Sentence examples for quell tensions from inspiring English sources
The university has sought to quell tensions by initiating several changes to the UC police standards.
Two hundred feet away, a local church group blared gospel music from a sound truck, hoping to quell tensions.
He cut short his vacation and helped Mr. Golden quell tensions, setting up an alliance of local Jews and blacks.
It is widely hoped in New England that Farrell, who was Boston's pitching coach under Terry Francona, will be able to quell tensions on Yawkey Way while guiding starters Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz back to their former prominence.
News of the attack of the day laborers from Farmingville spurred Suffolk County legislators from both parties to back the bill to pay for a hiring hall, which many immigrant advocates had seen as a way to quell tensions.
But it fell short of the outside help Kyrgyzstan's leaders have been pleading for to help quell tensions among ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, who clashed in four days of rioting in June that destroyed much of the southern city of Osh.
Its members provided a model of market-driven, export-oriented development that is being widely imitated.But ASEAN also won respect for successfully quelling tensions between its own members, such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
And yet Mrs. Clinton's involvement has done little to quell the tensions.
The Communist Party has struggled for years to quell ethnic tensions in Xinjiang, a vast and thinly populated area of desert and snowcapped peaks that has extensive oil and gas reserves.
(The Romney campaign was reacting to a statement put out by the American Embassy in Cairo that came hours before the attacks. The embassy's statement was an effort to quell the tensions. See a full timeline of events).
After a Presidents' Day weekend whodunit of who leaked what and why — not to mention a he-said, she-said back-and-forth on the Sunday shows and in news releases — President Obama took to the phones Tuesday afternoon to quell rising tensions with Senate Republicans after a draft of a White House immigration plan was somehow leaked to the news media.
