The firing slowed the spacecraft and sent it down toward the landing place.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Soldiers were sent to the mining areas to put down the riots.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

This sent the spacecraft around the moon instead of down to it.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Soldiers were sent to Pennsylvania to put down the riots.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The counterterrorism operation in Chechnya was instituted in 1999, when Russia sent troops for the second time since the collapse of the Soviet Union to put down a local separatist movement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16