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The results are showing: independent monitoring by the World Bank and other organizations show that in many instances the trend is downwards in terms of corruption, and governance is improving.
Every year since, it's been revised downwards.
It drifts downwards very slightly, but now look what happens under George W. Bush and Obama.
It does not have to be imposed from the top downwards.
In fact, the natural world is organized hierarchically upwards, not downwards, but upwards, and we begin with a self-regulating, semi-autonomous unit called a cell.
What's nice about this scheme, this hierarchical scheme building upwards rather than downwards, is that it allows us to think about illness as well in a somewhat different way.
Whooshing downwards, the fluid enters the urethra and stops short at the external urethral sphincter.
This sends a sound wave downwards, and then the reflection, the echo from the sound wave from the seabed or schools of fish, gives us an idea of what's happening below the surface.
Instead of curving downwards to make a regular rib cage, the ribs move outwards towards the carapacial ridge.
Geneticists will know this, but every year since, it's been revised downwards.
After I couldn't ignore the hype about the show, I started watching season one and it struck me as really good and I was hooked.... for about 5 episodes, then it started to spiral downwards.
Considering that this movie had a serious and quite successful launching campaign, I would have expected something to be worth the fuzz...from the opening scene on (in which the two brothers "sensually" caress each other, laying naked in a bed) it goes rapidly downwards...nothing to get the attention, not a mind-catching thing in the whole plot, baaad baad acting (a few minor exceptions, but artificiality is at its best).
What makes it worse is the film's pretentions to "style": suddenly a remote-head crane shot spirals downwards, and, without any apparent reason there are sudden whip-pans or wobblyhand-held sections: all this "style" merely serves to magnify the almost unbelievably huge misconception of the project and the almost offensive vacuity of the material.
For me, the film went downwards from then on.
Cole Hauser is very very good in this picture, he humanizes a man spiraling downwards.
Dramatically, everything spirals downwards until every character finds him- or herself in a world of screaming pain.
In Gia, Gia is an international famous model whose life spirals downwards due to heroine addiction and dies due to AIDS.
While the movie takes off and creates minute by minute a perfect dark story it will take you at the same time on a ride onto that downwards spiral of loosing every inch of sanity a human being can possess.
There are also already some typical Bergman postures, with one woman talking intensely and the one next to her staring vapidly past her downwards, seemingly lost in her own inner world.
It is truly sad to watch Michelle Rodriguez, who is a pretty good actress and damned sexy, continue to spiral downwards doing bad films.
The scandals may be pushing the boat of market sentiment downwards, but their effect is being overwhelmed by the rising tide of economic prosperity, at least for now.
It is also a non-static concept, as estimates of reserves will generally be revised upwards or downwards as additional geologic or engineering data become available, as technology improves, and/or as economic conditions (such as oil prices and production costs) change.
But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the upward trend in global growth.
China’s investment is far more import-intensive than its consumption, which has continued to trend downwards.
In fact, the latest figures from the World Bank indicate that growth reached just 2.7% in 2011, and will slow this year to 2.5% – a figure that may well need to be revised downwards.
As for the practical responsibilities and the jurisdictions of the State, these can go into two directions: downwards or upwards.
As it is, a number of European countries, starting with France and Italy, are revising their economic growth forecasts downwards, and the European Commission will produce its own revised forecasts for the whole of Euroland on October 21.
'Ah yes!Pride!' he said to himself, turning over face downwards and beginning to tie blades of grass into knots, trying not to break them.
The steep road led downwards, and everything disappeared.
But she returned, and the servant brought Berthe, who was swinging a windmill roof downwards at the end of a string.