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All this has downgraded the Old Masters on an American-dominated art market and elevated Van Gogh, Monet and Picasso.The Japanese some of whose artists trained in Paris between 1880 and 1920 revere the Impressionists for more complex reasons.

Our armed forces have been, and should be, our insurance policy – today this government has downgraded our national policy from "fully comp" to "third-party fire and theft".

This government has downgraded citizenship education to non-statutory, but it should be a compulsory GCSE, not a dead-end subject.

S.& P. has downgraded the country four times this year.

Mr Chávez has downgraded border security.

She has downgraded her level of play in each win.

History has not forgotten Liston but it has downgraded him.

The European Union has downgraded its relations with Austria.

Mr Brown has downgraded his forecast for 2003-04 by half a percentage point.

Standard & Poor's, a credit-rating agency, has downgraded Spain and 11 of its banks.

It has downgraded forecasts of GDP growth for 12 countries in 2002 and 14 in 2003.