Sentence examples for dampen hostilities from inspiring English sources
Effigies of hated players have been burned in the streets; on some occasions, Test matches have even been played in neutral countries to dampen hostilities.
His supporters had pulled out all the stops to dampen hostility towards him, but even Henrick's intricate lizard dissertation had failed to convince Sam that David was not an anti-Semite.
In remarkable contrast, the US Treasury Department's intensified and widely acknowledged efforts in recent months to dampen hostility and unnecessary confrontation between the two sides were a welcome relief worldwide.
The United States is eminently poised today to offer its services and goodwill for mediation -- highly appropriate at this stage -- following the US Treasury Department's intensified and widely acknowledged efforts in recent months to dampen hostility and unnecessary confrontation between the two sides.
Rising stock ownership, Klein writes, dampened hostility toward corporate enterprise.
Instead, addressing a major source of Russian anxieties by taking future NATO expansion off the table could help dampen Russia-Western hostilities. .
In a seeming attempt to dampen the rhetoric, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, agreed both countries would seek to end hostilities in Ukraine and also agreed that all evidence, including flight recorders, would be handed to international investigators.
Hostilities were therefore resumed.
The hostilities are withering.
