The spread of surveillance cameras has also dampened violence, deterring criminals and emboldening informants because suspects, when nabbed, often blame cameras.
This would, in turn, dampen the violence associated with black market competition".
In the towns of Ramadi and Falluja west of Baghdad, part of the Sunni-dominated swath of Iraq where attacks on American troops have occurred with almost predictable frequency, some residents and soldiers said they doubted that the deaths of Mr. Hussein's sons would quickly dampen the violence.
Dr. Albright had summoned Mr. Barak and Mr. Arafat to Paris to try to dampen the violence that has resulted in the deaths of more than 60 Palestinians and threatens to unravel many of the gains made in seven years of Middle East peacemaking by the Clinton administration.
As with most other deployments, the operation did initially dampen the violence in Acapulco, but the battle for the city continued and homicides rose once again.
Though officials have had some success dampening the violence in the North Caucasus over the years, the simmering Islamist insurgency that began in the ashes of Chechnya remains potent.
The war's staunchest supporters have seized on the reduced death toll in July for American troops as a sign that an influx of troops is dampening sectarian violence in the country.
The shadowy movement behind the shootings, bombings and gruesome beheadings keeps regenerating.Critics say that although the free hand the army enjoys in the area seems to have been effective in dampening the violence, it is stoking the anger and alienation on which the insurgency feeds.
Hopes for a Saudi peace proposal were dampened by escalating violence.
MR. GORE -- The first priority has to be on ending the violence, dampening down the tensions that have arisen there.
It is not high art, and it suffers from a PG-13 that dampens the grisly violence and periodic sexuality, but it's rarely boring and often genuinely amusing.
