Similar words: down in the mouth, awning, yawning, clowning, dawning, frowning, drowning, fawning. Meaning: [daʊn] n. United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852).
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91. John Major faces severe social and economic problems as well as tough debate over European integration, but his top priority will be to maintain the Tories' long lease on 10 Downing Street.
92. He covered the distance to his house on Downing street at a run.
93. The best-known streets of London are Fleet Street, the Strand, Piccadilly, Whitehall, Pall Mall, Downing Street, and Lombard Street.
94. Kieran came on as sub for Stewart Downing in the 64th minute, while Michael Carrick remained on the bench.
95. "This is criminality pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated," Cameron told reporters from outside his residence at 10 Downing Street.
96. Villa player of the season Downing, 27, is a summer transfer target for Liverpool and wants to go.
97. Downing was passionate about landscape gardening, and even more so about its edifying possibilities.
98. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
99. The prime minister's comments came in a podcast, released on the 10 Downing Street website and YouTube, on the 80th anniversary of the Wall Street crash.
100. Damian McBride resigned after admitting sending "juvenile and inappropriate" e-mails from his Downing Street account to the former Labour spin doctor Derek Draper.
101. At the time, Downing was twenty-five years old and living in Newburgh, New York.
102. Prior to this, Cameron was held at 10 Downing Street, "the Cabinet emergency committee", only several British cabinet ministers attended the meeting.
103. Unusually for Downing Street(sentencedict.com), there were no actual rats scuttling by.
104. 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.
105. In 1841, Andrew Jackson Downing published the first landscape-gardening book aimed at an American audience.
106. Downing hopes the Boro faithful wouldn't give him a hard time if he does eventually return in opposition colours.
107. With a rainbow touching the sky over Westminster, the Conservative leader David Cameron set off to kiss hands with the Queen and that arrived as prime minister in Downing Street.
108. Visiting Downing Street earlier in the day, Mr Obama was at once emollient, self-critical and articulate, in a way that put an initially bashful Gordon Brown at his ease.
109. There's been no spark . No maverick choices . Lennon and Downing are both inspired picks.
110. Meanwhile, Downing Street announced that David Cameron, in an apparent U-turn, would now be wearing morning dress and not a business suit.
111. The UK project is led by policy wonk David Halpern, a key part of Cameron's Downing Street brain trust and head of the Behavioural Insight Team.
112. McGowan, from Peckham, south London, is no stranger to bizarre stunts: in 2003 he spent two weeks rolling a monkey nut with his nose seven miles to Downing Street to protest against student debt.
113. Campbell, a teetotaller, also discloses in today's extracts that the pressure of working in Downing Street became so great that he started drinking again around the turn of the millennium.
114. Meanwhile, the downing of a Turkish helicopter is under investigation; the guerrillas claim that they downed it with hostile fire...
115. He was charged with abducting a taxi driver and forcing him to drive a bomb to Downing Street.
116. But in her drinking study, for which she (easily) recruited participants, she found that people downing the combination of alcohol and energy drinks lost this natural control.
117. A backbench rebellion against the UK prime minister turned into a Downing Street coup.
118. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling poses with his ministerial red dispatch box as he leaves 11 Downing Street, en route to delivering the annual budget to the House of Commons.
119. The writing was on the wall and it also appeared on the paperwork submitted to Villa yesterday afternoon, when Downing submitted a formal transfer request.