This is the case in the coastwise traffic between Atlantic and Gulf ports; where the bulk of the tonnage goes by steamer and at lower rates than by all-rail lines.
Suggestive illustrations of lower rates at the more distant point than are under the circumstances actually "compelled" by competition of routes are to be had.
The progress made during the last year in refunding the public debt at lower rates of interest is very gratifying.
One-third of the national debt has been paid, while much of the other two-thirds has been refunded at lower rates, and these savings of interest and constant economies have enabled us to repeat the satisfying process of more tax reductions.
A uniform national currency has been provided, repudiation frowned down, the national credit sustained under the most extraordinary burdens, and new bonds negotiated at lower rates.
At the conclusion of the war these duties may and should be abolished and reduced to lower rates.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lower rates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
