It can also make coking coal from lower-grade coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nippon Steel Plans $1.07 Billion Upgrade] Reference

The tax on lower-grade cigarettes jumped to 36% from 30%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Smokers Get Dire Warning] Reference

But the cigars will be lower-grade than in previous years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parties Skirt Rules on Gifts,] Reference

Talks are continuing for lower-grade coal, the people said.    From Wordnik.com.  [BHP Billiton Agrees to Lower Coal Prices] Reference

Inside, you might also notice the lower-grade radio head unit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just In: 2010 Volkswagen Golf] Reference

Yarn that is labeled “llama” is actually a lower-grade alpaca.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Passion for Knitting] Reference

Phasing out lower-grade subjects increased the requirements for success.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

What is interesting, the quality, lower-grade than what we've seen recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

I've had the flu this week so we're definitely into the lower-grade material here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maybe you're bored...] Reference

GE Capital's consumer portfolio also contains a lot of loans to lower-grade borrowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [GE Investors Get a Peek in Junk Room] Reference

Investors have shunned lower-grade corporate bonds as a result of the global credit crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kospo Global Bonds] Reference

There's a Category 3 storm coming at your city, not a Category 5 storm, a lower-grade storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2009] Reference

Technical problems notwithstanding, even lower-grade 1944 steel cents are very highly demanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [World War 2 Penny Errors Star at ANA Convention, Part 2: $374k Record Price for a Lincoln Cent : Coin Collecting News] Reference

Instead of using premium gas, what's recommended for their car, they might use a lower-grade gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007] Reference

To what extent the lower-grade fuel oils can be used with these vaporizers is yet to be determined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

Earlier this year, Iran began enriching its lower-grade fuel on its own, further alarming Western officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran Launches War Games, Lobbies Against Sanctions] Reference

Of course, she meant the real thing too – not the lower-grade scarves made from viscose or other materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pashmina Store Equals Affordability, Quality, and Style] Reference

Before addressing the children, Mandela chatted to several lower-grade children and asked about their studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The family must be relieved of personal care of its insane, its lower-grade feeble-minded, and its moral idiots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Family and it's Members] Reference

But it uses lower-grade steel and less window-glazing than U.S. cars and has fewer gauges on the instrument panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can China Save GM?] Reference

Coal is conserved by the use of lower-grade fuels, by using waste from the forests, and by substituting water-power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference

Its results have also been hurt by declining gold production because of blockages in some places and lower-grade ore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mine Mishaps Raise Questions on Safety] Reference

Earlier this week, the carrier had agreed that June salaries to about 8,000 lower-grade employees would be paid Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Air India Says Flights Normal Despite Workers Strike] Reference

In early August, the market for auction-rate securities grew skittish as one auction for lower-grade securities failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debt Crisis Hits a Dynasty] Reference

I sprinkle my lower-grade conversations with 'likes' and 'you knows' and 'goes' instead of 'said' -- that sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesley M. M. Blume: Reee-tarded: The Hex Upon our Tongues] Reference

And the overall quality of the market has declined, with exposure to lower-grade derivatives rising from 8 to 18 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Forbes: So even though they are lower-grade companies, you feel that their balance sheets can withstand a sluggish economy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Bob Browne] Reference

The project is based on magnetite, a type of lower-grade iron ore that requires upgrading before it can be used in steel mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citic Iron Project to Get] Reference

ARIN officials recommend that Web site operators enable IPv6 by Jan. 1, 2012 or risk frustrating end users with lower-grade service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Akamai: Why our IPv6 upgrade is harder than Google's] Reference

In Mom's mind, QVC is an upgrade to stores like Target and Kohls that now peddle name-brand products, but with lower-grade materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kristina Grish: Raising High-Brows] Reference

Abdullah Sarafzadeh, a food-industry engineer, said he has started using lower-grade gasoline and commuting on public transportation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iranians, Given No Choice, Adjust to Soaring Prices] Reference

Others are angry at having been downgraded from the 64k streaming that was available for free before March to the lower-grade service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sirius XM’s “free” iPhone app: Even subscribers must pay] Reference

In the second stage, it became possible because of technological improvements to mine lower-grade material bypassed in the first stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical)] Reference

Now the lower-grade BL series Berettas are nice guns, but they aren't exactly collector-hot like, say, a comparable-vintage superposed 20.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Big-Dollar Guns Are Worth The Money] Reference

Not that that's a bad thing -- there's certainly a place for lower-grade hardware.    From Wordnik.com.  [freshnews.org - most clicked links] Reference

The Markit iTraxx Crossover index measuring yields on lower-grade debt has jumped by almost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

We optimize them for high-end devices (iPhone, BlackBerry, Android etc.) and scale across lower-grade devices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wireless Week Headline News] Reference