Janet Yellen

By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more accommodative - supporting asset values and lower borrowing costs for households and businesses and thus encouraging the spending that spurs job creation and a stronger recovery.

American Public Servant

Florence Kelley

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

American Activist

Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

British Philosopher

Simon Mainwaring

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Businessman

Henri Nouwen

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

Dutch Clergyman

Jack Sock

When you're No. 8 in the world, then you start losing some matches, I think it was the first time in my career my confidence went down, and from there it was a downward spiral.

American Tennis Player

Piet Mondrian

The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.

Dutch Artist

Marcus Brigstocke

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

English Comedian

Rickie Lee Jones

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

American Musician

James Hillman

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

American Psychologist

Visualize moving from high to low places when using 'downward'.

Spatial Imagery

'Downward' clarifies the direction of motion in physical space.

Direction Clarity

'Downward' can describe slanted or angled directions, not just vertical ones.

Not Vertical

Use 'downward' to imply negative progression, like decrease or decline.

Indicates Decline

It's metaphorically used for things that worsen or deteriorate.

Metaphoric Usage

Imagine graphs or charts; 'downward' often relates to figures decreasing.

Visualize Graphs

'Downward' suggests a drop to a simpler or less developed state.

Less Advanced

Describes a decrease in mood or well-being, not just physical movement.

Emotional Descent

 So there are a lot of reasons to aim for good posture. But it's getting harder these days. Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward. Many studies suggest that, on average, posture is getting worse.

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 as they too move downwards in the water column. In the polar regions, we see how this small local process effects global movement. In the arctic and antarctic, where ice slabs decorate the water's surface, there's little temperature difference between surface and deeper waters.

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 But they're the exception. Most deep-sea creatures are confined to a narrow range in the water column where nutrients are scarce since the food drifting downwards from the surface rapidly sinks to the sea floor. Plunging all the way down, we find more exotic creatures.

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 because of a minor infraction, that could cost you the employee. If you're a college student who, say, is in a downward spiral, and you feel helpless and hopeless, unabated, that could cost you your life. So the stakes are very, very high.

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 things that you can see is it a wooden ball it's falling downwards the sand castle used to be here now it went that way so let's take this video and let's pull it apart see what's going on if we look at the forces involved maybe we can

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 That was the worst year. I was obsessively curious about sex and also deeply ashamed by it. It wasn't my only problem, of course, not by a long shot, but it was the beginning of a downward spiral. And my bad luck was to hit bottom

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 The clouds darken as they fill and become heavy with water. Cool, dry air from the upper layers of the atmosphere known as a downdraft then pull this moisture downward causing it to fall as life-sustaining rain.

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 Combined with the novel’s magical realism, this produces a sense of history as a downward spiral the characters seem powerless to escape. Beneath the magic is a story about the pattern of Colombian

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 incredible absolutely incredible saw that the mouth open almost said that it was fully wide like that almost creating a stabbing kind of shape rather than that a downward strike and the fangs are

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 2. Ask them to raise their arms. If one drifts downward, that arm weakness is also a sign of a stroke. 3. Ask them to repeat a simple word or phrase. If their speech sounds slurred or strange,