Keith Olbermann, Fox's on-site reporter, nonetheless walked over to Bud Selig, baseball's commissioner, seated behind home plate, who said he didn't think the Clemens incident required immediate attention because it was quelled so quickly and the Mets did not demand Clemens's immediate ejection.
If there was any thought that yesterdays mass, organized protests would be the last, it was quelled the moment, right after midnight, that Hosni Mubarak addressed the country.
Any believer who has the means and strength to stand up and resist oppression is commanded in very unequivocal terms to fight against it until it is quelled.
The revolt, which claimed at least 20 million lives before it was quelled, making it the bloodiest civil war in history, suggests caution for those who hope for a popular uprising — a Chinese Spring — today.
But from 1904 to 1907 a great war of resistance broke out, nearly expelling the Germans before it was quelled with extreme savagery by tactics including extermination, hangings, and forced detention in concentration camps.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fight at a troubled South Los Angeles high school escalated into a campuswide brawl involving as many as 600 students before it was quelled by police officers in riot gear.
The uprising came close to threatening Baghdad itself, and it was only through the intervention of the capable Harthama that it was quelled, with Abu 'l-Saraya being captured and executed in October.
He has been trying to quell expectation but I don't think he's quelling it enough - I can't describe how big a struggle it is going to be for him.
Bilge Ebiri of Vulture agreed: "As an actor, he can't seem to muster more than a placid, slightly befuddled look — and he uses it regardless of whether he's quelling hidden emotions or emptying his soul to the woman he secretly loves".
That is what's quelling the optimism fed by other positive-looking data.
