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It seemed then that the tennis age of Roger Federer was at an end, driven down by the new and irresistible force of Rafael Nadal.

One of the main tasks is to evaluate cost efficiency to ensure that costs are being driven down through the contract duration .

But, over all, sales and construction have been flat for two years, while prices, driven down by foreclosures, are plumbing new depths.

Notebooks have been relatively high-margin products since the price of desktop PCs was driven down.

"Expectations have been driven down to extremes, and the beginnings of a global economic recovery are evident. "

All this competition has driven down prices from around $3 per minute to less than 10 cents.

Inflation hawks argue that the rate of rise in the prices of everything else should be driven down.

All you could see were the heads of the pins, but the pins were driven down into her face.

In the past two years, the newspaper said, China has mastered the technology and driven down the costs.

Yields in many of these markets were driven down by hopes that they would, in time, converge with those in mature European markets.

The Fed's announcement has pushed down long-term interest rates, and that in turn has driven down mortgage rates.

Together they have driven down costs and brought about consolidation across the industry.

Then, they have driven down the price of bank shares, dealing vicious blows to the City's noblest banks.

Roads have cut transport times, driven down costs in some places and made industry more competitive.

Morocco's increase in imports has also driven down prices for farmers which also increases the migration to cities.

The recovery in profits has driven down the historic price-earnings ratio on most markets.

Today, demand by middle-class buyers is surging as salaries rise and car prices, driven down by competition, plummet.

That has driven down the liquidity premium in the bond market (and pushed yields lower).

The global economic slowdown has driven down demand for oil, pushing crude prices to levels not seen since the spring of 2007.

One would expect fees to be driven down remorselessly.

There is scant evidence that wages are driven down by multinationals, nor that they help perpetuate indefinitely bad working conditions.

Six nations have slipped backwards, as AIDS or an ailing economy has driven down life expectancy and wealth.

They are not much keener on the Kindle, an e-reader made by Amazon, which has driven down book prices and cannot carry advertising.

I've just driven down from Salt Lake City, through the desert of Utah and Nevada.

For now, the Fed's move has driven up Treasury prices and driven down mortgage rates.

They're being driven down by slackening demand overseas.

And We shall drive the sinners to Hell, like thirsty cattle driven down to water.

But the Fed decided that productivity improvements had driven down the NAIRU and so left policy on hold.

In one segment of the 45-minute video, which was edited down to five minutes before broadcast, a mining vehicle is driven down a tunnel.

A trebling of Hong Kong's monetary base since 2009 has driven down interest rates to historic lows and fuelled mortgage lending.

The birds had been driven down into the corner the day before by some shooting-party;

Toyota's global sales fell 4 per cent last year, driven down by a 15 per cent plunge in the US and declines in Japan and western Europe.