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Datalex continued its downward spiral after reporting a larger than expected second-quarter loss last week.
A Basque waistline, or any drop-waist style that angles downward, will lengthen a short torso.
The heat peaks caused by the upward and downward pressure jumps differ in sign but should agree in absolute values.
When using the combat roll, your downward energy is compacted and the tight roll causes a slight flowing impact.
Also, because the light is redirected downward, the same amount of illumination can be achieved using a lower wattage bulb.
The result was not pretty but did show just how powerful the rudder is as she weathercocked into the downward vertical.
However at night, counterilluminators are found closer to the surface, where the spectrum of the downward radiance changes rapidly with depth.
It was so massive that the floor sank several feet downward under its weight.
He then shifted his position a little and felt the bed sinking downward because of his weight.
She hits downward, a jolt searing through my shoulder blade, I sag visibly.
Many crayfish flee the sun downward, tunneling after the subsiding water table until they reach moist mud in which to estivate.
And another downward ratchet in wages would just about guarantee it will get worse.
Pryce took his opponent's blow upon his shield, easily deflecting the downward stroke.
On the downward stroke of the piston, the intake valve opens to release fuel into the combustion chamber, then closes.
It may sound like the voice of someone readying themselves for a downward swing in work, a shift into the slow lane.
Aside from that we do try and arrange the airflow so they go downward away from your nose and mouth.
I could see how Andy was on a downward spiral and I think the rejection from us helped kick-start his career.
What transpires is a downward spiral of shame and recriminations culminating in Veena being shunned by her family and turned out of the house.
The problem is that numbers of red grouse are in freefall, continuing a downward trend witnessed over the past 20 years or more.
The statistics reflect a continuing downward trend in overall crime rates during the past three years.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And this craft bore past there often, inching its downward way with swifters of logs, driving fast up-lake without a tow.
In 1830 Lander traced a large part of the course of the Niger downward to its mouth, discovering its tributary the Benue.
Cherokee roses starred the hedges, or, adventurously climbing the highest trees, flung downward graceful pendants.
The bulb hangs downward from the terminal t, the zinc sheet Z, performing the double office of intensifier and reflector.
The neumes signified mostly intonations, upward or downward slides of the voice, and not absolute pitch.
The jabiru stork heard it, and craned its featherless neck to stare downward through beady eyes.
The jackstay was torn from his grasp, and he fell, face downward, into the black void beneath.
Their voices died away, and with them the dry noise of stones falling downward from their feet on the sunbaked mountain-side.
Roma, face downward, heard these sounds in the lapses of a terrible memory.
Oblique lines, of the darker color of the back, running forward and downward to a little below the lateral line.
However it had come about, poor scarry had indubitably been put into the earth face downward.
The zygomatic arch is complete, but there is no downward process as in the Sloths.
In the last lap his gasoline gave out, the aeroplane shot downward and was smashed against a telephone pole.
Soft mosses crept around the marble basin, and dropped downward to the tesselated floor.
Slowly Sheumais raised an arm and pointed downward through the wood toward the lochan.
A moment later they were on the downward slope, and she had vanished from their view.
But, spurred by fears for his friend, he started downward for the precipitious trail leading directly towards it.
With a sense of something vaguely strange, she bent her eyes downward on her neighbour's machzor.
The question hung unanswered in the still air of the cabin as the airboat dropped downward.
The head inclines towards the affected side, and the tip of the shoulder tends to pass slightly downward, forward, and medially.
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