downgrade from inspiring English sources

The recent economic data has prompted economists to steadily downgrade their forecasts for economic growth in the second quarter of this year.

The major credit-rating agencies have steadily downgraded Commerzbank and HVB, putting them in danger of losing their A ratings.

This represents the cheeriest outlook for a couple of years during which it has steadily downgraded its growth forecasts.

Abbott has steadily downgraded his vow to "shirtfront" Putin over his handling of the shooting down of the Malaysian plane in July.

They note heroes (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century), villains (Thomas ­Hobbes, John Calvin, the 19th century), tracking how kindness was "steadily downgraded from a universal imperative to the prerogative of specific social constituencies: romantic poets, clergymen, charity workers, and — above all — women".

Perhaps that is just as well, because scientific estimates of the rate of climate change have steadily been downgraded.

With BP's share price falling to half the level it stood at when the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20th, and estimates of how much it will have to fork out to clean up the oil spill and pay compensation rising steadily, Fitch downgraded the oil company's credit rating by six notches to BBB, close to junk.

Yet the chart shows how analysts have been steadily, and reluctantly, downgrading profits.

He has been steadily marginalised on his paper, downgraded from a staff position to contributor, his desk taken over by the fashion department.

The move, which came after months of steadily more ominous threats and a downgrade of Nassau's debt by a credit-rating agency in November, turns the oversight board into a control board, with vast power to rewrite the county's budget and veto labor contracts, borrowings and other important financial commitments.

As Cosme reached steadily cooler water temperatures, it was downgraded to a tropical depression late on July 18 about 900 mile southeast of Hilo, Hawaii; at around the same time, the storm entered the forecast responsibility of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.