Downward in example sentence

Confidential company documents made available in late March suggest that Shell withheld vital information on the extent of the downward revaluation of its Nigerian reserves - by 1.5 billion barrels (60% of the country's total reserves) - because it wanted to strengthen Nigeria's hand in negotiating with OPEC to increase the country's production quota.

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But the more we learn about aging, the clearer it becomes that a sweeping downward course is grossly inaccurate.

I mean, you know, it was interesting, because I spent basically two years hanging out in this city, Dongguan, and over that time, you could see immense change in every person's life: upward, downward, sideways, but generally upward.

That last downward notch in the red line is not actual data.

The record is always trending downward, but it's punctuated by these steep cliffs.

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