Definition of Lowering

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Definition of Lowering
	Lowering of Lower of Lower Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. Related Definitions: And, As, Dark, Gloomy, Lower, Lowering, Of, Or, Sky, Sullen, Threatening

Lowering Quotations

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas Sowell

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
Arne Jacobsen

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
David Herbert Lawrence

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
Birch Bayh

In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.
Jerry Costello

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
Bob Ney

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.
Joseph Hume

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
Dick Morris

Lowering Translations

lowering in French is baissant
lowering in German is senkend, senkende
lowering in Spanish is amenazador

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