With 10, 000 people expected, and with the arena having a very low ceiling, the atmosphere could be very special.
The house is on stepped levels, and the large downstairs living room has a surprisingly low ceiling, creating unexpected intimacy.
To add drama in a long hallway with a low ceiling, repeat the same flush-mounted ceiling fixture every few feet.
State flags still hanging from the low ceiling are a testament to ex-college kids' fervour during the recent "March Madness" of basketball season.
In the smaller plane I chartered, the seats and aisles were narrower and the low ceiling height only added fuel to the fire.
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To add style in a room with a low ceiling, select a style that is wider than it is tall for best effect.
Most of us who learned to play tennis as adults never learned to use topspin, which put a low ceiling on how good we can ever be.
Lawmakers put a low ceiling on the total number of policies that could be sold, thus guaranteeing that most insurance companies would make no effort to market them.
Today's passenger jets are already something like 75% more fuel efficient than the jets of the early 1960s, and the physics of flying imposes a low ceiling on further advances.
Saskia Sassen, co-chair on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and a leading expert on smart cities, draws parallels with the office buildings of the sixties, which she describes as "low-ceiling places now standing sad and empty as advanced technologies render them useless".
Hanging something low from the ceiling offers a welcome break in one's line of vision down the room.
It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.
There will be no ceiling on how much of this low-interest-rate money banks can borrow from the Bank of England.
One possible reason why inflation has remained above the European Central Bank's ceiling of 2%, despite low growth, is a lack of price competition.
Romney spent much of the summer lying low as his competitors weighed in on the debt ceiling debate and made exhaustive campaign stops in the early primary states.
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More likely, their longer-term growth will bump up against the ceiling of a European market in which the contestable low-cost segment is smaller than it is in the U.S., and well-established packaged-tour operators and national-flag carriers can block deeper inroads into the leisure- and business-travel segments.
Borrowing costs will increase, as any attempt by the central bank to keep rates lower will be met with resistance and QE3 (which will keep borrowing costs low) will not be readily accepted as evidenced by the refusal of House republicans to raise the debt ceiling.
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However, Cisco pointed out concerns in its last quarter earnings that the hike in the U.S. debt ceiling and the ongoing European debt crisis could weigh on its revenues in Q1 2012 and projected a low single digit growth for the quarter.
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