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Examples
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As long as the dollar is continuously traded around in the states, there should be no downard pressure on it.
Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So go Obama, you are doing the right thing for the short term in not letting our economy slip further downard.
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Put this in the context of Obama's downard trendline in New Hampshire ...
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We see the spiralling downard, the busting down, of Americans 'living standards, increasing the likelihood of a major recession with its attendant hardship and deprivation, coupled witih high inflation and energy prices and decreasing wages and purchasing power.
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To deal with supposed biases sound familiar? the index is constantly adjusted downard.
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I keep googling for a response from her, but so far the search is fruitless - maybe because the search terms eg downard coulter reaction must be so broad as to guarantee a huge return.
Secondary Addiction: Ann Coulter on Evolution, part 2 - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Talk about defining deviancy in this case from accepted norms on human rights downard.
David Reinhard lowers the bar and Karl Rove must resign or be fired. Mumon 2005
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"As a consequence, the recommendations made are unlikely to exert sufficient downard pressure on vehicle prices," he said.
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Punch the lever you find off to the left and then go back to the right and downard
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"It 'ud seem beyond the possibility of belief," he says, "thet them conglomerations uv ice, hard froze an 'lookin' ez tight fixed ez a mainstay, for all thet hev a downard slitherin 'motion, jest like a stream o' water, tho 'in coorse thousands or millions o' times slower."
The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850
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