The downgrade means they can no longer take the most serious cases.

And yet, Washington was not able to stop our country's march toward downgrade.

"But in my view there is no business effect" from the downgrades.

Another downgrade is clearly a move in the wrong direction.

These downgrades should not have come as much of a surprise.

Try to talk to folks to see what they think of these downgrades.

It was the third downgrade for Ford in a little over a year.

Nonetheless, the door to a future downgrade would be opened.

The downgrade came late in the day, after markets closed.

For one thing, it will cause a downgrade of the city's bonds.

The term downgrade may be used in the opposite situation.

The company suffered a series of downgrades in 2004, despite good business performance.

Other leaders sought to talk down the effect of the downgrades, which were expected.

Guess another 5 years downgrade will soon come ahead for the Mia.

In fact, the Coyotes have taken a downgrade at nearly every position.

"People are getting out of downgrades before they happen or they're trying to upgrade in quality."

A year later, the service was made direct following the downgrade of aircraft.

But less than one in a hundred will walk their bikes on the downgrade.

The outlook is negative, which means the country could face further downgrades.

Expect traders to take risk off the table, downgrades or not.

Moody's also left the country on review for a further downgrade.

So she'd been at the right place on the downgrade to see the whole thing, despite the poor visibility.

"The downgrade is already in the market," one trader said.

The downgrades are significant, however, because Lloyd's could lose business.

The train was slowing as it came out of a downgrade.

The race was downgraded to Group 2 level in 2007.

All the others have been downgraded to staff and workers.

However, in 1973, it was downgraded to that of a nature park.

But the team was not quite ready for a great class and downgraded immediately.

However, by early 2006, he had been downgraded to the team's second best prospect.

The coach was downgraded to a bus few years later.

Why had he downgraded himself to working in a hotel, nice as it seemed?

And most of them have actually downgraded because they hated 5 so much that they've gone back to 2.8.

It was downgraded to a tropical low later in the day.

The film was downgraded to a 15 certificate in 2004.

The companies were downgraded after they had dropped on average 98.2 percent during the previous 52 weeks.

It downgraded the rating from buy in the spring of 2003.

The event has been downgraded to the level of defense ministers.

Schools not doing enough risk having their overall rating downgraded.

In the finished book, this figure has been downgraded to "somewhere between 10 and 25 percent."

Since spring, the major rating services have downgraded many life insurance companies.

Only the best pass; the others are either downgraded or discarded.

However, this was increasingly downgraded by the increased use of English.

For the third time since the election, the growth forecast has been downgraded.

They make money more expensive to borrow for the countries downgraded.

Many countries have downgraded their speakers from head of state to foreign minister or lower for the same reason.

It was downgraded from a named storm on December 24.

As a consequence, we have downgraded our forecast for 2012.

In fact they should have downgraded Greek bonds years ago.

From 2006, because of the single line, this was downgraded to every 36/24 minutes on weekdays.