How To Use Downing In A Sentence

Number Ten Downing Street is the British prime minister's official residence.
Ten days of frenzied reporting had not been stilled by increasingly angry Downing Street statements.
Downing Street last night refused to discuss any British involvement. The Sun
The announcement took Washington and Paris by surprise, but Downing Street had been expecting it.
But Gordon Brown will have been disappointed by Clegg's comments as they appearsto scupper any chance of a Lib-Lab pact that would keep him in Downing Street. Epolitix News

The term "sundowning" refers to a state of confusion at the end of the day and into the night, often leading to a state of increased agitation, activity and even borderline demented behavior. BroadwayWorld.com South Carolina Stories
He was one of three loyalists who went to Downing Street to plead with her to stay on.
It turns out that, just as most infants have a crying jag every afternoon before dinner, parents with dementia experience "sundowning," a late afternoon agitation that can get ugly. Karen Ann Coburn: The Visit
Instead of hard spirits he was going to be downing shot glasses full of beer.
Spurs have already rebuffed twice by after bidding 6m Downing two years ago. The Sun
Inevitably, there is suspicion that the latest internal recasting of the MoD, though triggered by 10 months' work by Lord Levene and the defence reform unit, has also been shaped at the 11th hour by Downing Street's extreme anger at recent unauthorised public complaints by the service chiefs about the sustainability of the Libya mission. Ministry of Defence: Too many chiefs | Editorial
He was back in parliament but there was no chance of moving into 11 Downing Street during this administration.
At the onset of the Second World War, the young diplomat was seconded from the Foreign Office to Number 10 Downing Street. Democracy vs. Hypocrisy
Downing Street denied there had been a hurried overnight redrafting of the text.
Downing Street has so far refused to comment on these reports.
The best illustration of this strange reversal is the curious fate of the Downing Street memo.
And the glamorous lawyer showed she meant business earlier this week when she arrived at a Downing Street reception in a red figure-hugging outfit, upstaging the World Cup heroes in whose honour the reception was held.
More than a quarter of a million people signed a petition that was delivered to Downing Street last month demanding that the fees be banned. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing better than downing a two-four and belting out some hurtin 'tunes. The Prine and Dement Set
The latest piece of flapdoodle concerns Downing Street's plans to dock child benefit from the parents of tearaway children.
That's the message from the arts world, and Downing Street must judge whether it's just a few jumpy luvvies or the revealing response of people whose job is to anticipate and satisfy the public's mood.
Speaking outside Ten Downing Street, she declared that she would fight on.
Downing Street demanded a replacement, insisting that the Prime Minister would only be interviewed by a man.
He drank deep, downing the glass in a single gulp.
The protesters congregated outside parliament before holding a sit-down protest in front of Downing Street.
As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language.
Imagining a universe in which Seixon’s arguments are cogent is a cost-effective alternative to doing drugs … kinda like smoking Norwegian pot by proxy. see his responses pertaining to the downing street memo. btw, tripmaster, i almost went there in my post about wmds, but decided against it. somehow i just knew what his response was going to be. Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science
Most inept alien The "blob" - a giant amoeba which, in the 1953 movie, terrorises the small community of Downington PA. The Guardian World News
The initiative is said to be the brainchild of Downing Street chief of strategy Stephen Carter and is intended to 'humanise' the Prime Minister as his popularity continues to wane. ' John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Manning had been the ambassador to Israel and Nato before moving into Downing Street.
Downing Street rejected the idea. Times, Sunday Times
Downing Street is already working hard to forge ties with Obama. The Sun
The parents of Stephen Downing visit Don Hale, the editor of the Matlock Mercury.
Downing said British ticket touts were an "unwanted export" and were prevalent at sporting and music events around the world, with a close-knit network running sophisticated operations. Olympic Games organisers and police launch crackdown on ticket touts
And they built the family food supply by downing wild, woolly beasts. Times, Sunday Times
Light is especially important in the late afternoon and early evening, when a phenomenon known as sundowning kicks in. Coping With The Darkness
Whether Downing Street's froideur is a harbinger of continuing non-co-operation with Bute House remains to be seen.
She is said to have had the run of Downing Street, until her exclusion in April.
Drugs, of course, have replaced alcohol as the unforgivable sin, and to be found smoking cannabis is considered every bit as serious a crime as downing vintage cognac.
It is targeted at men who drink three pints a day or women downing two glasses of wine a day. The Sun
This bombshell Downing Street conspiracy was hatched in secret and denied in the face of indisputable evidence. The Sun
The obvious interpretation put on each ministerial speech has been vigorously denied by Downing Street.
He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule, condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.
He is strongly opposed to NHS care being opened up to "any willing provider" – a key element of Lansley's plan, which Downing Street now worries has left ministers vulnerable on the charge that they are privatising the NHS, and also concerned that, in the melee of a radical restructure, the NHS finances will get out of control. Experts speak out on what Andrew Lansley should change in his health bill
My doctor husband listens carefully to what he calls sundowning rants just in case there's any validity to the charges. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Pending a successful appeal, Downing could claim for wrongful arrest and 27 years unlawful detention.
Much more worrying is that there are the first signs that inside Downing Street the team is beginning to flinch in the face of such criticism. Times, Sunday Times
10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
Whatever that result, he does return to Downing Street still permanently winged by Iraq.
On Saturday night Senkai was sparsely populated, mainly with young, bankerish couples on dates, seeming unexcited by each other, downing champagne nonetheless. Evening Standard - Home
Bobby is greeted by a sea of pink faces, half-drunk men in their shirtsleeves, downing chota pegs at a great rate.
Roll the die, answer a question and move up the greasy pole to Downing Street.
Not surprisingly, China's test of an antisatellite weapon in January 2007 – followed by the US Navy's downing of a crippled US spy satellite in February – chilled cooperative overtures.
As yet there is no word on the disclosures from Downing Street.
the Prime Minister lives at No. 10 Downing Street
If a landowning nobility was to prosper, it was well advised to diversify out of land and reap some of the gain of financial, commercial, and industrial growth.
In all cases agricultural support policies have been fuelled by the political power exerted by farming and landowning lobbies. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
Now the former Downing Street adviser is offering style tips to the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times
For what actually happened was that on collecting the Sheila McKechnie Foundation award at a Downing Street reception in 2008, Glass stepped forward and then moved, with partial success, to superglue his hand to that of the then prime minister Gordon Brown to highlight the iniquities of the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport. Hugh Muir's diary
They were fawned over at Westminster Abbey, greeted warmly at No. 10 Downing St. and, finally, lauded at the first state dinner thrown here for a U.S. president in eight years. Obamas get royal treatment in Britain
Downing Street rejected the idea. Times, Sunday Times
The reigning champ Joey Chestnut won for the second year in a row, downing more than 60 hotdogs.
Now the former Downing Street adviser is offering style tips to the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times
George Downing called off the contest for another year.
By the time he was 21, he was downing two and a half bottles of rum a day, washed down by cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines and heroin.
Downing Street have released the initial details of Prime Minister Gollum Brown's Cabinet reshuffle to awed disinterest from the world. Archive 2009-06-01
Downing Street rejected the idea. Times, Sunday Times
After downing it in a single swallow, Jonnie exhales and looks past Hannah down the hall.
When news leaked out of a gathering last week, Downing Street said it should have ‘remained private’.
Freer admitted downing half a bottle of vodka and half a bottle of Canadian rye before the assault.
The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.
Downing Street has been buoyed by polling suggesting strong public support for welfare reform. Times, Sunday Times
Larry Downing/Reuters Alex Wells, 13, of San Diego, spelled "mince" correctly in round two on Wednesday, left, and made it to round five Thursday before misspelling "dansant. Spelled Out
AN electrician nabbed at five times the drink-drive limit after downing a bottle of vodka has escaped jail by a whisker. The Sun
Earlier this year Janet and supporters marched on Downing Street in October to demand a public inquiry into Christopher's death after five police officers were cleared of neglect of duty.
While Reid clattered around broadcasting studios explaining why sections of the security services were out to get his government, a number of senior figures within Downing Street were wincing.
As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.
Naturally the most ambitious junior ministers and backbenchers are also creeping up to Downing Street. The Sun
He had just interviewed the Prime Minister and had come away from Number 10 Downing Street convinced that the Labour leader was just about kaput politically.
He thinks we will be downing tools come spring. Times, Sunday Times
The Resettlement Administration (RA), which eventually became the Farm Security Administration (FSA), stressed "rural rehabilitation" efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming. Dust Bowl
Cameron, who started working for the Conservative party in the last two years of Thatcher's period in Downing Street, will echo two of her most famous statements when he says today: After a decade of reckless spending under Labour, Britain needs good housekeeping from the Conservatives. Archive 2008-05-01
But Downing Street remains unrepentant about the tone of the intervention. The Sun
Young men and women dressed in flashy pants and skimpy dresses sat at long tables on three sides of a dance floor, downing huge amounts of cheap whiskey. Thai Noon
For 13 years the old government had failed to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour in one of London's most dysfunctional neighbourhoods: Downing St. Setting fire to speeches, throwing bricks through policy windows, the Blair Babes goody-goodies lived in terror of the Brown Shirt gang which had cocked a snook at authority. After Mandelson's storm, John Prescott calms – and charms – the Lords
As for Andy's suggestion of the possibility of losing the story if Downing Street were prewarned, I have great faith in Dizzy's ability to keep records. Has Downing Street put anonymous security officer at risk?
The best-known streets of London are Fleet Street, the Strand, Piccadilly, Whitehall, Pall Mall, Downing Street, and Lombard Street.
He is back on the warpath, freshened up and revitalised by his months away from Downing Street.
This proved too much for Downing Street, which promptly unrescinded the initial order, which was imposed after media horror over a "Monsters 'Ball" at Holloway Jail. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
For the landowning nobility, the portents were not good.
The appearance of food had a very encouraging effect, for forthwith there was a general rush towards Watchorn, and it was only by rating and swinging his 'whop' about that he prevented the pack from pawing, and perhaps downing him. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
Downing Street publicly refused yesterday to contemplate defeat.
Had the Bulgarian fans found it in their hearts to appreciate England's work they might have been impressed in particular by the interchanging of Walcott, Young and Stewart Downing as they manoeuvred in support of Rooney. Bulgaria 0-3 England | Euro 2012 qualifier match report
‘They're here to see Asher Downing,’ the officer said to the chunky nurse behind the desk.
Given the missteps by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- who called a widowed retiree a bigot in off-camera remarks last week -- Labor in particular is bracing for what may be its biggest defeat since 1983, when Margaret Thatcher won a second term and the party was exiled from No. 10 Downing Street for another 14 years. British elections could deliver a blow to two-party rule
But Downing Street sources said there were no immediate plans for a photocall.
‘This is really good, thanks Rachel,’ Danielle said as she began scarfing her eggs and bacon, then downing the orange juice.
In what Downing Street dubbed a "fightback" address, the Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I took many exasperating telephone calls from the press during my time in Downing Street, but one in particular sticks in my mind.
After the election, I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street.
PC Downing believes that these days there is much more of a realisation of the terrible impact of illegally snaring animals, birds and insects - but he still fears that many see it as a little, insignificant issue.
Downing Street postponed the appointment from Monday following a delay in the Prime Minister's schedule after talks in Northern Ireland overran.
As their aircraft was chocked and chained, I asked them about their downing discrepancy.
Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
But the final, authoritative judgment on the by-election was pronounced from No. 10, Downing Street. POLITICAL SUICIDE
To image kinesin at this critical stage, Downing and Sindelar turned to cryoelectron microscopy, which is a type of electron microscopy in which the sample is studied at extremely low temperatures. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
The latter, called "sundowning," occurs in people with dementia, although the cause is unclear. SI.com
A spokesman said: The proof that Wendy Alexander's U-turn was an unorganised and freelance operation is confirmed by Downing Street's failure to endorse her comments. Archive 2008-05-01
Churchill valued his false teeth so much that he often called Cudlipp to Downing Street to fix them. Chron.com Chronicle
The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street.
As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language.
The Prime Minister arrived back at Downing Street from Paris this morning.
Downing Street rejected the idea. Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, some such as Admiralty House whilst 10 Downing Street was undergoing renovations or repairs. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Downing Street sources re-emphasised the government's position on the Euro, stating there was simply ‘no change’.
The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street.
He found Ribbons and Bows downing glogg shots at a hastily organized wake for Gumdrop. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Just give me the goods, tell me something I didn't know or wouldn't have thought of on my own, and never mind the pictures of your best friend's sister's boyfriend puking in the toilet after downing three boilermakers at his birthday party.
William and Ffion enter Downing Street to tumultuous Tory applause and waving of union flags.
A thin wiry man was sitting at the counter, downing a bottle of beer.
What better satisfaction that downing a frosty can of export lager after battling homeward through the A-roads of the steamy English countryside?
But Downing Street last night insisted any communications received by him had no bearing on his appointments to the government benches, which were made on merit.
He spent the lead-up to the G8 summit pushing hard for a deal on climate change, yet this deal caught Downing Street completely by surprise.
The news today that female Labour MPs are complaining about the "laddish" culture in Number 10 Downing Street should be seen as preparing the way for the Labour Party to kick Gordon Brown out after the Norwich North by-election. Archive 2009-07-01
Downing promptly missed a glorious opportunity, steering his shot horribly wide after being sent into the clear by Young. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise, his case was plausible, if you discount the toytown security dossier compiled by the internet pirates of Downing Street.
Besides, apart from perhaps Ed Balls, she's the Big Loser from the reshuffle: Peter Mandelson has been made the de facto Deputy PM; while Downing Street's assertion that Harman will still "deputise" for Brown at PMQs came across as laughable and patronising. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
The images on the bookplate juxtapose, rather unhistorically, several images from the career of Downing as a young actor, but, cumulatively, they indicate his ability successfully to mix classical, canonical drama and popular entertainment.
The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.
The following are details released by Downing Street of George Bush's itinerary for his four-day visit to Britain.
The threat to Mr Trimble's leadership will be assessed at the launch of a new round of intense talks aimed at salvaging the peace process in Downing Street today.
10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language.
Last month they met Tony Blair at Downing Street, who pledged to boost the size of the registries, commit funds and organise a publicity campaign.
Twenty-six names, on two sheets of Downing Street notepaper: a more eloquent and concise statement of the Prime Minister's standing than any number of opinion polls and election results could ever provide.
Until the present Foreign Office was built in the 1860s, the department was housed in decrepit buildings in Downing Street.
Downing Street sources said the move could give personnel the right to take legal action if they felt the covenant had not been upheld. The Sun
Non-landowning villagers had unwritten but well-understood rights to graze livestock, gather firewood, medicinal plants and mushrooms. The Times Literary Supplement
Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood
Now the former Downing Street henchman has set out a clear policy on household chores. Times, Sunday Times
Spurs have already rebuffed twice by after bidding 6m Downing two years ago. The Sun
What better satisfaction that downing a frosty can of export lager after battling homeward through the A-roads of the steamy English countryside?
Now the former Downing Street adviser is offering style tips to the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times
10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
He said: ‘We have a string of denials, of discrepancies and dissembling on the part of Downing Street.’
She had passed out after downing a bottle of whiskey. The Sun
Many youngsters consider that drink problems are all about an old man sitting on a park bench downing meths.
The landowning peasants and village elites who were subjected to signorial lordship normally remained landowners, and still were when signorial powers faded again in the thirteenth century.
In the last weekly Downing Street meeting for parliamentary private secretaries, the cabinet office minister, Oliver Letwin, was lampooned for telling ministerial aides: "If this goes well we'll have nothing to legislate on in two years' time. David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies
Quench your summer thirst by downing water or a low-cal drink like unsweetened iced tea.
It did not deliver all the exonerations for which Downing Street was looking.
There is a growing consensus, everywhere except Downing Street, that this is the way forward.
In Great Britain the landowning aristocracy sought to protect itself by having the government pass protective ‘Corn Laws’ which kept out cheap foreign grain for the benefit of home producers.
The European Union's executive has proposed a new tax on bank transactions as the centrepiece of the EU's first €1trn budget, triggering a row with Downing Street, which dismissed the proposal as "completely unrealistic". 'Tobin tax' called for by EU in seven-year blueprint
The interesting thing about this Government is not so much the sporadic outbursts of guerrilla warfare between Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street as the fact that the duumvirate of these two has endured for so long.
The bride immediately swapped her L-plate for a pair of glasses, revealed she was a lawyer, and pointed out the contract wasn't legally binding – before downing yet another sambuca and shrieking for the compere to take his top off. Isy Suttie: My Edinburgh
In future the BBC in Scotland will decide on how it covers the news on strict editorial grounds instead of how the director-general in London wants the news presented and has stitched it up with Downing Street.
10 Downing Street is the British Prime Minister's official residence.
In 10 Downing Street, all eyes are on the Chancellor's speech next week.
He made the promise as the Evening Telegraph went to Downing Street to tackle him on the issue.
Turpin's dandy appearance bewildered campaigners and Downing Street police officers, who eventually banished him from the houses of power - but his message struck a chord.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Downing Street have called the South Yorkshire attack "shocking". Undefined
The State in all European countries, and in England first of all, as I hope, will discover that its functions are now, and have long been, very wide of what the State in old pedant Downing Streets has aimed at; that the State is, for the present, not a reality but in great part a dramatic speciosity, expending its strength in practices and objects fallen many of them quite obsolete; that it must come a little nearer the true aim again, or it cannot continue in this world. Latter-Day Pamphlets
Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
Geraldine Pearson was one of hundreds of women who made their way to Downing Street last week as part of a campaign to save the jobs of their menfolk at the already silent MG Rover plant.
She was born into a wealthy landowning family.
For 13 years the old government had failed to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour in one of London's most dysfunctional neighbourhoods: Downing St. Setting fire to speeches, throwing bricks through policy windows, the Blair Babes goody-goodies lived in terror of the Brown Shirt gang which had cocked a snook at authority. After Mandelson's storm, John Prescott calms – and charms – the Lords
His official spokeswoman said that Downing Street would consider its findings carefully. Times, Sunday Times
He recently completed a commission for the banqueting suite at 10 Downing Street.
She swishes her glass of wine around before downing the rest of it.
Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street.
But the brutish Hemingway will give him no quarter, downing the excellent vintage in a single gulp.
The Prime Minister is now firmly ensconced in Downing Street with a large majority.
Gordon Brown, who continued to base himself in Downing Street, faced claims he had "ranted" at Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The morning the debate on Hutton was held, demonstrators dressed as judges threw whitewash at the gates of Blair's Number 10 Downing Street residence.
Some friends say she is already countenancing life outside of Downing Street.
The resonant phrases, no doubt coined by Downing Street's resonant phrase craftsman, continued to roll out. Cameron even makes war seem reasonable | Simon Hoggart's sketch
The blast - as well as downing the aircraft in which it is carried - spreads deadly material across a wide area.
Speaking outside Ten Downing Street, she declared that she would fight on.
The Prime Minister is now firmly ensconced in Downing Street with a large majority.
I've had two cold showers and a bath, I've been downing cold water all day, and I'm sitting here by the window breaking into a sweat.
The military and landowning cliques in many South American countries will find it attractive financially to work with German fascist concerns as well as expedient from the standpoint of temporary power politics. Think Progress » Gregg: Not ‘A Lot Of People’ Would ‘Really Care’ If Democrats Use Reconciliation To Finish Health Care
Both his parents came from prosperous merchant and landowning families.
Kendall ignored her last comment, but turned to Sandy who was downing his third shot of whiskey.
Downing Street sources said the move could give personnel the right to take legal action if they felt the covenant had not been upheld. The Sun
Significantly, Downing Street's suggestion that exile would head off war re-emphasises that disarmament is no longer the sole aim of what is being called the ‘coalition of the willing’.
Downing Street has been off limits to the general public since 1982.
But the final, authoritative judgment on the by-election was pronounced from No. 10, Downing Street. POLITICAL SUICIDE
The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street.
He was never likely to denounce the Downing Street snake-pit and order its inmates to the gallows.
Formal education used to be of little significance among ruling and landowning Rajput clans.
He had been proud of the idea that he would be part of the deputation of miners that would march on from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street. THE WHITE DOVE
That evening, in Downings, the team mulled things over, and finally Dan came up with a suggestion.
Larry Downing/Reuters Madeline P. Gallard, 13, of Victoria, British Columbia, reacted after mis-spelling her word -- "demesne" -- during competition Wednesday. Spelled Out
Minutes after the Downing Street meeting ended, the image of unity was exploded.
For example, Richard was greatly affected by "sundowning," a common phenomenon in which dementia patients 'behavioral symptoms are triggered by the change from day to night. Kathryn Haslanger: Alzheimer's Disease: Caring for the Caregiver
Elsewhere in Europe, Larry, the Downing Street cat, is let in to his residence and Syrian refugees seek safety in Turkey. Photos of the Day
Downing Street officials were left squirming as they had to change their tune over the letter yesterday. The Sun
The two men were soon well on their way to getting seriously drunk, downing shots of tequila with beer chasers one after another.

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