Sentence examples for world was down from inspiring English sources

When that day also came and went, even Camping had to accept that the continued existence of the world was down to something other than his failure to carry the 1.

The Irish Mail on Sunday fell 7.2% to 78,151; the Sunday World was down 8.9% to 162,938; and both the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People were down by 12.9%, to 26,628 and 9,878 respectively.

And there's French psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau, who suggested that the low prevalence of insanity in the Arab world was down to a preference for cannabis over alcohol: testing his theory he swallowed three grams before dinner and found himself preparing to fight a duel with a bowl of candied fruit.

The production of motherboards in Taiwan, one of the largest motherboard-manufacturing bases in the world, was down 20% in May alone, according to C.B Lee, an analyst with San Francisco-based brokerage Sutro & Co.

"The whole world is down because of the North America troubles.

When the whole world is down, do you think we'll be up?

"Most of the relevant car markets in the world are down.

As a stock group, the Exxon Mobils and Texacos of the world are down for the year so far.

Traffic at O'Hare International Airport, still one of the busiest airports in the world, is down more than 25percentt in the last month, according to several airlines.

On Monday, the fast-food giant revealed that for a 12th straight month, same-restaurant sales around the world were down.

With Libyan exports suspended, the world is down to an increasingly slim cushion of spare capacity, estimated at four million barrels a day, to make up for supply shortfalls or meet rising demand.