It is time to calm down.

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.

Its promise to act was enough to calm markets.

The Chinese are doing almost everything possible to placate Russian concerns.

We call upon the belligerent parties to work further to defuse the situation.

It is time to calm down. And the best way to calm down is by taking the long view.

Thus, politicians have looked for other, quicker ways to mollify their constituents.

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Ecuador was therefore left without a Supreme Court, and the decision by Congress was not sufficient to placate the citizenry.

The Palestinian Authority had taken positive steps to calm the situation, in line with its firm commitment to the Sharm el Sheikh understandings.

Indeed, steps by the authorities to mollify public opinion will continue to be accompanied by increased pressure on the opposition and on civil society organizations.

To be sure, by sending mixed signals to financial markets, the Brazilians may have botched their attempt to cool down inflows.

Russia, sadly, had no one with the moral authority to soothe people s passions.

His Government hoped that Israel would exercise the maximum restraint and take steps to calm tensions.

As humans, what's important to remember is that we've developed, we've evolved over time to temper, or tame, these basic animal instincts.

Central authorities seemed to sense an immediate need to quell criticism of its controversial population control efforts.

A mere statement by the US that it has no intention to press this military advantage will not assuage China s fears.

This may be enough to calm financial markets for now, but it will not redress the more fundamental problems behind the current turmoil.

French politicians have been the most aggressive in putting political pressure on the ECB to relax its interest rate normalization policy.

This is not, of course, the first time in history that credit expansion has been used to assuage the concerns of a group that is being left behind, nor will it be the last.

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When protests first started in Yemen in January, President Ali Abdullah Saleh promised not to run for re election in 2013 as an attempt to quiet angry protesters.

HTS claimed that the latest offensive was not 'against the people of Ma'arat Al Nu'man', but 'against a few corrupt forces in the city' and that talks were being held to deescalate the situation.

China s cooperative approach on Japanese imports was a response to Kan s ongoing effort to calm international concern about the safety of Japan s agricultural products.

On the government s part, the more open media in Sichuan may be mere posturing to appease critics after the Tibet upheaval and the scuffle over the Olympic torch.

Indeed, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the Labor Party leader, might be ready to pay a high political price during an electoral season by accepting even a new lull that is intermittently violated by Hamas.

Such opposition seems counter intuitive, given that the ECB s mere announcement of the OMT program calmed sovereign debt markets and reduced borrowing costs in peripheral countries.

The best way to allay European fears and prevent uncontrolled migration is to establish positive incentives, and the practical means,for potential migrants to stay home most significantly by creating jobs in the southern Mediterranean.

Meanwhile, the Sino Russian relationship has achieved an unprecedented degree of warmth. The Chinese are doing almost everything possible to placate Russian concerns.

To address that possible scenario the United Nations must establish punitive and targeted sanctions against those who try to spoil Somalia's chance for lasting peace by undermining the ongoing efforts to pacify the country and by frustrating the effectiveness of the Government in upholding the primacy of the rule of law.

President Hu Jintao s visit to Washington was a clear attempt to de escalate tensions with the US over American arms sales to Taiwan, the renminbi s exchange rate, and Obama s meeting with the Dalai Lama.

Here, too, Putin tries to walk on both sides of the street, calling Koba a tyrant to sooth the wounded feelings the Baltic leaders, yet instantly qualifying his remarks by saying that Stalin was no Hitler.

Regrettably, despite developments regarding a return to dialogue between the two sides and serious efforts to calm the situation on the ground, nearly every day of the past week has witnessed the killing of Palestinian civilians, including five children, by the occupying forces.

The West should seek to mollify Russia on core strategic questions like NATO expansion. But that will not help Putin to overcome the source of Russia s weakness, which lies in his inability or unwillingness to see the Soviet Union for the failure that it was.

But all who had feared a great Israeli offensive in Gaza should make every effort to strengthen the truce and create a climate for relaxing tensions that could, with time, lead to a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.

Just days before the World Cup started, Dilma was imagining this Monday, July 14 as the day she would win in advance the Octobre presidential election, with Brazil champion on its own land would suffice to calm down the civliian protests against her administration, or at least, it would be useful as a distraction for a while.

But one benefit of this administrative bias over the past 30 years is that, at least most of the time, China has been cautious about overheating and determined to step in whenever necessary to cool the economy, despite the protests of smart market participants.