Sentences with phrase «down precipitous»

Mileage Plan is old - school and, although it has devalued recently, is hasn't gone down the precipitous route that Delta, United, British Airways, Air France / KLM and, of course, American Airlines have gone.

From here the Devil's Nose Train makes its decent down the precipitous face of the mountain.

The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths.

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And since the ranking draws on 2014 data, it doesn't account for last year's precipitous drop in oil prices, which may in future drag down compensation for energy sector bosses, who are well - represented on this list.

Gold has been in a precipitous decline since 2011, down 4 percent in 2015 and on track for its longest yearly losing streak since 1997.

The other component here is that fuel prices have been way down due to the precipitous drop in oil prices.

Of course, the precipitous drop in oil prices (down about 40 % from last year) is helping some large manufacturing, consumer discretionary, and transportation companies (prominently including airlines) offset the negative impact of the rising dollar.

The course snakes through skull - breaking rocks and trees, down drops as precipitous as the side of Boulder Dam — and the racer's only meaningful armor is the crash helmet that makes him look faceless and oddly sinister.

Looking in the mirror I felt great (except for a precipitous cup - size loss, down to DD), but the second I'm forced to compare myself to a dressmaker's dummy I'm indistinguishable from a SADsack.

According to Variety's report on the 2016 box office, «Ticket sales are down roughly 10 % this summer, but the slide is more precipitous than those numbers suggest... On a per - capita basis, the moviegoing audience is at its lowest levels in nearly a century.»

In Going Down River on the USS J - Bone of an Ass (2017) two boats - one red tugboat, one made of an enormous floating mandible with a ripped sail - are floating down an acid green river toward a precipitous drop where all will most certainly tumble down and drDown River on the USS J - Bone of an Ass (2017) two boats - one red tugboat, one made of an enormous floating mandible with a ripped sail - are floating down an acid green river toward a precipitous drop where all will most certainly tumble down and drdown an acid green river toward a precipitous drop where all will most certainly tumble down and drdown and drown.

With a promising start, delivering almost 1,100 MW for a brief spurt, the team determined to down tools after breakfast, with a precipitous 500 MW collapse in less than 90 minutes.

The slope is not only slippery — the way down is precipitous.

But beyond the shellacking Facebook is suffering on Wall Street — the company's stock price is down another 5 percent today, as of this writing, following a precipitous drop on Monday — it's hard to say whether anyone will «answer for this.»