The British government says the country's terror threat is taking a step down from critical.
But by those same standards, men are often asking to take a step down.
By shifting out of shopping malls, Sears has already taken a step down a new road.
The final products will be a step down from what you could make with more professional machines.
Anderson does not see Strachan taking over Middlesbrough as a step down for the 52-year-old despite his time with Celtic in the Champions League.
"Most of these kids are going to have a step down in lifestyle when they have to enter the working-world environment after they graduate, " says John E.
This presents problems, not so much because it's a step down to change baby's nappies, but because it's a step down to earn less than baby's mum.
But after four first-round defeats in the five WTA tour events that she has played in this season, she has decided to take a step down in class.
Silva, a Brazilian national-team defender, actually apologized to the fans he left behind at AC Milan when he arrived in France, because his move was seen as a step down.
Some may feel that his decision to leave the Championship for a return to the SPL - on the brink of a cash crisis - is a step down the career ladder.
Matt Prior took a step down the pitch and lofted Zaheer Khan straight back over his head for six but the left-armer soon had the last word when Prior top edged to mid-on.
"It's always easier to come from the top and take a step down than to do what Xerox and HP are trying to do: Come from the bottom and take a step up, " says Susanne Schwartze, an analyst with M.
Mr. Bernanke said to Congress on Wednesday that an early pullback on bond buying could stall the recovery but that the Fed could "take a step down" from the purchases within the time frame of the next few policy-setting meetings if economic data support that path.
But its decrease in monthly active users is still a big step down, or more accurately, a steady decline for the game.
So yes, the bedroom, with that plump queen bed, is a tight space, but the bathroom has a step-down slate soaking tub that fills from a spout in the ceiling and has an infinity edge so you need not worry about flooding the room.
And we have held up, for instance, the model of Yemen, where you had a leader step down from power in an orderly fashion and then a road map towards elections.
On 2 June he won a no confidence vote in the Diet (parliament), only by making a promise to step down at a future date.
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In ten years' time, it may be that it will be seen as a sad step down the road to South Africa's disintegration.
It's actually a slight step down in terms of pixel density, but the extra space is more than worth it, as now this can make for a passable video player.
Not only is the new design unfriendly to home entertainment centers (where most PS3s reside, we'd argue), but it feels cheap and unstable -- a distinct step down from the previous two models' front-loading tray design.
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When testing out the X7i -- a logical step-down from the X10i -- I found the new flat cabling to be a bit jarring.
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Terry ended up getting 38% of shares cast against his election which is a very high number and he decided to step down a few days after the vote was announced.
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History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.
Therefore, I would like to take the responsibility for this editorial decision and, as a result, step down as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Remote Sensing.
Yet it was still a welcome step back down to Earth.
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