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...Czech society has grown somewhat more tolerant; two mosques and about six prayer halls have sprung up around the country, catering for the republic's roughly 20,000-strong Muslim population. But after 9/11, tolerance gave way to fears of militance, which the country's Muslims have worked to allay. "If there are any [militant] forces, they don't need the cover of a mosque," says Vladimír Sánka, chairman of the Center of Muslim Communities in the Czech Republic. Milos Kejzlar, the 41-year-old math teacher leading the petition drive in Teplice, remains unconvinced...
Rosenthal said he authorized all personnel on the first three floors to leave the building to allay concerns among staff caused by the suspicious package...
...Angeles. "Surgery is a major procedure." Gregory says most women ask for C-sections because they're afraid of complicated deliveries or long, painful labor. Though she has performed a few elective procedures, she doesn't do them routinely and says good doctors should be able to allay women's fears by discussing the use of drugs and breathing techniques, which can ease pain...
Rosenthal also met individually with most of the counselors and said he attempted to “allay any anxieties” they had about the change. He said that Weylman is the only counselor with whom...
...r?sum?: his manifest lack of experience in Seoul's payola-driven politics, a system that the great majority of voters already viewed with distrust and disdain. Once in office, Roh's amateurish and inconstant performance, as well as his own cynical attempts to game the system, did little to allay popular misgivings about the health of the democracy. Recall that, after barely eight months in office, a frustrated and tactically outclassed Roh toyed with pulling a coup d'?tat against himself by demanding an extra-constitutional referendum to back his policies and threatening to resign from the presidency...