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Example sentences for: quell

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In issuing what amounted to a public vote of confidence in the market, IBM was actually continuing a venerable tradition of Establishment attempts to quell selling panics by intervening loudly and decisively.
He even tried to quell the GOP's abortion controversy, seeking to moderate (if only a tiny bit) the language of the 1996 GOP platform.
Back then Stephanopoulos himself helped quell bimbo eruptions and parroted Clinton's lying denials.
The NYT says that the choice of the Republican ex-senator is an effort to quell bitter Republican criticism of Reno, exemplified by Wednesday's call by Sen. Trent Lott for her resignation.
More resources for economic development and alternative crops are the only way to quell guerrilla violence, ensure political stability, and cut drug production.