Sentence examples for soothe tempers from inspiring English sources
UN peacekeepers quickly intervened to soothe tempers.
Profuse American apologies and assurances have done little to soothe tempers.
This time, however, some workers said that money alone would not be enough to soothe tempers.
The French were arrogant and failed to keep promises; Abu Dhabi was feeling slighted.The French moved quickly to soothe tempers.
He said that he and other Haitian-American pastors had been working hard to soothe tempers, to urge people to resist incitements to violence against the police.
In the middle of this week, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin stepped in to soothe tempers, saying he would have increased cultural subsidies if he had inherited a stronger economy from the Socialists two years ago.
Mr. Letts (above right, with Ian Westerfer) turns in a quiet gem of a performance as the anxious critic-turned-dramaturge, who is kept busy taming egos and soothing tempers even as he struggles with his own flagrant neuroses.
Then, on January 28th, the pope himself expressed "full and unarguable solidarity" with the Jewish people.In this section Fixing a broken world A less than perfect touch Reprints Related items Catholics and Jews: The weight of historyOct 23rd 2008That soothed tempers.
The granting of more cultural and political rights, and the admission of past discrimination, have soothed tempers not only among Turkish Kurds, but among their ethnic kin in Iraq, Iran and Syria.Yet a reason for the success of Turkey's kinder, gentler approach is that it takes place in the context of a regional power vacuum.
Mary Bossis, a professor and security expert at the University of Piraeus, said that Mr. Papandreou would need to soothe the tempers of many angry Greeks who still did not understand why they were paying the price for the profligacy of others.
