Alexander Rose came up with this idea of a spiraloid tower with continuous sloping ramps.

It does not have to be imposed from the top downwards.

Geneticists will know this, but every year since, it's been revised downwards.

Then he will look downwards, and will see him in the depths of Hell.

Then he will look downwards, and will see him in the depths of Hell.

And We made the upside there of downwards, and We rained on them stones of baked clay.

And We made the upside there of downwards, and We rained on them stones of baked clay.

Then (remember) when they both submitted to Allah s command, and Ibrahim lay his son facing downwards. (The knife did not hurt Ismail)

Then (remember) when they both submitted to Allah s command, and Ibrahim lay his son facing downwards. (The knife did not hurt Ismail)

We finally settled on a shape that was the proportion of the Concertgebouw with the sloping outside walls, which the acoustician said were crucial to this and later decided they weren't, but now we have them.

Irreversibility and verifiability (Steps 5 and 6) To maintain the credibility of the undertaking, movement towards the elimination of nuclear weapons needs to be exclusively in one direction downwards.

The results are showing independent monitoring by the World Bank and other organizations show that in many instances the trend is downwards in terms of corruption, and governance is improving.

The basic concept is simple At the surface, a wave propagating upward from the interior is reflected back downwards by the steep change in the density of the gas at the Sun apos s surface.

Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, once famously pinned the whole US current account deficit on a global savings glut. But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the upward trend in global growth.

As indicated in paragraph 12 of the report, the recommendation of the International Civil Service Commission on a 20 per cent reduction in the staff assessment scale would entail a net downwards adjustment of 43 million under section 35, Staff assessment, of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007.

The weighted midpoint in table 4 represents the sum of the weighted membership, population and contribution factors, and the weighted range is calculated as 15 per cent upwards and downwards (but not less than 415 points up and down (4.8 times 86.37), with the upper limit being not less than 1,209 points (14 times 86.37).

According to the International Monetary Fund, the world economy should have grown by 4.4 in 2011, and should grow by 4.5 in 2012. In fact, the latest figures from the World Bank indicate that growth reached just 2.7 in 2011, and will slow this year to 2.5 a figure that may well need to be revised downwards.

It is also a non static concept, as estimates of reserves will generally be revised upwards or downwards as additional geologic or engineering data become available, as technology improves, and or as economic conditions (such as oil prices and production costs) change. In fact, the bulk of recent growth in world reserves is due not to new discoveries, but mainly to reserve growth and improved recovery rates.