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Example sentences for: quell

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When Kedah and Perak sought British help against Thailand, the British sided with the Thais to quell revolts — anything for a quiet life.
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.
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.
Unless the publisher can quell such doubts, students won't pay premium prices for books with lasting value, so publishers won't provide them.
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.