And the downward path of his life had started even before the peak was visible.

Whether the age will resume its downward path is a matter of debate.

That simple truth explains much about the recent downward path of the stock market.

The winged boy took the downward path at a run.

His upward course showed a speed that the average man could not have made along a downward path.

But there the Government stepped in to keep poverty rates on a downward path.

He later wrote that "they began, indeed, to look down upon me as one on the downward path".

Something had sent him on the downward path which, as yet, hadn't ended.

He was on a downward path, and I rescued him.

That downward path has continued during the last two years.