| It would also make investment less viable, a beautiful place would be downgraded and there would be health risks. |
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| The hallucinogenic LSD could now be downgraded after the advisory body confirmed it plans to review that drug next. |
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| The danger is that the Tralee hospital will be starved of investment and, by implication, be downgraded by stealth over a period of time. |
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| Although she does have a nanny and a supportive husband who downgraded his career to help hers. |
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| Yet post Deane, he also wanted the role downgraded to a merely ceremonial one. |
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| Pythagoreans believed that anyone who downgraded his life by immoral and impure acts would be born as animal in his next life. |
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| Cumbria team manager Roger Hackney said he felt the county championship was being downgraded. |
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| That conviction was downgraded to manslaughter on appeal and he was given a five-year sentence. |
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| After being downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet last year, it now transpires it is not even the biggest of those. |
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| In 2006 Pluto was officially downgraded from planet to dwarf planet, causing much controversy in astronomical circles. |
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| Evacuees were not paying council tax and some bandings had been downgraded, reducing the amount of rates collected. |
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| Five years ago Selby police station's cells were downgraded due to cutbacks, and prisoners could only spend six hours there. |
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| Over the course of development, that number was downgraded to roughly 1,300 spots. |
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| Campaigners fighting to maintain services at the hospital took this as a sign the hospital would not be downgraded. |
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| However, under this legislation we have downgraded safety to the same level as sustainability. |
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| Boots' shares were downgraded by British analysts following disappointing second quarter results last week. |
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| Apart from the ease of apparently authentic numbering, holograms have been globally downgraded as a protection. |
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| Moments ago, in fact, we just told you it was downgraded to a tropical storm. |
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| Its British broker, downgraded their rating on the company to neutral from buy yesterday morning. |
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| But the report has stopped short of recommending which hospitals will be downgraded. |
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| By upgrading the importance of other factors he downgraded the importance of economic growth in the development process. |
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| Fears are growing in Limerick this week that cancer services at the Regional Hospital could be downgraded. |
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| Their concern is that the quality of service will be downgraded if the proposals are implemented. |
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| In my life on the internet I had just downgraded the firewall from a minor nuisance to virtual non-existent. |
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| Even when cannabis is downgraded from a Class B to a Class C drug next year, her relative could still face charges for buying the drug. |
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| I made an executive decision about my life and downgraded my bed to a cheap tatami mat, a traditional straw Japanese mat meant for sleeping. |
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| A top 10 hit is merely a college radio staple, and I'm downgraded from a Benz to a beater. |
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| Finally, the mole beneath her mouth was downgraded from beauty spot to powdered pimple. |
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| The list of thirty-eight downgraded or seriously questioned works has been culled from a wide variety of specialist publications. |
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| Stained or dirty beans are subject to being downgraded to feed quality, significantly reducing the value of the crop. |
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| Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping. |
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| The race was downgraded from Grade 3 to ungraded, pending review, when it was moved from the turf to the dirt. |
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| With the heat going out of the economy, many half-completed deals are being unstitched because their profit forecasts are being downgraded. |
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| The ministry's procurement bureau, which was on an equal footing with the military armament bureau, will be downgraded and become the bureau's procurement center. |
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| But investor confidence is not in rude health, and companies that are not whiter than white in their accountancy practices are being downgraded by the market. |
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| Probably Aristotle also disapproved of Medea as a tragic heroine, because he downgraded plots like this one that show a good person deliberately choosing evil. |
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| Although the weather system was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm as it passed over land it brought more than a foot of rain to some areas. |
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| They downgraded the match from an international to a challenge. |
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| Changes in employment that have downgraded the status and pay of many of the old white-collar professions have rendered this term almost meaningless. |
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| The company's revolving credit facility from its banks is fully utilised and the cost of its bank debt has increased significantly since Elan was downgraded to junk. |
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| The union is so angered by the appraisal system, which it says has unfairly downgraded many workers, that it is taking High Court action against the Government. |
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| The imperial court in Kyoto was downgraded to a purely titular power. |
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| Editors downgraded her stories on the Joyce Meyer Ministries in 2005 and then published an apology to the televangelist. |
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| However, Portsmouth City Council won a concession, and rather than face closure, the dockyard was downgraded to a naval base. |
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| In the subsequent years, ITV Meridian's workforce has been condensed slowly with its operations considerably downgraded. |
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| Elizabeth, like Mary, was downgraded to the status of Lady and removed from the line of succession. |
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| Royal Mail insists that only 'low volume' pillar boxes are being downgraded. |
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| And although it was downgraded from a supertyphoon to a strong typhoon yesterday, it lashed the coast with winds of up to 100mph. |
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| Should credit deterioration become more pronounced than anticipated, SNV's ratings could be downgraded further. |
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| But foreign participation in the eurobonds has fallen after ratings agencies downgraded Lebanon's outlook from stable to negative. |
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| A day after Standard and Poor Ratings Services downgraded BNP Paribas, stock prices of banks in France plummeted. |
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| Fitch Ratings, one of three national bond rating firms, downgraded the city's future outlook for its credit rating on Thursday from stable to negative. |
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| More recently, sections of former national primary routes which have been bypassed by motorways or other road improvement schemes have been downgraded to regional road status. |
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| As previously noted, Fitch downgraded 84 classes consisting of 36 senior and 48 subordinate or junior subordinate classes from 25 trusts as summarized below. |
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| Analyst, Matthew Borsch, said, 'We have downgraded AET to Neutral from Buy reflecting our view of less upside potential given our forecast for less favourable sector trends. |
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| Belbin said the difference between gold and silver could have been their downgraded twizzle, a multirotational turn on one foot while gliding across the ice. |
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| Warwickshire County Councillors have officially ratified a recommendation to save six maintained nursery schools which were under threat of having their statuses downgraded. |
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