"Disturbing Lebanon will not abate the uprisings in Syria".
"This debauchery will abate," the wronged Queen Vashti sings.
The parliamentary victory should be enough to abate the immediate crisis.
Clean-coal technology can abate the worst pollution, at a cost.
In Janesville, they seem to channel, rather than abate, the chaos of mass unemployment.
It would leak through the ceiling and fall on their carpet, and we'd have to abate the month's rent".
What is clear, though, is that rather than abate, the wholesale tracking and collection of information about people's behaviour while on the move is set to increase dramatically.
Prolonged Israeli shelling and air strikes have killed dozens of Gazans, both militants and bystanders, but done nothing to abate the Qassams.
A twisted detour into an abattoir of mutilated bodies and pools of crimson also introduced manipulatable environmental hazards to abate the incoming hoards.
No, the prime minister says, because the budget emergency started to abate the instant a government came in and showed that it was determined to address it.
They might also, hopefully, abate the anger that will be inflicted on innocent Labour councillors standing in this year's local elections.
