Despite initial concerns that HCRT-based drugs exert their effects on reinforcement processes indirectly through gross disruption of sleep/wake function and locomotor activity, a series of reports over the past decade have largely assuaged these reservations.
Still, such well-meaning rules may not be enough to assuage everyone's reservations.
The critical player is Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, who has criticized the treaty but also signaled that his reservations could be assuaged.
Offering a clear explanation of a policy, particularly call-ahead seating and seating by party size, may assuage guests who would otherwise be unhappy, but accepting reservations for large parties is a chancy tactic and seating VIPs ahead of others might well be seen as unfair no matter how it is handled.
But his position that both sides will able to "express reservations" (a handy device, some argue, for assuaging domestic opposition) threatens to undermine his own work.
Mrs. Able also reported that there were some parents who had reservations about bringing a military cadet corps to the high school, but such feelings were assuaged after the parents received more information about the program.
This page had many reservations about this new security program, but Mr. Ridge's Homeland Security Department has gone a long way toward assuaging widespread concerns that the United States would excessively humiliate certain travelers, or treat them in an undignified manner.
Still, the votes are the thing here, and whatever doubts or reservations Senator Jeff Flake, of Arizona, had last week when he called for the F.B.I. to be given time to review the Kavanaugh situation, he appears to have been assuaged.
This did not assuage Mr. Seaton.
That did not assuage his critics.
It did little to assuage the doubters.
