How To Use Quelling In A Sentence
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We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
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The Greek system is dedicated to quelling young men's anxiety about submitting themselves to four years of sissy-pants book learning by providing them with a variety of he-man activities: drinking, drugging, ESPN watching and the sexual mistreatment of women.
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She slid into paroxysms of laughter that she tried quelling with a tumblerful of Southern Comfort.
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The literature on policing and criminology is loaded with examples of successful crime reduction that began with seemingly small things, like quelling aggressive solicitation.
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the quelling of the rebellion
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I get the impression that some in the broadcast media are more interested in spreading gloom to garner ratings than quelling people's uneasiness, or giving solid facts.
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You'll be amazed at how much difference sunlight makes to quelling those anxious feelings.
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The idea of quelling the legitimate resistance of an occupied people by the application of massive, gratuitous violence and murder, is not peculiar to Japan.
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At length, Brandon entirely subduing and quelling the stubborn hypocrisy of the culprit, the man turned towards him a look between wrath and beseechingness, muttering, --
Paul Clifford — Volume 04
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I simply nodded, quelling that feisty, fiery side of me, and offered yet another ghost of a smile.
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The key early win was getting an interim city council elected on May 5, only two weeks after forces arrived to begin quelling widespread disorder.
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Concentration on the self, quelling the passions, and becoming calm are the hallmarks of this path, the goal of which is bliss.
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The new party general secretary will no doubt be expected to play a role in quelling the ongoing unrest among hill tribes.
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He spent five years quelling rebellions and establishing Norman authority, building many castles and stocking them with men brought from Normandy.
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After quelling the crowd somewhat, he and Mr. Timberlake gave each other a high-five.
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Yes, a week at most," says he, and pointed out how he had sited his left and right attacks opposite the strongest points in the rebel defences, which our gunners were pounding with red-hot shot, keeping the pandy fire-parties busy quelling the flames which you could see here and there behind the walls, flickering crazily through the heat-haze.
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The police succeeded in quelling the riot.
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His murder is the latest in a series of high-profile killings of left activists which human rights advocates say is part of a military-backed campaign aimed at silencing government critics and quelling dissent.
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His fear bubbled to the surface, quelling the fire of his enthusiasm as he saw how irregular her breathing was.
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After hours spent quelling the fire with cold water, ‘he succumbed to a fever so malign that in just a few days he expired in the icy embrace of death.’
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Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
