Quelling in a sentence

Dowd, the director of the ombuds office, said he didn’t think the department had made “substantial progress” in quelling foster parents’ feelings of being targeted by disruptive investigations.

In Geneva, the UN human rights office said it was concerned by the teen's killing and the subsequent violence and urged that allegations of disproportionate use of force by authorities in quelling the unrest be swiftly investigated.

Mr Biden’s announcement on border security and his visit to the border are aimed in part at quelling the political noise and blunting the impact of upcoming investigations into immigration promised by House Republicans.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has committed to sending troops to Haiti in an effort to assist with quelling the ongoing turmoil in that country.

Superman and Jordan Kent move to stop a raging forest fire, but Superman is distracted by how Lois is handling her first round of chemotherapy, leaving Jordan to take point in quelling the crisis.

The Quiet Beatle was usually granted a single, quelling track to write, record, and place on each album, while the band sometimes spent days on one of their tracks.

This parade was no small feat given the region’s long history of violently quelling worker demonstrations—especially after having just witnessed a gunman take one of their fellow worker’s lives.

Abubakar explained that the aircraft was deployed for reconnaissance missions, adding that the service’s regiment forces joined sister security services in quelling the unrest.

Batista would go on to make the American League All-Star team that summer, quelling any fear that the Orioles would suffer an immediate drop-off at the position after RipkenтАЩs retirement.

By quelling the flames of inflammation, Sugar Defender creates an environment conducive to optimal metabolic function.

It may also dissuade some from ever again taking more than they need, of anything, quelling all urges to be gluttonous or ravenous to the point of dysregulation or disease.

The Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson said that this round of tensions was a “spillover from the Gaza conflict,” adding that quelling it as soon as possible was “a top priority”.

Transport for London (TfL) has a very posh way of quelling abuse to its staff.

However, before they could introduce Western medicines and vaccinations, the “liberating” forces had to spend a decade quelling a rebellion against their rule.

Instead, the security forces have been focused on quelling protests, keeping Iraqis quarantined in their homes, and harassing U.S. military bases.

Roque Borges stood like a rock in the defence for DBO Fatorda, quelling all the forays that the St Rock’s team made.

And in the last two years, the Nigerian Army has proved its mettle as the last resort in quelling budding or entrenched acts of armed insurrection in different parts of the country.

Bustos also suggested that the group might want to look beyond merely quelling harassment and instead improve the diversity of its members.

In general, disabled people still do not expect places to be fully accessible, and there is a long way to go in quelling that anxiety, said Ross Atkin, a UK-based designer specializing in accessibility.

I say all this to say, the constant obsession and fetishizing of mixed-raced children needs to be called out in the hopes of quelling the messages such behaviors send.