For example, many people might feel reassured by announcements explaining why a train is stopped.
In Australia, more than one million people watched a fireworks display over Sydney harbour, seemingly reassured by announcements that thousands of extra police had been drafted in to patrol the major cities.
Sky News showed the same pictures of queues over and over again, even after the Government had announced it was standing behind Northern Rock – instead of reassuring people the announcement made them worried.
After four hours or so, the cabin manager made an announcement, reassuring us that we had enough fuel.
When the F.D.I.C. decided to run a public-service announcement reassuring Americans that their bank deposits were insured, it asked Orman to appear in the spot.
This is reassuring given the recent announcement by Rush Limbaugh, a chap who talks on the radio, that he is interested in buying into the St . Louis Rams
"All indications point to this announcement as reassuring for the future of the Internet, free speech and American innovation".
And to have Chertoff, after last week's scathing attacks on the Department of Homeland Security's incompetence and neglect, be the government spokesman for the port announcement is hardly reassuring.
I am reassured by his announcement that lottery funding is to be restored to the arts.
A TG fan troubled by this might have felt reassured by the announcement of the Desertshore project in 2007.
