Sentence examples for calm the protest from inspiring English sources

His performance seemed to calm the protest, at least temporarily.

That failed to calm the protests.

He had hoped to calm the protests by sacking Mr Djankov, a former World Bank economist who is respected by his peers but unpopular with the public because of his stringent austerity policies.

After a couple of days Mr Morales sought to calm the protests by announcing pay rises of up to 20% for public-sector workers and extra help for farmers.

George Jabbour, a former Syrian parliamentarian, said that he, like many Syrians, hoped that Mr. Assad's appointment of a new parliament, expected shortly, would help to calm the protests.

The PM tried to calm the protests on Tuesday by promising to slash prices and by sacking his finance minister.

After more than a week of protests, former Prime Minister Borisov tried to calm the protests by promising to slash electricity prices and by sacking his finance minister.

The prime minister tried to calm the protests on Tuesday by promising to slash prices and by sacking his finance minister.

"It's not going to calm the protests, it's just going to flame the protests even more".

Privert's selection could help calm the protests, which have been led by factions of Aristide's Lavalas movement.

The riot spread to Ely where magistrates attempted to calm the protests by ordering poor relief and fixing a minimum wage; see printed bill (reproduced at right).