1) Each firm will face a downward-sloping demand curve.

2) With the downward-sloping supply curve, higher interest rates lead to lower demand and lower supply.

3) That's a strongly downward-sloping term structure.

4) Expected to ship toward the direction of downward-sloping shelf, cargo sliding down under the action of gravity.

5) Then the--so the term structure was downward-sloping until about two and a half years and then it was upward sloping.

6) The thesis constructs an employment decision model based on a downward-sloping labor supply curve, and parses a type employment called by the author as "expenditure-constraint-causing unemployment".