How To Use Downer In A Sentence
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People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
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The landowner instantly conceives a dislike of the dog and demands that she be gotten rid of.
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Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
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What a downer that guy is!
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We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife.
Times, Sunday Times
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The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
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Family forest landowners (often known as tree farmers) take pride in managing their lands.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara
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Farmers had been a depressed class, paying uneconomic rents to impecunious landowners.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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For me it's uppers, for you it's downers, but either way, it's the same thing.
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Therefore, George advocated allowing landowners to keep a small percentage of the land rent, mainly to avoid the prospect of having all unimproved land revert to the commons.
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The minister has warned that dumpers and landowners face severe sanctions under the Waste Management Act 1996.
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Where there is an incursion into the airspace of a landowner within the reasonable height then this prima facie gives rise to claim to trespass:
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All farmers, landowners and parish councils in the National Park can apply for grants from the money which has come through Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency.
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No doubt, the intention of the landowner throughout is to hold a market monthly on these Saturdays.
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(A striking example of this hypocrisy was the solicitude displayed by the Russian landowners last year, their efforts to combat the famine which they had caused, and by which they profited, selling not only bread at the highest price, but even potato haulm at five rubles the dessiatine (about 2 and four - fifths acres) for fuel to the freezing peasants.)
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
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To prevent beaches from disappearing, landowners build rock walls called groins perpendicular to the coast.
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Also the hiring out by a rural landowner of allotment gardens can cause planning problems.
Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
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They also had about half of the pharmacy at home - as far as mental drugs, mostly downers, are concerned and that was something like a magnet to me, a little private pharmacy.
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Max's paternal grandfather was a member of the Red Army and had to carefully hide the fact his wife's parents had been landowners.
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The authority of the early medieval Church in England was no different to that of any other landowner.
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The landowner insisted on a high standard of landscaping.
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At subsequent Forest Eyres in other counties the judges were clearly determined to raise large sums by fining the forest landowners.
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For the landowners, an eye-catching stadium would offer an attractive catalyst for the wider development of the area.
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Two of the Task Force's twenty recommendations were that government should not impose any extraordinary tax on non-resident landowners or limit the size of their holding.
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Sounds like the boys had some fun but If you ask the “Debby Downers” from women advocacy groups like the National Organization for Women, the games lack of estrogen is unacceptable.
Coyote Blog » 2009 » October
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To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson.
GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
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Since local farmers preferred keeping all unplowed land in grass, absentee landowners votes were needed to allow Kriss to expand his operations.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara
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It looks like if this passes in Utah then those landowners should have to buy property the waterway is on and the water that flows onto the property.
On Stream Rights In Utah
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Robert Balfour, the convenor of the Scottish Landowners Federation, said it would be irresponsible to walk through a growing food crop.
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Girls were significantly more likely to have used heroin, PCP, anti-anxiety drugs (used without a prescription), such as Valium or Xanax, and downers.
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The Forestry Commission is urging Yorkshire landowners to think twice before felling trees to ensure their actions do not fall foul of the law.
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The only people who should be unhappy if shale gas takes off in Britain are the big landowners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taking the lead are small landowners or Western farmers who make appealing pleas to be left alone to enjoy their property and take care of it conscientiously.
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So… after a few quiet sundowners and pleasant advertising industry banter in the foyer, we padded into the concert hall for the show.
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Landowners in Winterbourne Monkton had an Act of Parliament passed in 1813 to enable them to enclose common land in the parish.
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Furthermore, to take precautions against uninvited guests was thought too onerous a burden to place on landowners.
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The failure to laugh signifies in the peasant or the Frenchman a politeness that exceeds his intelligence, in the landowner or the Englishman an excessive rigidity, and in the policeman or the German a surfeit of power.
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That's one of the best properties of downers, you don't worry much.
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Local landowners are well aware of their rights over land and highly litigious when they are aggrieved.
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In the province of South Trondhjem the great increase of the indebtedness of the landowners is ascribed in part to the subdivision of property by the creation of _Myrmoend_, literally 'bogmen'
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
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Another downer is that nicotine chewing gum gives you hiccups.
Times, Sunday Times
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The US Senate last month approved language that would ban downer animals from being used in the human food supply, but the measure was dropped from a final bill because of House opposition.
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The rural guards, the official thugs, the foremen, and the landowners used to say that, and yet they were precisely the ones who really wanted to communize women, as the Manifesto of Karl Marx said, because if they could they communized others: wives.
CASTRO SPEECH ON ANNIVERSARY OF MARTI'S BIRTH
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The downer is that you need to be a goofy Hyperspace member to check it out online otherwise scroll down the page past all the nerdy posts to see US airtimes.
November 2004
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It was no longer divided between the small élite of landowners and a mass of peasants and the poor.
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To raise money for his bankrupt treasury, Juárez sold off lands that had been expropriated from the Church to hacendados (big landowners) who had supported the Liberal cause.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez
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The main beneficiary of it was the agricultural worker and the principal loser the landowner.
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My brother was ‘a naughty boy’ and dabbled with drugs, nothing grotesquely bad, just uppers and downers, but we think one day he got carried away and accidentally took too many of one sort or the other.
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Elsewhere, many landowners funded their own troupes of serf dancers, performing folk and ballet.
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With agrarian reform in the air, the landowners did not feel disposed to invest in their land.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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The first U.S. mad cow was a downer animal, not able to walk due to a uterine rupture while calving.
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Simply banning downers will not fix the problem.
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After the expiry of the lease period, the landowner will be at his discretion to convert the land into a shopping complex or a multiplex.
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Under the previous administration, rich landowners were given generous tax concessions.
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And what sort of landowner would refuse to play host to a concours d' élégance at which owners of magnificent chariots - Lagondas, Delages, Rolls-Royces - could admire each other's turnout?
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The project was set up on the initiative of a local landowner.
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However, these villages' customary landowner clans refused the dam's construction, outlining several reasons.
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He said that the rent-seeking practice of landowners resulted in "very short-term vision, resulting in poor investments in land".
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Behind the scenes, of course, Elvis's descent was intensifying at rapid speed, helped along by a dependence on uppers, downers and painkillers.
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Landowners who did not hunt were still expected to plant and maintain gorse coverts.
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Another is the ring-necked parakeet, which is spreading so fast that the government has just allowed landowners to shoot them without a licence.
Top stories from Times Online
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Their action can only serve to harden the attitude of landowners.
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Witherspoon then dug in the knife a little more, calling her smooch session with Pattinson "a little bit of a downer.
Judy Kurtz: This Week's Shining and Falling Stars: Lady Gaga and Reese Witherspoon
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We are drinking sundowners by the Land Cruiser and musing that, if we set off on foot now, we'd still be nowhere in a week's time.
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Many landowners believed that gauchos were ill-suited for agricultural labor and favored the hiring of foreigners.
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No state is better acquainted with the porcine menace than Texas, where more than 2 million rampaging hogs cost landowners some $52 million in damages annually, and where lawmakers recently debated a bill that would have allowed private hunters to gun down pigs from the air.
The Boar War
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He was one of the largest landowners in England, in terms of acreage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bill still gives new powers to landowners to suspend rights of access to land and water for management reasons.
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mortgage, literally a “dead pledge”; a pledge by which the landowner remained in possession of the property he staked as security. mortmain, a statute restricting the conveyance of land to the “dead hand” of a religious organization oyez, often calqued as hear ye!,
The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
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The local landowners and farmers are vary protective of these spaces.
Smithsonian Mag
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Big landowners, he says, will no longer be able to ignore local protests.
Times, Sunday Times
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For divorced people, Christmas can be a downer.
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The bulls were raised by wealthy landowners although we do not know whether, or to what extent, this was a profitable activity.
A Social History of Modern Spain
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I think she will find that wealthy landowners earn significant amounts of money from many things, which the rest of us end up paying for.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once you find a comfortable place to sit outdoors and have a morning cup of coffee or an evening sundowner, a funny thing happens.
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They were families of landowners and notaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jeers there were from the Opposition, who knew that Mr Downer had failed to deny that either he or his Office were involved.
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There are two Pagan landowners in this metro area who host regional festivals and rent their properties to individuals and groups for special rituals.
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Then there were the immeasurably proud nouveau landowners, to say nothing of former bankrupts turned CIPs (Commercially Important People, don't you know!).
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It just caused a huge downer on the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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This resistance is also widespread among private landowners, and, according to an AP article a few weeks ago, "About the same time, the government offered to pay some property owners $3,000 in exchange for permission to conduct surveys for the project.
FINDING THE EMPTY SPACES IN IMMIGRATION RHETORIC
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They gained support from the Indians and landless peasants by promising to end the abuses committed by landowners.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara
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He was educated at a hedge-school, and on coming to man's estate, obtained a situation as steward to a neighbouring landowner.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
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She said that wealthy landowners wanting to cash in on generous subsidies were helping to drive the boom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The readers who were huffing and puffing in Downer's defence, or accusing you of gutter journalism, most likely have their snouts in various troughs themselves.
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The camper says that landowners who need eight hundred hands print up thousands of handbills and thousands of workers show up.
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The scheme was devised in response to a request from a landowner for projects to enhance the wildlife value of his land.
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Both of these countries have wealthy white landowners whose procurement of the land was with duress against the indigenous people.
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And they identified it because the cow was what they call a downer cow.
CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006
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The centrepiece of these reforms was addressed to the issue of peasant landownership.
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Advisors will also be working with individual landowners, helping to improve the image of water voles and thus decrease the use of rodenticides.
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The differences between the landowners and the conservationists were irreconcilable from the start.
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Article 110 The consent of the dien-holder shall be obtained before the landowner creates a mortgage over the same land after the creation of the dien.
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A number of the stories are downers in which Faustian bargains of one kind or another produce predictable results.
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DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - Susan King of Mount Prospect, Ill. came away disappointed from her fifth job fair last week.
HUFFPOST HILL - Ensign Investigation Won't End
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Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent.
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The marina at Troon is the perfect place to sip a few sundowners as you watch the yachts come in, and Culzean Castle is an astounding place to visit, with spectacular views and fabulous gardens.
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Landowners, too, can be held responsible should someone decide to discard their trash on private property.
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The third film of even planned trilogies is often a downer compared to the original, with The Return of the King (the final chapter in The Lord of the Rings cycle) being the most obvious example of this; it is a good film, just not the cinematic greatness Peter Jackson gave us with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
January « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Tolstoy set out for Germany in 1857, anxious to study social conditions that he might learn how to raise the hapless serfs of Russia, bound, patient and inarticulate, at the feet of landowners, longing for independence, perhaps, when they suffered any terrible act of injustice, but patient in the better times when there was food and warmth and a master of comparatively unexacting temper.
Heroes of Modern Europe
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In the early eighteenth century, rents were falling and landowners had little incentive to press for short lets.
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For landowners, industrialists, financiers, the Catholic Church, and the military who witnessed the consummation of the Russian alliance in the state visit of Nicholas II to France in October 1896, it was an Indian summer.
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This allows the landowner to realise cash by selling machinery and cuts the working capital requirement without having to profit share.
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The Scottish borderers played a major role both as chief landowners and as undertenants during the plantation of Ulster under James the First.
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We made just 3 stops, and than shot down the middle track as an express all the way to Downer's Grove.
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The peasantry in 1300 were living in a world where land was scarce and opportunities for economic advancement were limited by the tight controls of the landowners.
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Common law doesn't oblige landowners to fence off their land.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are other problems with pacing (that whole loony inflatable life raft scene), but "Willie" is the main downer for the whole movie.
Ken's Nostalgic Indiana Jones Adventure - Part 2! « FirstShowing.net
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Government bodies since the 1950s have pushed landowners and offered subsidies to plough up or lime the heather to allow the spread of grass.
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There have been sightings of the boys in the Northwich and Cuddington areas and police are appealing to landowners, walkers and ramblers to help track them down.
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Their background was probably very varied, some perhaps landowners, others military men, Roman or barbarian, who had been invited to take control or seized power.
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The knotted serpent and the stag trippant in are derived from the crests respectively of the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Buccleuch, who are the principal landowners - the latter also being Lord of the Manor of Plain Furness.
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His father was a wealthy landowner with holdings up and down the lower Delaware.
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Determined to live up to her new role as genteel landowner, the pop icon is opposing plans to allow ramblers to access her estate.
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It is an offence for a landowner to obstruct a public right of way, and the placing of a new stile, gate or fence can amount to an obstruction, unless it is a replacement of what previously existed.
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The ensuing litany of botched deals, double-crosses and macho showdownery is complicated and, ultimately, exhausting.
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Because this is an older beef cow, and it was what they call a downer cow, meaning it couldn't walk and meat from downer cows is not used in the human food supply.
CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2005
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You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see the negative influence of big landowners at work here.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cost of reforestation, however, has prevented most private landowners from changing the land use on their own.
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Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners.
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Ten years ago people were allowed to reclaim their family farms from the Soviet collectives and, as a result, the country now has a massive three million landowners.
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The resulting exclusionary policies, when practiced by all or most localities, drive landless proles from pillar to post until they become so desperate they will serve landowner-employers for very little.
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‘I don't want to bring a downer on the whole situation because I'm very happy for the Boston Red Sox’ he said.
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The landowner may feel a guilt of sorts when he converts the land into a hunting preserve.
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Having said that, and because I don't wish to be a downer, I must say that I believe that it behoves me to act as an optimist, because the alternative is completely without redeeming features.
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The lapse of time was relevant to the need to consider carefully whether the landowners' interests had been prejudiced by the delay.
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Amidst a plethora of depressing statistics, perhaps the biggest downer is the fact that, for the first time since 1986, no Scot won an event on the European Tour.
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The general parceling out led to the disappearance of the commons when the land not divided among landowners was given to the crown.
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Two years in the Serengeti and 600 hours of footage later, Downer and his team had to edit a film which matched Nye's script.
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Considered one of the 10 worst weeds in the world, the Asia native has prompted states like Georgia to mount herbicidal campaigns, offering free spraying for landowners with infestations.
Plant Invaders
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DVD Focus TK zafg 'Inside Job' 2010 If Charles Ferguson's polemic documentary were merely depressing, it could take its place alongside the dreariest of downer dramas from Bulgaria or the former East Germany.
'Margin Call': Thrills, Chills of Financial Ills
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Lord Romilly's preliminary ruling sent a clear message to all landowners eyeing parcels of seemingly unowned land - commons, wastes, heaths and greens - with intent to develop, exploit or add them to their existing holdings.
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Especially from mid-century, large landowners, ‘heritors’, were given special powers under Scots poor laws; this too may have helped to ensure stringency.
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Nintendo's resident name jotter-downer and kiester-kicker recently divulged to BMO Capital Markets attendees that the Wii is outperforming its rivals when it comes to female gamers.
Evil Avatar
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Benton Soil & Water Conservation District is one of Oregon's 45 Districts assisting landowners in resource conservation.
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Despite all the balloons set free by Turkish Cypriot President Talat, and indeed to a certain extent by U.N. secretary-general's special advisor for Cyprus Alexander Downer, that there has been some very important convergences in the positions of the two sides in the talks on governance and power sharing, in reality as was demonstrated with the "uproar" in Greek Cypriot politics and media as regards the visit of the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Hurriyet Dailynews
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I don't think that put a downer on his night though.
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He was supported by the large landowners, which necessarily limited the scope of agrarian reforms.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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They are dying out because the wild flowers on which their caterpillars feed are being killed off by farmers, landowners and foresters.
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The main beneficiary of it was the agricultural worker and the principal loser the landowner.
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The rural guards, the official thugs, the foremen, and the landowners used to say that, and yet they were precisely the ones who really wanted to communize women, as the Manifesto of Karl Marx said, because if they could they communized others: wives.
CASTRO SPEECH ON ANNIVERSARY OF MARTI'S BIRTH
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Police also want to hear from landowners who have a gate made of tubular steel, which is set back from the road, on their grounds.
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All rural landowners, big or small, will be affected.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1254, local landowner Richard Rochelle was granted a charter to hold a market in the village from the reigning monarch of the day, Henry III.
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The power of the landowners waned during this period.
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She claimed that the landowner could have built his home on land further back from the road on land which he had now sold.
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The Diggers put their beliefs into practice by manuring fields and sowing crops on wastelands in Surrey until they were driven away by local landowners.
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The only downer was the trio of uninspiring veg which came with all the main courses and a blanket ban on chips: no one wants new potatoes with a steak, but they promise that a new kitchen by Easter will sort that.
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Most frequently it is a fat Mexican-Spanish hacendado, landowner and big farmer, who is represented with his tight trousers, sticking-out belly, and huge upturned moustaches.
The Plumed Serpent
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That's what you call a knock-downer," said Fleda laughing.
Queechy
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Although only labor and capital participate in the process, the income therefrom must be apportioned into three shares: as wages to labor, as interest to capital, and as rent to the landowner.
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The only downer was that the durian we bought was an utter disappointment - durian smells bad, sure, but it shouldn't taste like a combination of joggers' socks and onions.
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Most residents borrowed money from relatives, banks, moneylenders, or the landowner, who charged 10 percent interest per month.
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Five features you may have missed in Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Spanish judge throws out criminal case against DS flash cart seller LittleBigPlanet Creator's Edition DLC delayed, producer apologizes Nintendo's resident name jotter-downer and kiester-kicker recently divulged to BMO Capital Markets attendees that the Wii is outperforming its rivals when it comes to female gamers.
Joystiq
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The largest landowner in town, will have to come up with $8,000 to pay back taxes on his 175 dunams, a sum he doesn't have.
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Yet put them together with a kind of pitiless precision and gleeful tendency to turn every downer into a music rave-up, and you've got yet another entry in what has become a really impressive body of work.
Making A 'Big To-Do' About Life's Important Things
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Landowners became anxious not just about the birds but about access to their habitat.
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The weather was a bit of a downer.
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Landowners became anxious not just about the birds but about access to their habitat.
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Landowners along the river said they were unsure what steps to take with damaged pastureland, but there were fewer complaints about Exxon Mobil's response to the spill than a similar meeting last week.
Exxon to drain oil from failed pipeline
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It sounds all too much like the previous case, with the council using its powers as landowner and granter of planning permission to try to force through highly unpopular schemes.
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The volunteers were prepared to offer advice to local farmers and landowners on tree planting schemes as well as local schools.
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For example, governments can try to overcome the information problems associated with landowners and renters.
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The eighth century had seen the regional kingdoms and larger monasteries of Britain and Ireland became major landowners and economic powers.
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Other members of the group then presented the landowners with various tokens of appreciation, including passes to the Tennessee Aquarium and a framed print of the Barrens topminnow by a renowned fish illustrator.
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Two of the Task Force's twenty recommendations were that government should not impose any extraordinary tax on non-resident landowners or limit the size of their holding.
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With agrarian reform in the air, the landowners did not feel disposed to invest in their land.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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Legally dispossessed, the big landowners have almost everywhere recovered their advantage over the small peasants.
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Globalization and the Crisis in the Western Slipper (... just the word itself - "slipper" - is a downer)
52 entries from February 2007
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Landowners protected their interests by studying land law at the Inns of Court and by appointing qualified stewards to manage estates effectively.
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A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner.
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The purchase of downer cattle for Arby's beef supply is strictly prohibited by the Arby's system.
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The trust has also built artificial holts in which otters can breed, and encouraged farmers, landowners and the public to do the same.
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At Christmas, the van de Kamps made the trip to suburban Downer's Grove and presented Courtney with a t-shirt saying “My other grandma is a grim battleaxe.”
For Some Grandparents, Last Goal is to Be Grandkids' Favorites
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I have never done that, but when I attend a panel, I basically want to hear from each participant more or less equally; for me it was a downer once when one of the panelists kind of hogged the mike and another panelist didn't say very much.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Landowners are turning pasture into racetracks in an effort to boost flagging incomes.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a vogue for the building of follies on the estates of landowners.
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Though the rise of coal mining was critical, the process began when landowners began to think in new ways about forests.
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Farmers and landowners are being urged to save rare arable plants by wildlife conservation charity, The Game Conservancy Trust.
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Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers.
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Everyone in society (except a couple of innocent landowners) gets some benefit, but only a few people bear the cost.
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Before 1776, according to the historical sociologist Michael Kimmel, the perfect man was still a genteel patriarch, a dandified landowner steeped in the codes of the Old World.
Men’s Lib
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Sorry if i sound like I'm on a downer, i didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
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The wealthiest landowners are already benefiting from the inheritance tax exemption on farming land, and most don't need the pocket money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Following a visit to the doctor's, she is on her way to dropping 30 pounds and becoming hooked on the uppers and downers that comprise her diet.
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The ogre became so wealthy by being a great landowner; people had to pay tribute to him to get any-thing.
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But where does this now leave landowners who also face the obligation to fell infected trees?
Times, Sunday Times
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As a landowner, he was actively interested in agricultural improvements.
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If people choose to ingest opium, heroin, cocaine, crack, marijuana, or any of the dozens of uppers, downers, and hallucinogens in common use, let them.
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What kind of mechanization would have been possible if all we had were small landowners?
Fidel Castro Present at Special Assembly Meeting
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This major emotional downer is as raw as it gets, and while it doesn't quite chime with the flip ending, it helps cement this as a powerful and evocative piece of work.
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Participants will include landowners, tradespeople, advisers or expects and business, promoters/investors.
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Obtain landowner permission first, or check your state's regulations if hunting public land.
Make a Trail to Bring Buck Whitetails to You
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Organic changes in the brain of some older people bring about an increase in agitation after dark known as sundowner s syndrome.
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He knew that the ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher.
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The story is autobiographical, and the tyrannical, captious, arbitrary, and selfish landowner is the author's mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva.
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Interest was rarely charged on advances by the temple or wealthy landowners for pressing needs, but this may have been part of the metayer system.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
