Word: quelling
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...Tuesday afternoon, Obama denounced Wright, saying "His comments were not only divisive... but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate." The candidate added, "Whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed as a consequence of this." Whether that is enough to quell the controversy is one thing. But it also continues to raise the question about the preacher at the center of the controversy: What exactly does he believe...
...Speaking of celebrity, does it ever get to be too much? Have you had to speak up to quell rumors?Yeah I guess so but I don't really have any bad rumors or anything. I answer questions. I'm very open with the media - when they ask me if there's something going on, I tell them. "No comment" is very seldom. I try my best to stay out of other people's stuff. If I say something about somebody who's not me, you probably get just a positive response...
...quell the impression that he's an élitist...
That's been a major embarrassment to Ethiopia and, by extension, the United States, which supported Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's decision to invade, on the premise that it would quell the deepening Islamic fundamentalism that seemed to be taking hold. So far, events in Somalia suggest that it has had the opposite effect, driving moderate factions of the Islamists out of the country and shifting power to the best-armed and most hardline among them...
...students to attend college, and thus needs to take action against these trends. Ted Kennedy ’56 (D-Mass.), and other leading Democrats in the House of Representatives have begun to take the necessary steps. Kennedy and his political colleagues should be commended for trying to quell the growing tendency to opt for private rather than federal loans with a new bill called the “Strengthening Student Aid for All?...