How To Use Downside In A Sentence

Benecken characterized the entire hacking case as "ultramodern" and said that, in a way, it exemplified the "downside" of today's digital age "that can easily been taken advantage of by savvy youths with those skills and a lot of time. Hackers Allegedly Steal New Gaga Songs, Rumored Ke$ha Sex Photo
In a horizontal plane, a square has an upside and a downside.
The downside is that the shape is less convenient for packing bulky items. Times, Sunday Times
The reward is tremendous weight and presence; the downside emotional crudity.
The company also represented that they had helped it to hedge downside risk.

On the downside, Barclays fell 3.8% as investors mulled the significance of Goldman's earnings disappointment. U.S. Earnings, ASML Sour Mood in Europe
On the downside, this dependency on biography and history means that sometimes the tales do not stand in their own right.
But the downside is you're increasingly impatient. Times, Sunday Times
As we enter what is sure to be a long period of uncertainty—a gantlet of lost jobs, dwindling assets, home foreclosures and two continuing wars—the downside of stress is certainly worth exploring.
He then goes on to say that there are "no meaningful downsides to irradiation", no more than milk pasteurization, that is. This July 4th Cook Your Irradiated Beef How You Like It
DOWNSIDE You will need to like gadgets - the lighting and audio system is controlled by tablet. Times, Sunday Times
The downsides are the lack of a rear camera and card slot to expand the 16GB memory. Times, Sunday Times
'In short, we can see if the VIX has' overshot 'to the downside relative to changes in other cross asset risk metrics. FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten
The downside of producing one of the highlight collections of last season is the pressure to do it again. Times, Sunday Times
But it's not all downside - the prospect of big penalties discourages any company with a good reputation from entering to compete with us. Times, Sunday Times
Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
Almost, because fund expenses act as a drag on the upside and as a slight accelerator on the downside.
To get the downsides out of the way first, our test sample was very picky with the hard drives we used.
Downside A little pricey for only one bedroom. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of such a vivid imagination is that the negatives can get very powerful as well. Times, Sunday Times
There is a downside to leaving it a while, the trees will have leafed up and you won't see so far, but I would wait.
The only downside is the face-ache you'll get from all the laughing. The Sun
Downside Outdoor areas are paved and the location is not that convenient for the town centre. Times, Sunday Times
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. Steve Jobs
Centralizing security responsibilities has the downside of making our security more brittle, by instituting a commonality of approach and a uniformity of thinking.
The downside of the book is that it is written in a rather boring style.
The downside of the Catholic approach is that it can tend to dismiss all appeals to living discipleship as emotivism.
The downside is that some rooms remain authentically poky, with poor views or no balconies. Times, Sunday Times
That's why the shares look like a decent punt with reasonable protection against the downside risk of a modest slip back in the price of oil and no new exploration successes.
Digital cell phones offer more security, but the downside is that they have less power.
But in the Sony case, the Supreme Court quite clearly saw that, in a world where technological developments made copying easier, the idea of contributory infringement in copyright could be used to suppress or control entire technologies that seemed, in the logic of 20/20 downside vision, to pose a threat to the copyright holder. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
The downside to this repair is that the window will have a slightly lower insulating value than it had before the glass fogged over, but this will cost much less than replacing the window. Reuben's Home Inspection Blog
But even the downsides should not be interpreted as whingeing.
DOWNSIDE The reception rooms are comfortable but lack a chic decor. Times, Sunday Times
South said, hopefully, that Checchi may discover a downside to early advertising.
The Downside is I didn't win lotto. $20 million would have been nice I guess. 614 - swings and round about
I got hungry and walked in uphill to the road and as my head got up enough to see the downside of the ridge another hunter on the opposite side in his tree stand had his rifle pointing right at my chest. What is your closest call to a bad experience while hunting?
Instead of looking at the downside of things, when you walk into the fairway and find your drive in a divot, look on the positive side.
If there are downsides, the most obvious is the time all this connecting takes up. Times, Sunday Times
Undoubtedly, there will be downsides to enlargement of the EU and the introduction of the new mechanisms that are being brought in on voting, etc to facilitate this.
DOWNSIDE: The galley kitchen is rather small and narrow for a family property. Times, Sunday Times
DOWNSIDE The pools and the garden will require some upkeep. Times, Sunday Times
Distro helps a LOT of us indie peeps get noticed and there is NO downside to that.
But playing the villain had its downside for Larry. The Sun
The only downside is that it doesn't cleanse or remove make-up. Times, Sunday Times
DOWNSIDE Only one bedroom upstairs with another downstairs and a third in the annexe. Times, Sunday Times
The only downside is that she is still painfully shy. Times, Sunday Times
That said, the sporty T5 version can thump and bang over bad bumps, the downside of its quicker, meatier responses and extra grip.
Dlr's present retreat fm 91.92 suggests price wud continue to 'gyrate' nr term established range of 91. 28-92.08 n downside bias is seen for weakness to 91.40, however, only below indicated intra-day low (AUS) wud yield re-test of y'day's 90.97 low. FXstreet.com
Downside: not advisable when meeting his parents - lack of eye contact looks evasive. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of honouring a man seen by many in the US as a brutal dictator is felt to outweigh any diplomatic benefit. Times, Sunday Times
On three occasions, this strategy has served him well, but his dog funds show the downside of this approach.
The downside of living here, of course, is that it is expensive.
However, the downside is that the laminate may separate from the wood because the particle board responds to temperature and pressure changes by swelling and shrinking.
Unemployment, inflation and greater inequality are often the downside of a market economy.
Despite the potential benefits, there's a downside to standardizing on a single software platform.
Aggressive pyramiding of more and more units had a downside.
There has been a slight downside to the home-theater boon for retailers.
Downside: not advisable when meeting his parents - lack of eye contact looks evasive. Times, Sunday Times
Downside The garden is secluded but you only get a small courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of a moratorium is that when it is lifted, payments are bunched up and the cost of borrowing could rise, meaning countries will find it even harder reduce their debt.
Lack of school choice is sometimes seen as the downside of rural life, but it ensures that schools are truly mixed in terms of socio-economic background. Times, Sunday Times
The downside is that if the umbilical connection to the internet is lost, there's no local persistent storage.
Still, you tend to forget the downsides and focus on the positive.
And though there are many annoying downsides to this vote-to-get-free-shit political system, one of the upsides is that what seems pretty ok to most defines justice. Matthew Yglesias » How Waterboarding Was Done
The minor downsides are the relative infrequency (every 30 minutes outside peak times) and the inexplicable fact that it stops dead at 8pm every night. Finding Cheap Airport Transfers From Australian Airports | Lifehacker Australia
Whilst it is great that you can just wander into a pharmacy and buy all the cheap drugs you want and self-medicate with whatever you think you need, there can be a downside to all this.
Downside The garden is secluded but you only get a small courtyard. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of the online boom is the worry that historians will lose a documentary record.
The downside is that reservoirs and dams are big, intrusive and expensive. Times, Sunday Times
The biggest downside of this option is cost. Christianity Today
But the human passion for knowledge and discovery, as I've said, always has a downside.
The downsides include no electricity or water and the front door is a concrete hatch in the corner of a muddy field.
The downside of such excellent economic performance is that virtually any alternative scenario will represent a deterioration.
One of the downsides of the digital age is that practical jokers have become far more ambitious. Times, Sunday Times
DOWNSIDE: Beware the low doorways. Times, Sunday Times
The downside's that after such a climactic event, there's still an hour to go.
A major downside to sole proprietorships and partnerships is that they lack liability protection. Setting Up a Business Structure
The downside of such excellent economic performance is that virtually any alternative scenario will represent a deterioration.
Unfortunately, it looks like the downside wasn't evaluated as thoroughly: Leno's lower ratings at 10: 00 meant diminished ratings for 11: 00 p.m. local station newscasts, an unacceptable price for network affiliates, for whom the newscasts are a cash cow. Jonathan Handel: Mitigation 'Round About Midnight?
It is instructive to look back at just what those who were dubious thought the downside was. Times, Sunday Times
Chachas says no firm should ever be "too big to fail," and if the Risk Monitor believes the downside risk of an institution is too great, the regulator can "decompose" it. Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
The downside to this is that you turn into a cautionary cynic, not trusting anything that comes out of a publisher's mouth and avoiding anything with a sniff of hype.
We had gone to the other side and seen the downside of it all. The Sun
Always take the vehicle for a test drive and, on a used car, make a mental note of any faults or downsides. Times, Sunday Times
But there are downsides – creates ‘effective forks’, which might then lead to code bombs – someone who wants to remerge a fork that has been developed independently for months, and which then affects large parts of the code base. Liveblogging Science 2.0 | Serendipity
There was a clear downside to this approach. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
But the potential downside can be almost unlimited. Times, Sunday Times
The downside is that we have to accept the inevitability of eruptions and earthquakes. Times, Sunday Times
The downside was his sudden accumulation of wealth as tech stocks soared and the attention it brought. Times, Sunday Times
Only downsides are the dodgy tan lines. The Sun
SPVs are a form of financial engineering-based on the as - sumption of rising share prices-and use a ring-fenced mechanism whereby a lender takes downside risks when things go wrong. ANC Daily News Briefing
We see more downside than upside. Times, Sunday Times
Downside of business laptops is that they look dull and lack high end graphic cards. Laptop-Reliability Study Highlights The Most Sturdy Laptop Makers | Lifehacker Australia
However, as the upside potential is exacerbated, so is the downside risk.
You spent weeks weighing up the relative downsides of terry nappies versus organic hemp disposables. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of living here, of course, is that it is expensive.
There is a downside, however, to such parity for allcomers. Times, Sunday Times
There are potential downsides to this, however.
The only downside is that it doesn't cleanse or remove make-up. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of honouring a man seen by many in the US as a brutal dictator is felt to outweigh any diplomatic benefit. Times, Sunday Times
But what would be the downside if people with asthma cannot compete? Times, Sunday Times
A downside to the steeply raked windscreen is that taller drivers may find they are sitting just a little too high for comfort.
Of course, on the downside, his trial will be a media circus and the seriousness of the allegations will undoubtedly take second billing to salacious celebrity gossip.
DOWNSIDE The paddock is small. Times, Sunday Times
For eleven months a year we put up with all the downsides: too much traffic, too many people, restaurants behaving as though they are doing us a favour if they let us eat, too much noise, theatres sold out.
So the critics will continue to say that he is too unpredictable and over-elaborate, but that is the downside of genius.
DOWNSIDE The lawns and gardens will require regular upkeep. Times, Sunday Times
The only downside is that driving slowly is difficult and finding a gear to settle into sedate mode is a challenge.
Yet the downside, admittedly, is the risk of overexcitement. Times, Sunday Times
Tackling other people's problems head-on can't always be easy and Margaret admits there can be a downside.
On the downside, the Iceland krona fell 0.9%, the Japanese yen 0.8%, and the Indian rupee 0.8%.
The downside was his sudden accumulation of wealth as tech stocks soared and the attention it brought. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of such excellent economic performance is that virtually any alternative scenario will represent a deterioration.
It was by no means the only downside to another deeply unsatisfactory win. Times, Sunday Times
On the downside, I had projected a deep and profound unhappiness.
Many of the "upsides" to living in Mexico (to us) are "downsides" to others. M�xico rated best place to retire
Wisconsin cranberry farmer and processor Cheryl Urban agreed big buyers can be great news, but she warned of a downside. US Agriculture: Farmers Woo Big Chains Hoping For Menu Placement
The downside of this approach is that a high volume of network traffic can overload a system, and as a result not all packets are analyzed.
Fundamental support for oil prices suggest that further downside is limited in all but the direst of situations," analysts at J.P. Morgan said in a research report. Equity Rally Sends Crude Futures Higher
The benefits of the freedom of movement of players has enhanced the quality of the football on offer and outweighed any downsides. Times, Sunday Times
But it's not all downside - the prospect of big penalties discourages any company with a good reputation from entering to compete with us. Times, Sunday Times
It showed the real downside to the internet. Times, Sunday Times
The only possible downside is that it will probably spark a rush of copycat jukebox musical adaptations. The Sun
The only downside to his job is the anger vented by disappointed fans. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of this is that it makes the parts with the action not as interesting.
The result of this research and subsequent chats with the Downside monks is an unusual image. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of this approach is that it is difficult to measure its efficacy. Times, Sunday Times
The downside is that reservoirs and dams are big, intrusive and expensive. Times, Sunday Times
The potential downside is that patients don't have the time they want to prepare. Times, Sunday Times
Though hendecagons are the most flexible polygons we have examined, there is a downside.
The only real downsides are the price and lack of boot space. The Sun
Like Hopkins, the JM Marquez of 2009 is already a future first-ballot HOF inductee , however, the Mexican technician is probably on the downside of his career.
The benefits of the freedom of movement of players has enhanced the quality of the football on offer and outweighed any downsides. Times, Sunday Times
March 29, 2009 1: 39 PM the length of time the Nigerian judiciary takes to decide a case. i wish i cld change that, it's a downside and makes me not wanna litigate. hello standtall! xoxo What will you like to Change?
No one could contemplate fame these days without knowing beforehand of its downside.
Dianne Feinstein described Reid's sense of humor as "puckish" and Cantwell said that one of the downsides of having Al Franken as a colleague is that the men in the caucus try to out-funny the funny man. Harry Reid, The Man Who Never Says Goodbye
But there's a downside to her fame as she juggles two very different lives on opposite sides of the world. Times, Sunday Times
This upside on service delivery is mirrored by the increased downside if service is bad. Times, Sunday Times
On the downside it's 300 km from the sea, freezing in the winter, sweltering in the summer.
DOWNSIDE The town can get overrun by tourists. Times, Sunday Times
Downside: Long-term adherence. It's hard to stick to a diet that restricts such a big chunk of the food pyramid.
On the downside, middle-aged Mr. Tweedy has been writing songs that have a weakness for breezy comfiness: 2007's Sky Blue Sky even features a song about household chores. Wilco Gets Hefty, Hammy and Happy on Coney Island
For too long, he was caricatured as the playboy with the pun-friendly surname, an image to which he pandered happily until he realised its downside.
The only downside is that I now have nothing to intensively concentrate / focus on to take my mind off Thursday (exam results day).
DOWNSIDE Some people may find this dignified Yorkshire town just a little too twee. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of using a processor is that it "heats" the pastry - to combat this using the coldest water possible keeps the mix cold, so it amalgamates before it heats up too much and starts melting the butter. Archive 2006-02-01
On the downside, the Iceland krona fell 2.4%, the Uruguay peso 1.6%, the Hungarian forint 1.4%, and the Polish zloty 1.4%.
Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
The downside of this approach is a lack of clear leadership.
But for many moms, the downsides are a small price to pay for the increased time they get to spend at home.
But is dehydration the biggest downside of homeworking? Times, Sunday Times
The privatisation of British Rail also had an EU dimension,the downside of which was the separation of ownership of rolling stock and track. Hitchens fans at the Beeb
The downside though, is that it's likely to mean you'll be packing your own shopping if you choose to participate.
DOWNSIDE There is a road between the property and the land. Times, Sunday Times
There are downsides, including lack of POP3 and HTML support, along with a few other gotchas.
There is no downside unless a criminal defense lawyer is saying to him, you may be entrapped in answering a question innocently that may be viewed as not truthful, and you might be indicted.
There are potential downsides in a move to a smaller company. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, women's liberation has given us choices that our grandmothers and even mothers could only dream of, but it has its downside too.
But there is an equally important downside: inbreeding.
The downside of such a vivid imagination is that the negatives can get very powerful as well. Times, Sunday Times
The clear downside is the extra administration and bureaucracy these reforms will bring. Times, Sunday Times
The downside to the car, like most superminis, is interior room for the family of young six-footers.
‘All I see in their future is downside risk and very little upside potential,’ she says.
But, unbelievably, there is a downside to all the harrumphing pomp and pageantry.
On the downside, the Romanian leu sank 2.5%, the Uruguay peso dropped 1.4%, and the Thai baht declined 0.6%.
The road racer's version of tennis elbow and other physical peculiarities are the downside of this progress.
You sensed the only downside to those countless starring roles for his boyhood club was the headlines. The Sun
This lets them compete on price with the big producers from Norway and Chile - but the downside is that the quality of the fish suffers.
Some short covering after pair managed to regain the 87.20 level prompted a recovery in the cross, that reached 87.60 zone before retreating slightly back; hourly indicators are heading back south, as well as 4 hours ones, suggesting the upside will remain limited; to the downside, a short term ascendant trend line will be key as only a break under 86.70/80 support area should confirm a new leg down in the cross FXstreet.com
There are acidified oceans, melting polar ice, oceanic dead zones, dying coral reefs, vanishing species, on and on, all of which are due in some measure to the downside of science and technology. Dr. Larry Dossey: Do We Live in a Meaningful Universe?
Our concern is that the downside risks interact and their cumulative impact could weaken the recovery significantly, possibly triggering stagflationary developments in some advanced economies," Mr. Gurria said. OECD Chief Warns on Growth Risks
The only downside is the vigour of the tree, which is weakened by the sap sucking of the coccids.
The one downside is that again, not only does the predictable happy 'ending' happen, it ends up quite comically, which is one of the times it really didn't need to happen. Mania News Feed
The only downside is that the complex joypad manoeuvres make the action fiendishly tough going. Times, Sunday Times
The downside risk is minimal compared to the upside potential.
But yesterday's statement also dialed back the sense of urgency, dropping the "appreciable" from what it said last Tuesday were "appreciable downside risks to growth. Fed Moves to Curb Risk of Recession
The downside, for those who don't like to see their Open venues taken apart, is that the rain will take the fieriness out of the fairways and take some of the unpredictability out of the bounce.
Always take the vehicle for a test drive and, on a used car, make a mental note of any faults or downsides. Times, Sunday Times
There is no point in investing in something with downside risk if the upside is subject to punitive tax charges. Times, Sunday Times
The downside is that all we have here is a very long, very po-faced, mystic, pseudo-religious battle between our old mates good and evil.
Is there a downside to becoming an instant millionaire?
Of course, the downside is that the manager may think you're a zoophile. Traveling With two very small doges
The big downside of the site is that you cannot buy funds. Times, Sunday Times
The downside of this is that the noise of running a tap, cleaning your teeth or doing the washing-up can blot out words and phrases leaving you astonished or bewildered by what you think you heard.
The virtually inevitable downside of such a long-term focus is that it requires, to some extent, that we sacrifice depth for breadth.
As a downside, they're rather hot and unwieldy, being difficult to remove in a hurry.
The other simple explanation is that Fox News can afford to play hardball because it has a ready-made replacement on hand: former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, a host with a similar appeal to Beck but with none of the downsides. Glenn Beck's future at Fox News under threat | Richard Adams
DOWNSIDE The grade II* listing may limit an extensive refurbishment. Times, Sunday Times
The only downside is that it uses long pushrods.
Greater creativity too, sometimes ambidexterity, occasionally Dyslexia and/or Asperger's as downsides. What's it Like?
But it has a downside: one of them would lose, and Warren would have to decide whether it is worth devaluing one of his commodities to advance the other.
there is a downside even to motherhood
Having a residential campus, however, has its downsides - like the campus food, which apparently was, and still is, less than appetizing.
One downside of group dining is that chemical signals from the larvae and their frass can attract parasitoids.
DOWNSIDE The large lawn gardens. Times, Sunday Times
On the downside, the program requires a relatively powerful computer and a huge chunk of disk space to run.
My sense is that you're going to do this anyway, so the question is really what can you do to avoid the worst possible downside scenario.
The downside of producing one of the highlight collections of last season is the pressure to do it again. Times, Sunday Times
Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, we developed a set of hypotheses involving downside risk, return, and organizational slack.

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