Sentence examples for top down I from inspiring English sources

It was time to put the top down; I stopped at a strip mall.

"So seeing as this law couldn't be passed from the top down, I felt I'd start a grass-roots movement to try to get it passed from the bottom up".

Sitting in bumper-to-bumper summer traffic with the top down, I was not able to pull to the side of the road and did not have the urge to wrestle with the cloth top alone.

— My dear, fun 2002 Volkswagen Cabrio — my black convertible summer car, the car that carried the family's surfboards and bikes, that on warm nights with the top down, I'd take for moonlight drives along Jones Beach — was pronounced dead on Feb. 21 at the Alliance Auto Parts salvage yard at 50-16 72nd Street in Woodside, Queens, one more victim of Hurricane Sandy.

Loping along at 140 mph on an English motorway with the top down, I found the Volante's unruffled cockpit the perfect place to be on a sunny day in the Cotswolds.

If you believe the Republican notion that economic growth happens from the top down, I have some great swampland to sell you.

Hahn et al. (2006) also proposed, that top-down (i.e. endogenous) attention shows a stronger lateralization into the left hemisphere than bottom-up (i.e. exogenous) attention processes [42].

They argue that the rapid and robust (within session) attenuation of N1 arises from bottom-up processes that overtime influence top-down (i.e., cortico-cortico) connections linked to auditory memory to produce neural enhancements of P2 to repetitive stimulation.

Behavior on distractor-salient trials directly measured the outcome of competition between top-down knowledge and bottom-up attentional capture; the behavioral data demonstrated trial-by-trial differences in whether oculomotor control of the first saccade was won by top-down (i.e., fs-target trials) or bottom-up (i.e., fs-distractor trials) attentional processes.

Thus, this intervention was designed to have both a top-down (i.e., supervisor-based) and bottom-up (i.e., employee-based) components.

This integrated approach allows PCCC-related emissions to be comprehensively characterized via both top-down (i.e., bulk characterization using AMS and a total organic carbon and total nitrogen (TOC/TN) analyzer) and bottom-up analysis (i.e., molecular analyses using IC, ESI-MS, and AMS).