Put down Sentence Examples

I put down my knife to join her.

Finally she put down her fork and gave up the pretense.

I'm tired of being put down by you.

She put down the last plate and turned around to see what he was doing.

The kitchen clock ticked off thirty seconds before she put down her fork and pushed away from the table.

She could have carried a gun, but that would have to be put down so many times that it wouldn't be much help.

She put down the knife and thought a moment.

She sighed and put down the book.

It was again put down in 1559, and was finally forbidden to the clergy of the English Church by the unratified canons of 1571 (Report of the sub-committee of Convocation, 1908).

He was still in office when the final rising of the Cubans began in February 1895, and he had to resign in March because he could not find superior officers in the army willing to help him to put down the turbulent and disgraceful demonstrations of the subalterns of Madrid garrison against newspapers which had given offence to the military.

He put down the rebellion of his brother Zareh, and is praised as a mild and generous monarch, who made concessions to the Christians.

A violent rebellion is mentioned in 1788, put down only after the loss, it is said, of ioo,000 men by disease and sword, and the expenditure of 2,000,000 taels of silver.

A serious outbreak took place at Adrianople in 1804, where 20,000 of the new troops had been sent, ostensibly to put down the revolt in Servia, but really to try to bring about the reform of the European provinces.

A friendly letter from Alcuin, and a controversial pamphlet, to which Felix replied, were followed by the sending of several commissions of clergy to Spain to endeavour to put down the heresy.

After a long period of dry weather the natural flow has been known to fall considerably below 200,000,000 gallons, whilst, on the other hand, in the rainy winter season, the flow in 1894 rose for a short time to as high a figure as 20,000,000,000 gallons, and the ordinary flow in winter months may be put down as 3,000,000,000 gallons.

To prevent the breaking down of their properties, the necessary consequence of this law of inheritance, there is no doubt that infanticide was common among them, and that it extended to the male as well as the female progeny, but it has been put down by the Infanticide Rules, which provide for the registration of Jareja children.

Another conspiracy to establish a republican government was promptly smothered in Bahia, and the outbreak in Pernambuco was put down after a republic had been formed there for ninety days.

The conspiracy, however, was put down and Bestia had to content himself with delivering a violent attack upon the consul on the expiration of his office.

The Roman general Paulinus Suetonius, after marching rapidly from Wales to put down a serious insurrection, found Londinium unfitted for a base of military operations, and therefore left the place to the mercy of Boadicea, who entirely destroyed it, and killed the inhabitants.

Elam and the northern part of Mesopotamia were also subjugated, and rebellions were put down both in Kazalla and in Babylonia itself.

Assur, Arbela and other places joined the pretender, and the revolt was with difficulty put down by Samsi-Raman (or Samsi-Hadad), Shalmaneser's second son, who soon afterwards succeeded him (824 B.C.).

In 1878 there was a serious native insurrection, and another in 1881 was only put down after much bloodshed.

In 762 there was a rebellion in favour of a descendant of 'Ali, but it was put down with great severity by the army of the caliph Mansur.

At the outbreak of the revolution of 1820 the king called him to his councils, and when the constitution had been granted Colletta was sent to put down the separatist rising in Sicily, which he did with great severity.

The Consolatio has been put down as late as the 15th century as the work of an Italian imitator, there being no MSS.

These measures roused violent opposition in the country, which a new and stringent press law, nicknamed the "law of justice and love," failed to put down.

The immigration to Canada for the year 1905 was put down as 146,266, but a portion of this consisted of immigrants passing through to the United States.

The result was a rebellion in Granada, which was put down with great difficulty.

This derangement being carefully noted, another bore to the outcrop on the same principle is put down for the purpose of proving the seam C; the nature of the strata at first is found to agree with the latter part of that bored through in No.

Luther, who believed that the peasants were trying to cloak their dreadful sins with excuses from the gospel, exhorted the government to put down the insurrection.

The majority of the diet approved a recess, allowing the Protestants a brief period of immunity until the 15th of April 1531, after which they were to be put down by force.

An attempt of the democratic party to regain power was temporarily successful (January 10, 16ro); but the estates appealed to the States General and Maurice of Nassau, who had been appointed stadtholder on the death of Nuenar, put down the movement with a strong hand, and the Utrechters found themselves compelled to yield.

Two years later he put down a rising of the Aquitanians in Gaul, and crossed the Rhine to punish the aggressions of the Germans.

After this period of formation his fame began to spread abroad, and the monks of a neighbouring monastery induced him to become their abbot; but their lives were irregular and dissolute, and on his trying to put down abuses they attempted to poison him.

Hence we must put down the quality or timbre as depending on the form.

This rising, which lwas probably caused by the exaction of tithes and the oppression of Frankish officials, aimed also at restoring the heathen religion, and was put down in 842 by king Louis the German, who claimed authority over this part of the Carolingian empire.

The riots at Birmingham lasted ten days, and had to be put down by armed force.

To put down the Zealots he favoured an even more violent sect, the Sicarii ("Dagger-men"), by whose aid he contrived the murder of the high-priest Jonathan.

The period of his rule was marked by internal feuds and disturbances, which he put down with severity.

This further act of repression led to two terrible Cossack risings, in 1635 and 1636, put down only with the utmost difficulty, whereupon the diet of 1638 deprived the Cossacks of all their ancient privileges, abolished the elective hetmanship, and substituted for it a commission of Polish noblemen with absolute power, so that the Cossacks might well declare that those who hated them were lords over them.

Cyril, 67th patriarch, sent Severus as bishop, with orders to put down polygamy and to enforce observance of canonical consecration for all churches.

In 1902 alone, according to the British consular report, " at a moderate estimate the number of trees damaged or destroyed might be put down at 6,000,000."

When we put down in black and white the explicit details of what is 1 We should be apt to say "the true idea of God," but that is a way of putting it which does not correspond with prophetic thought.

Powers of reasoning are not denied to animals nor even speech; the silence of the brute creation may be put down to their superior cunning.

Being open to objection on grounds both of superstition and of irreverence, these customs were gradually put down by the council of Laodicea in A.D.

But the Turkish soldiers were of little use in a regular battle, and the sultan relied mainly on his Christian troops, so much so that an insurrection of dervishes which occurred at this period could only be put down by their assistance.

Insurrections amongst the Moors, Jews, and Brigantes in Britain were easily put down.

After the death of Seleucus, Patrocles was sent by his successor Antiochus to put down a revolt in Asia Minor, and lost his life in an engagement with the Bithynians.

Yet even then he considered that the true leaders of the people were a peer and a dean, and there was no real inconsistency in the fact that at a later period he was among the most strenuous defenders of Governor Eyre in the measures adopted by him to put down the Jamaican disturbances.

Majorian thereupon made peace with Genseric. But his ill-success had destroyed his military reputation; his efforts to put down abuses and improve the condition of the people had roused the hatred.

He was joined by Eberhard, duke of Franconia, and it was only by the aid of the duke of Swabia, whom the duke of Franconia had offended, that the rising was put down.

The emperor made peace with the Bohemians and quickly put down the rising.

He had put down the disorder in Bavaria, in Saxony and in Lorraine; a diet held at Magdeburg in 1135 was attended by representatives from the vassal states of Denmark, Hungary, Bohemia and Poland; and in 1136, when he visited Italy for the second time, Germany was in a very peaceful condition.

Some of those who were discontented with this decision retired from the preliminary parliament, and a few of them, of republican sympathies, called the population of Upper Baden to arms. The rising was put down by the troops of Baden, but it did considerable injury by awakening the fears of the more moderate portion of the community.

Frederick VII., who had just succeeded Christian VIII., put down the rebellion, but Prussia, acting in the name of the confederation, despatched an army against the Daoes, and drove them from Schleswig.

Prussia, which, following the example of Austria, had recalled her representatives from Frankfort, sent her troops to put down these risings, and on the 21st of May 1849 the larger number of the deputies to the parliament voluntarily resigned their seats.

Xerxes, 486467 B.C., who put down the revolt with severity, and his successor Artaxerxes, 466425 B.C., like Cambyses, were hateful to the Egyptians.

Moreover, on a graduated level, put down in 1874, there was a permanent rise of nearly 4 ft.

Malcolm the Maiden, before his early death in 1165, had put down the menacing power of Somerled, lord of the Isles, a chief apparently of mixed Celtic and Scandinavian blood, the founder of the great clan of Macdonald, whose chiefs, the lords of the Isles, were almost royal; Malcolm also subdued the Celts of Galloway, sometimes called Picts, but at this time Gaelic in speech.

In May 1363 David put down a rising headed by the Steward, and then, in October, went to London, where he and the earl of Douglas made arrangements by which the countries were to be united under Edward III.

At once the sacking of religious houses in Dundee, Lindores and Arbroath had begun; the hour of religious revolution had struck; but the godly were put down when the regent and the cardinal were so suddenly reconciled.

In 172 he was sent to Egypt, where he put down a dangerous rising of the Bucolici, the robber herdsmen of the delta of the Nile, after which he returned to Syria.

Serious insurrections of the peasantry, especially in Cephalonia, had to be put down by military force, and the parliament passed a resolution in favour of immediate union with Greece.

And we have seen as the consequence of all this the development of an historical situation in which the leaders of current orthodoxy ally themselves with the indifferentism which accepts existing political conditions in order to put down a disturber of the peace.

After some hesitation Peel resolved to put down the repeal movement.

The repeated attempts of the abbots to put down this independence of their rule were defeated in the battles of VOgelinsegg (1403), north-west of Trogen, and of the Stoss (1405), the pass leading from Gais over to Altstatten in the Rhine valley.

After the battle of Leuctra Argos experienced a political crisis; the oligarchs attempted a revolution, but were put down by their opponents with such vindictiveness that 1200 of them are said to have been executed (370).

All these circumstances combined to render the new regime weak and unpopular, since there was no force at the ruler's command except foreign troops to put down disorder or to protect those who submitted, while the discontented nobles fomented disaffection and the inbred hatred of strangers in race and religion among the general Afghan population.

Abdur Rahman executed or exiled all those whose political influence he saw reason to fear, or of whose disaffection he had the slightest suspicion; his administration was severe and his punishments were cruel; but undoubtedly he put down disorder, stopped the petty tyranny of local chiefs and brought violent crime under some effective control in the districts.

He established, for the first time in the history of the Afghan kingdom, a powerfully centralized administration strong enough to maintain order and to enforce obedience over all the country which he had united under his dominion, supported by a force sufficiently armed and disciplined to put down attempts at resistance or revolt.

Sent by his father in 1439 to direct the defence of Languedoc against the English, and to put down the brigandage in Poitou, he was induced by the rebellious nobles to betray his trust and place himself at the head of the Praguerie.

He also put down the maroons or runaway slaves who had long been the pest of the island.

The prestige thus acquired led to his appointment as prefect of Palermo, and while occupying that position he put down brigandage throughout the province; in 1868 he was prefect of Naples.

He was a faithful servant of Ali and put down for him the revolt excited by Moawiya's partisans in Basra.

He had at once, however, to put down a dangerous rebellion.

A quarrel arose, and in a short time the Azd under Kirmani, supported by the Rabi`a, who always were ready to join the opposition, were in insurrection, which Nasr tried in vain to put down by concessions.

In Bathaniya and the IIauran, in the north of Syria, in Mesopotamia and Irak Khorasan insurrections had to be put down with fire and sword.

The mighty house of Abu Dolaf in the south-west of Media, which had never ceased to encroach on the Caliphate, was put down.

Then came the fall of Fort Sumter and the proclamation of President Lincoln calling for troops to put down rebellion.

These were put down by French and Austrian arms, with the result of focusing the hatred of Young Italy on the pope.

The terrible power of excommunication is claimed for the church; but the council of the realm also is called to use the power given them by God to put down all religion but the reformed, and to further the aims and carry out the sentences AA.

These are supposed to be the relics of a still earlier age, and it is hardly believed that we even possess the first that was put down in writing.

There are also ordinary shares to the amount of 200,000 put down in the companys annual balance-sheets as of no value.

From 825 to about 898 a similar dynasty, the Dulafidsi or Dolafids reigned nominally as governors under the caliphs till they were put down by Motadid.

Three sons were the issue of this marriage, Sultan Ali, Ibrahim Mirza, and the youngest, Ism&il, the date of whose birth is put down as 1480 for reasons which will appear hereafter.

He was summoned to Shiraz to put down rebellion in Fars; and before he could drive out the Uzbegs, he had to secure himself against Turkish inroads threatening from the west.

When he again took the field it was not to measure himself once more with the Kajar chief, but to put down the pretensions of Azad.

He was succeeded by his brother, Mir Khodadad Khan, when a youth of twelve years of age, who, however,'did not obtain his position before he had put down by force a rebellion on the part of his turbulent chiefs, who had first elected him, but, not receiving what they considered an adequate reward from his treasury, sought to depose him in favour of his cousin Sher dil Khan.

Probus had also put down three usurpers, Saturninus, Proculus and Bonosus.

This insurrection was, however, speedily put down by the royalists.

In 283 B.C. Philetaerus rebelled, Lysimachus died without being able to put down the revolt, and Pergamum became the capital of a little principality.

Up to 1839 no effort was made to stop the trade, but in that year the emperor Tao-Kwang sent a commissioner, Lin Tsze-sii, to Canton to put down the traffic. Lin issued a proclamation threatening hostile measures if the British opium ships serving as depots were not sent away.

The total length of the coast-line may be put down as 2350 m.,2 out of which 515 m.

Although little more than a guess, 1375 hours may be put down as approximately the average duration of bright sunshine for England as a whole, which may be compared with 2600 hours for Italy, and probably about 1200 hours for Norway.

The sage, probably, did not think it necessary to put down many of his own thoughts in writing, for he said of himself that he was " a transmitter, and not a maker."

Villains, over whose fate the reader rejoices, are put down as victims of vile treason, and those who dealt with them as he would have been glad to do are subjected to horrible executions without one word of sympathy.

In Moldavia he appeared as a moral reformer, endeavouring to put down the prevalent vices of bigamy and divorce.

Bunyan's own account of his family as the "meanest and most despised of all the families of the land" must be put down to his habitual self-depreciation.

He returned more resolved than ever to do his utmost to rouse the civilized world to put down the desolating slave-trade.

A considerable force of imperial and colonial troops was employed to put down this rising, and the war was subsequently known as the Ninth Kaffir war.

He accompanied this emperor, for whom he expresses enthusiastic admiration, in his campaigns against the Alamanni and the Persians; after his death he took part in the retreat of Jovian as far as Antioch, where he was residing when the conspiracy of Theodorus (371) was discovered and cruelly put down.

In Subtracting From The Left, We Look Ahead To See Whether A I In Any Denomination Must Be Reserved For Changing; Thus In Subtracting 274 From 637 We Should Put Down 2 From 6 As 3, Not As 4, And 7 From 3 As 6.

In 1848 the Polish inhabitants of the province revolted and had to be put down by force, and, in spite of the efforts of the Prussian government, they remain in language and culture separated from their German compatriots.

He put down the Scottish usurper Macbeth with the swords of a Northumbrian army, and restored Malcolm III.

It was put down with the same decisive energy that William had shown in 1088, and this time he was merciless; he blinded and mutilated William of Ets, shut up Mowbray of Northumberland for life in a monastery, and hanged many men of lesser rank.

He did much to restore the internal peace of the realm, and put down the local disorders which had been endemic for the last twenty years.

In 1399 Richard sailed over to Ireland to put down a revolt of the native princes, who had defeated and slain the earl of March his cousin and their lord-lieutenant.

Though he called himself John Amend-all, and promised to put down abuses of every kind, the main part of the programme which he issued was intended to appeal to national sentiment, not to class feeling.

A number of scattered risings in the south were put down by Richards troops, while Buckingham, who had raised his banner in Wales, was prevented from bringing aid by a week of extraordinary rains which made the Severn impassable.

In order to put down the brigands who still infested the country and to check the raids of the Arabs on the frontier, he built or rebuilt fortresses, which were of material assistance to the Jews in the great revolt against Rome.

In 1408 Arundel in convocation proposed and carried the famous Constitutiones Thomae Arundel intended to put down Wycliffite preachers and teaching.

The council of Constance (1414-1418) put an end to the papal schism, and also showed its determination to put down heresy by burning John Huss.

To the north also belong the sagas of Gretti the Strong (Ioio-1031), the life and death of the most famous of Icelandic outlaws, the real story of whose career is mixed up with the mythical adventures of Beowulf, here put down to Gretti, and with late romantic episodes and fabulous folk-tales (Dr Vigfusson would ascribe the best parts of this saga to Sturla; its last editor, whose additions would be better away, must have touched it up about 1300), and the stories of the Ljosvetningasaga (1009-1060).

To put down the Lollards, he called a meeting of the clergy, pressed on the statute de haeretico comburendo, and passed sentence of degradation upon William Sawtrey.

In 1600 Sir George Carew became president of Munster, and, as always happened when the crown was well served, the rebellion was quickly put down.

From Ireland, accompanied by some bands of German mercenaries procured for him in the Low Countries, he invaded England; but the rising was put down at Stoke near Newark in Nottinghamshire, and, Simnel being captured, the king made him a menial of his kitchen.

In self- defence against this continuance of the policy and the The 13th personnel of the Conventiona modern Long Parliament the royalists, persistent street-fighters and masters in the sections after the suppression of the daily indemnification of forty sous, attempted the insurrection of the 13th Vendmiaire (October 5, 1795), which was easily put down by General Bonaparte.

After desolating Valencia for some three years it was put down by the help of troops from Castile.

An attempt to restore the standard of the coinage is said to have caused a revolt of the workmen and officials connected with the mint, which was only put down with the loss of 7000 soldiers.

At the same time he put down the local dynasts and tried to create a strong concentrated power.

Though for a long time they were callous wreckers and pirates, and cruel, and though they show great want of feeling in the "devil murders" - ceremonial murders of one of themselves for grave offences against the community, which are now being gradually put down - still on the whole the Nicobarese are a quiet, inoffensive people, friendly to each other, and not quarrelsome, and by inclination friendly and not dangerous to foreigners.

At various times France, Denmark, Austria and Great Britain all had more or less shadowy rights to the islands, the Danes being the most persistent in their efforts to occupy the group, until in 1869 they relinquished their claims in favour of the British, who at once began to put down the piracies of the islanders, and established a penal settlement, numbering in all about 350 persons, in Nancowry harbour.

Frederick, meanwhile, having helped Pope Gregory against the rebellious Romans and having secured the friendship of France and England, appeared in Germany early in 1235 and put down this rising without difficulty.

The only chore left is to put down this bothersome cur that has so dogged me these many months.

Señor Medena put down his fork and leaned back.

The properties were acquired for speculative purposes, with only small deposits put down.

The book can be put down once you get going.

Edward in an extremely angry mood order an army put together for a campaign to put down Bruce.

We have rampant bindweed - is it OK to treat the whole old lawn before the new one is put down?

A rope or other objects can be put down to mark the boundary but garden borders, fences or anything clearly delimited will do.

Dealing with human feces Where possible feces may be scraped up (e.g. using a dustpan or shovel) and put down a toilet.

Several other equally fanatical insurrections had to be put down by military force.

Diapers and items of feminine hygiene should be appropriately wrapped and disposed of in your bin not put down your toilet.

Two doses of weed killer were put down which eventually turned all of the grass brown.

Again, put down the book and consider something appropriately manly, such as shooting wild boar in a thicket.

They put down woven black matting, to go under the gravel.

Walter Harris's account of the years leading up to the French protectorate, in Morocco That Was, is hard to put down.

And more importantly, where was the perfectly delivered put-down of Cookie?

Where else, for example, would you encounter the witty put-down of unruly audiences that opens Frogs?

In the final activity, students are asked to invent the perfect verbal put-down.

One man even saved £ 100 during the War to put down on buying his own smithy at home.

So, like a champion thoroughbred, Sideshow had to be put down.

An armed uprising in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 was put down by the British.

The Iraqi forces are most likely to fire chemical warheads to cover their retreat or to put down an internal uprising, officials said.

Either have them put down or find an animal rescue center willing to take them in.

In 42, during the reign of Claudius, he put down a revolt in Mauretania, and was the first of the Romans to cross the Atlas range.

Another buoy is put down marking this position, fixing at the same time the actual line of the cable.

Roots are often flattened, twisted and otherwise distorted by mechanical obstacles; stems by excess of food in rich soils, the attacks of minute parasites, overgrowth by climbing plants, &c. Leaves are especially apt to vary, and although the formation of crests, pitchers, puckers, &c., must be put down to the results of abnormal development, it is often difficult to draw the line between teratological and merely varietal phenomena.

A staunch Roman Catholic, but belonging to a school of Augustinian enthusiasts (the Jansenists), whom the Church put down as heretics, he stands pretty much apart from the general currents.

Felix the procurator - a king, as Tacitus says, in power and in mind a slave - tried in vain to put down the revolutionaries.

But they still remained hostile to Rome, as is shown by the conduct of their ambassadors in the Catilinarian conspiracy (63; see Catiline); two years later a revolt under Catugnatus was put down by Gaius Pomptinus at Solonium.

Altogether the entire railway system, including the cost of the Usuri line, the unfinished Amur line, the circum-Baikal line and the eastern Chinese railway, is put down at a total of £87,555,760, and the total distance, all branches included, is 5413 m., of which 1070 m.

His anti-slavery work culminated in his appeal to President Lincoln, entitled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," in which he urged "that all attempts to put down the rebellion and at the same time uphold its inciting cause" were preposterous and futile, and that "every hour of deference to slavery" was "an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union."

Speedy retribution followed, which effectually put down the revolt.

She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke the seal of her letter.

She rose, put down the guitar, and went to the drawing room.

These he put down beside him--not letting anyone read them at dinner.

Nicholas put down the book and looked at his wife.

And it 's hard to put down once you get going.

You will almost always need a deposit of some sort and the more you can put down the better.

An employe who feels put down may be seething inside, just waiting for the opportunity to " get even ".

The cards are super, no smutty jokes or put-down humor, many have an ethnic theme.

Ambrosius ' stratagem evidently succeeded, however, as the rebellion, if there was one, was readily put down.

I have a cough and wheezy chest, which I have put down to dust.

Have your finances together and figure out just how much money you can put down for the foreclosed property.

If you can afford to put down 20%, you can afford mortgage insurance.

This doesn't mean that it has to be a difficult process, per se, because there is much enjoyment to be had when you finally put down your hard earned cash to get your hands on a jersey.

Stores are much less likely to lose or forget a rental when money has all ready been put down on the item.

Remove the entire carpet and pad and put down a wood floor.

We bought a kitten that we had to put down within five days because it had distemper.

Do not put down a deposit on a kitten unless you are ready to buy it.

Flaking You must put down a base of loose powder under your eyes if you are going to wear this look.

You can select the games you want to play, put down the amount you wish to use and when you win, you really win money!

Reputable jobs will also not require teens to put down any money before accepting the job.

Legitimate agents won't ask you to put down a deposit or pay them anything in order to get an agency contract.

Never lift more than what you can't put down with control.

You'll also need to put down a deposit.

Even though parents Linda and Terry "The Hulk" Hogan are in the middle of a contentious and bitter divorce, they put down the boxing gloves to make a birthday video for their son and visit him in jail.

And if I can't find some kind of home remedy and fix her, she could get very sick and may have to be put down.

In short, they needed drivers, ASAP, to help with a mother and her litter of three-week-old pups or they would be put down within hours.

Some hotels will have you put down a large room deposit and you will want to be sure to clean up the room before checking out, so you can get your deposit back.

You may be expected to put down a deposit if you decide to have them order a pair for you.

Overall, the entire gameplay experience is incredibly fun, and very hard to put down.

By keeping an eye out for new releases, they have the best opportunity to put down the money for pre-orders and play these games the moment they are launched.

This is where cowboys put down their red-eye for a glass of Syrah.

In the 1400s, some of the flowery verse was put down on paper and one of the earliest written Valentines greeting from that time is housed in the British Museum.

With a standard tent, you have to find level ground, put down a groundsheet to protect your tent from water, drive stakes into the ground, and more.

However, if you are set in your career path and see yourself living in the same area for the next few years, you might be ready to put down roots.

If you buy a $150,000 home and put down $10,000, your mortgage principal starts out at $140,000.

The amount of money you will have to put down on a mobile home can depend on several factors.

Also remember that the more money you put down on a mobile home, the less your monthly mortgage payment will be.

Though large sums of money can be hard to come by for most, there are certain times when we are able to put down a little extra on that principle (think tax refund season).

Buyers were also required to put down a $500 deposit and other fees applied according to state requirements.

Assemble your down payment - Once you know your price range, you will be able to calculate how much cash you will need in order to put down a down payment of 10 percent or more.

Whenever possible, pay off your current debts before you begin looking for a new home, and put down at least 20 percent when financing.

For example, assume the bank would require you to put down 20 percent, or $20,000 on a $100,000 home.

For loans backed by FHA, you are permitted to put down as little as 3.5 percent of the home's value as your down payment, as of 2010.

All the major dating sites let you state that you're a single parent, and you can usually put down how many kids you have and whether you have primary custody.

While one rejection of a sexual overture may be put down to exhaustion, stress or other reason, regular rejections are more suspicious.

Writing prompts work like a springboard, and you don't really know where you're going to land until you put down the pen.

Your biggest challenge is learning to appreciate what you have before you can truly put down roots.

Taurus needs to put down roots just like any other earth sign, such as Virgo and Capricorn.

Neither parent should ever blame or put down the other parent in front of the children.

When a child has to put down his book to struggle with a dictionary to get the meaning, he is not only likely to lose interest in his reading, but he will probably not ask for the meaning of unfamiliar words again!

The more you communicate with your nanny and the more you put down on paper before making an arrangement long term, the more successful your experience will be.

Then children stand on a letter of their choice (if there's not much space, you can only put down the letters that match students' names and have them grouped that way).

Many chants not only are used to inspire a sense of camaraderie and tradition, but they are also used to diss, taunt, and put down other sororities.

If you use decoupage glue, you can just glue right over everything you put down and it will stay in place.

Keep in mind that some models aren't as sturdy or as well-built as the traditional chair, so read reviews before you put down a lot of money.

Turn off the television, put down the book, and instead listen to fast-paced, high-intensity music that motivates you.

Sick home from school, a young boy forced to put down his video game controller when his grandfather comes to visit to read him the story of The Princess Bride.

If you enjoy talking about something specific, such as your kids, celebrities or sports, then you put down on paper -- so to speak -- so everyone can read and comment on your thoughts.

Alfonso put down his toy and looked uncertain.

Señor Medena put down his fork and leaned back.

Fred sighed and put down the newspaper.

Dean put down his paper.

He put down his spoon.

Alex put down his fork and leaned back in his chair, studying her.

After the Restoration the determination of the government to put down Presbyterianism was speedily felt in Ireland.

This capture so alarmed the national government that a force was sent under the command of Roca to put down the insurrection.

The Blackhall bore, put down at his advice from 1885 to 1888, reached a water-bearing layer at the depth of 1645 ft.

The regent therefore represented to her brother that the disorders were entirely put down and that the time had come to show mercy.

Bela resolutely put down all disorder.

About 245 the emperor Philip the Arabian entrusted him with an important command on the Danube, and in 249 (or end of 248), having been sent to put down a revolt of the troops in Moesia and Pannonia, he was forced to assume the imperial dignity.

All the evidence in Barclay's own work goes to prove that he was sincere in his reproof of contemporary follies and vice, and the gross accusations which John Bale 1 brings against his moral character may be put down to his hatred of Barclay's cloth.

Nicanor was despatched with a large army to put down the rebels and to pay the tribute due to Rome by selling them as slaves.

But when the Syrians chased him into the mountains, 6000 Jews went over to him and, with their aid, he put down the rebellion.

Herod had put down Jewish rebels and Herod appointed the high priests.

Before he departed to Rome on this errand, which was itself an insult to the nation, there were riots in Jerusalem at the Passover which he needed all his soldiery to put down.

In spite of all this Josephus held his ground and by force or craft put down those who resisted his authority.

He encouraged agriculture, improved the roads, introduced an Albanian police, and put down brigandage.

After a period of great distress and cruel oppression, in 1866, on the demand for reforms being again refused, a general insurrection took place, which was only put down by great exertions on the part of the Porte.

At Auxonne, as previously at Valence, Napoleon commanded a small detachment of troops sent to put down disturbances in neighbouring towns, and carried out his orders unflinchingly.

The "grey amice" of the canons of St Paul's at London was put down in 1549, the academic hood being substituted.

Recognizing that the true aim of the scheme of church reform brought forward in parliament in 1529 was to put down the only moral force that could withstand the royal will, he energetically opposed the reformation of abuses, which doubtless under other circumstances he would have been the first to accept.

A force of 1200 troops was sent to put down the rising.

In 1850 the trade is said to have been decisively put down.

Though the history of the Congo Free State affords a painful contrast to the philanthropic professions of its founder, in other parts of the continent the establishment of protectorates by Great Britain, France and Germany was followed by strenuous, and largely successful, efforts to put down slave raiding.

Wesley put down many severe things against himself on the return voyage, and he saw afterwards that even then he had the faith of a servant though not.

O'Reilly put down the rebellion with determination and in accord with the instructions of his king.

After yielding to these hard conditions, Turkey took advantage of her respite to strengthen the frontier defences and to put down the rebellions in Syria and Egypt; some effort was also expended on the hopeless task of reforming the Janissaries.

The last great rebellions were put down by Artaxerxes III.

Chap. vi., which describes a vision of Isaiah "in the death-year of King Uzziah" (740 or 734 B.C.?) may possibly have arisen out of notes put down in the reign of Jotham; but for several reasons it is not an acceptable view that, in its present form, this striking chapter is earlier than the reign of Ahaz.

More dangerous was the rebellion of Egypt under Inarus (Inaros), which was put down by Megabyzus only after a long struggle against the Egyptians and the Athenians (460-454).

The rebellion was at last put down by a series of treacheries and perfidious negotiations.

Although he carried his troops over that long and arduous march with almost unexampled rapidity, he only arrived after the insurrection had been put down.