Sentence examples for zone ratings from inspiring English sources

European officials have responded to successive downgrades of euro zone ratings — Ireland, for example, was downgraded to junk status this week by Moody's — by criticizing the grip that the ratings agencies have over investors.

QUALITY AND IMPACT OF DEFENSE This is measured using the Total Zone Ratings (which you can see in the accompanying chart) of every player on the team and ranges from 11 runs lost for the Pirates' Paul Maholm to 7 runs saved for the Mariners' Felix Hernandez.

These questions are addressed by an observational study of child behavior in ten contemporary public playgrounds which includes play zone identification, on-site observations, statistical evaluation of zone playability/sociability and analysis of correlations between feature categories and play zone ratings.

For ornamentals, the regional limits of cultivar adaptability are already considered by many consumers and retailers through USDA hardiness zone ratings.

Only in the Pacific time zone did ratings go up.

The L.D.S. schedule is a jigsaw puzzle that takes into account time zones, the ratings potential of markets, the presence of late-afternoon shadows in West Coast ballparks, the labor agreement, travel schedules, and, naturally, the networks' desires.

LONDON — Italy had a relatively strong debt sale on Friday, though worries about euro zone nations' credit ratings tempered the enthusiasm of investors.

That risks aggravating the deep Europe-wide recession threatening next year, which could prompt a downgrade of the entire zone's credit ratings and cause economies to miss their deficit targets triggering still more austerity.Although the compact was greeted as the acme of European solidarity, it is more likely to provoke strife.

The action, of mainly technical interest since the bloc itself does not issue debt on a large scale, came after the agency on Monday put 15 of the 17 euro member nations on watch for downgrade, meaning all of the euro zone countries face ratings cuts — and potentially higher borrowing costs — if the crisis meetings fail.

But it seems almost certain to be the case that his status as a cherished television personality died there – posthumously – on Wednesday night, with the irony that one of the most talked-about shows of recent times had to be screened in this low-ratings zone because its stories about a children's TV presenter were so unsuitable for children.

The rest of eastern Europe has depended heavily on exports westward and is struggling given the recent fall in euro-zone GDP.Fitch, a ratings agency, forecasts in its recent report on eastern Europe that GDP growth in the region will slip to 5.8% this year (the lowest since 2002) and to 5.2% in 2009.