What's the difference between downside and downward?

Downside


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (2) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
  • (3) Uncertainty over ‘Brexit’, weak overseas growth and financial market volatility are all creating an unsettling business environment and point to downside risks to the economy in 2016.” The official figures follow mixed reports on the economy in recent weeks.
  • (4) The downside No quick fix: You need to be mentally and personally engaged in the class for a number of sessions before you begin to feel the benefits.
  • (5) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (6) And, of course, cities built on heavy industry had all the downsides of pollution, waste and filth.
  • (7) The crime problems were enormous, riots tore apart many American cities – and the downside of fiscal decentralisation was that, in the 70s, you had cities like New York on the edge of bankruptcy .
  • (8) The only downside was that his link-up play with Robin van Persie was noticeable for its absence.
  • (9) On the downside what they sell has the potential to seriously damage the children who are buying it.
  • (10) "We're expecting 0.4% growth, and our judgment is that there are downside risks to that," says Walker.
  • (11) But the official admitted there had been internal debate about how heavily that campaign would stress the downsides of independence, with some strategists disputing the need to change tactics.
  • (12) The downside was the online ‘dump’ of all recent published research on the department’s website on the last Thursday of every month to minimise negative media coverage.
  • (13) We can just about recognise that line of argument, though Thursday's Guardian coincidentally highlights the downside of the acquisitive urge too.
  • (14) An expensive city with relatively low unemployment The main downside to studying in Asia’s world city, however, is that it’s far from cheap.
  • (15) But the downside of urban living can be a lack of personal contact.
  • (16) State intervention was the right policy, but bankers and their shareholders should have been left to enjoy the downside of the free markets whose merits they had extolled for so long.
  • (17) Klopp’s men are now in a considerable position of strength before the second leg at Anfield on 26 January and the only downside is the sudden epidemic of hamstring injuries that has left them with a patched-up back four, Philippe Coutinho back on the treatment table and the makings of a defensive crisis.
  • (18) Furthermore, strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook.
  • (19) Presenting the report , governor Mervyn King highlighted bigger downside risks to growth in the short run than the Bank had previously anticipated.
  • (20) The downside for City was that they, too, looked unusually susceptible at the back and Pellegrini was quite restrained when he said it “could easily have been 7-3”.

Downward


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Downwards
  • (a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
  • (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
  • (a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
  • (2) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
  • (3) In this study downward gaze was more severely disturbed than upward gaze.
  • (4) Business rates: pressure grows for total rethink on controversial tax Read more Meanwhile the downwards press on aggregate council funding is unremitting.
  • (5) downward occupational and downward social drift, premature retirement and achievement of the expected social development.
  • (6) In all the RIAs, the dose-response curves obtained on delayed addition by 24 to 48 h of labeled antigens (curves B), were shifted downwards and to the left of those obtained on simultaneous addition of the reagents (curves A), resulting in improved sensitivity of the assay.
  • (7) A downward protraction force produced relatively uniform stress distributions, indicating the importance of the force direction in determining the stress distributions from various orthopedic forces.
  • (8) Pregnant women showed an overall downward trend in susceptibility to rubella (from 4.2% at the beginning of 1984 to 3.0% at the end of 1986), and a similar decline was seen in the two other categories.
  • (9) Put simply, there would have to be evidence that ultra-low oil prices are having only a temporary downward impact on inflation and have helped disguise upward pressure on wages caused by falling unemployment.
  • (10) With systole there is downward (caudal) flow of CSF in the aqueduct of Sylvius, the foramen of Magendie, the basal cisterns and the dorsal and ventral subarachnoid spaces while during diastole, upward (cranial) flow of CSF in these same structures is seen.
  • (11) The company's value lies in its FM licence for London, with the audience for its national AM licence spiralling downwards in recent years.
  • (12) Although the muscles of untreated children also showed shifts of mean frequency to lower frequency values as a function of time, there was a greater downward shift of mean frequency in those treated with functional appliances.
  • (13) Assuming no future environmental or lifestyle changes, the upward trend in age-adjusted mortality rates, which averaged 2 to 3% per annum since 1950, is projected to discontinue and bend downward by the second decade of the 21st century.
  • (14) That does not mean that natural ice variability cannot bring it back again, but the trend, we think, will be downward."
  • (15) These findings suggest that the response to a downward shift of frequency with an amplitude increase results from new activation due to an apical extension of the envelope of the traveling wave and thus represents the activity in a restricted area of the basilar membrane.
  • (16) The technique consists of wide undermining of supranasal and paranasal skin, use of composite auricular grafts from the ear to lengthen the upper lateral cartilages, use of a chondromucosal septal flap for lengthening the septum, and postoperative downward taping to assure adequate stretching of dorsal skin for the first-stage procedure.
  • (17) The virus initially appeared within certain keratinocytes, sometimes surrounded by keratinocytes whose surfaces were also positive for the antigens, in the lower epidermal layers including the hair follicles, and then extended upward to the entire epidermis and downward to the sebaceous glands 1-2 days later, when no macroscopic skin lesion was seen.
  • (18) Erythrocyte sedimentation highly increased leucocyte retention in vertical columns with a downward flow, whereas in slightly tilted columns with an upward flow, the retention was reduced.
  • (19) Chorismate mutase was also inhibited by prephenate, which caused downward double-reciprocal plots and a Hill coefficient of n = 0.7, evidence for negative cooperativity.
  • (20) The Saudis and other Gulf states still support rebel fighting formations – as much because of inertia and hostility to Iran as anything else – but western backing is on a downward trajectory as concerns mount about the risks of blowback from al-Qaida-linked groups.