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Simple sentences
The hill slopes downward to the river.
The water runs downward to the pond.
Movie subtitles
Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt your downward spiral, - you self-loathing, self-pitying.
Certainly not downward.
The downward angle of it, you know?
Downward off the mizzen.
What a strong downward pull!
No, it's the force that pulls you downward, the phenomenon that any two material particles or bodies, if free to move, will be accelerated toward each other.
But we have no idea what causes the downward leaps.
I am into downward mobility.
Left to right, angle is downward an inch below the hairline. Show me.
What my timeless downward look has taught me, I want to transmute. to sustain a glance. a short shout, a sour smell.
You get caught in a downward spiral.
The magic bullet enters the President's back, headed downward at a 17-degree angle.
The third shot, frame 232 hits Kennedy in the back, pulling him downward and forward.
As I remember, the line you are drawing should proceed downward, not across.
My wife and I found him lying dead in the yew alley, Face downward.
And for a bullet to have traveled downward at such an angle the revolver would have to have been fired by some little gremlin hanging from our porch roof.
Close your fingers tightly on this, palm downward.
Palm downward.
This could be attained by a downward flight path of seven degrees below the horizontal.
Face downward in the gravel.
Let it move downward from the mounds.
Your feet are already on the downward path.
You can believe rain falls downward.
See, that's the difference between you and me, Diane, I am into downward mobility.
Now Angelo was shot at a downward angle.
Instead, it changed its path again, struck downward towards the Earth.
Caterina, ottopyr' thumb downward.
The first three were upward thrusts the last two were downward while the victim was already falling.
If I remove my finger, the water, against its nature, which is to flow downward, instead rushes upward into the syringe, quite forcefully.
It's a downward slope.
What my timeless downward look has taught me. I want to transmute, to sustain a glance. a short shout, a sour smell.
Press it downward.
And I think that the downward fall is gonna be very fast.
Go downward, long strokes.
News and current affairs
Europe will join America in a downturn, reinforcing America's decline and setting in motion a global downward spiral.
Now we finally have a chance to break out of the downward spiral of economic decline.
Once upon a time, according to mythology at least, America had little downward mobility.
The coming generation will be one of massive downward mobility for many Americans.
This militarized approach is leading the world into a downward spiral of violence and conflict.
Moreover, commercial real estate is beginning to follow the downward trend in residential real estate.
But, while gradual adjustment is essential, faster and deeper cuts are largely self-defeating: big reductions in private credit and government spending will cause a sharper slowdown - and thus a vicious downward spiral.
Worse still, could the mood in housing markets soon lead prices in downward?
At this point, there is likely to be some downward instability in prices, because enthusiasm for investing in houses is likely to wane in line with declining price growth.
Then, contagion within and across markets can work in a downward direction, propelling prices lower for years.
Under the existing regime, the country had been on a rapid downward spiral of the kind that has now become familiar in Greece and elsewhere in Europe.
The peak ratio and the subsequent downward trajectory depend crucially on the assumed pace of economic growth.
Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.
There is more: state and local budget-cutting has slowed America's pace of investment in human capital and infrastructure, adding a third percentage point to the downward shift in the country's long-term growth trajectory.
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, the US slipped to fifth place in 2011-2012, from fourth place the previous year, continuing a general downward trend evident since 2005.
Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.
We just don't know yet whether the crisis will cause another reversion to the mean, but some downward adjustment looks likely.
Similarly, on a number of questions concerning gender equality - including political leadership, equal access to higher education, and wifely obedience - the numbers continued a downward trend.
Regarding the stock market and the housing market, there may well be a major downward correction someday.
Newspapers report downward revisions in growth estimates for all the major developed countries: the United States, Germany, France, Japan.
But the downward trend in the trade balance is clear.
As in Japan, the downward trend in China's saving rate will show up in its current account.
This spring, the State Environmental Protection Administration produced the country's first official estimate of GDP adjusted downward for environmental losses.
This downward pressure on prices has allowed Western central banks to follow expansionary monetary policies, underpinning higher employment and growth.