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Перевод: quell

[глагол]
подавлять; сокрушать; успокаивать

Тезаурус:

1. Dillons has moved quickly to appoint her successor in order to resolve uncertainty and quell rumours, but an announcement of a new manager at Kingston is not likely until later in January.
2. Such demands failed, however, to quell the discontent, which increasingly focused on Michael Heseltine as the only serious alternative to Mrs Thatcher, a view supported by polls that showed him to be the voters' overwhelming choice to replace her.
3. He took the opportunity to bring forward again the British view that West German rearmament could easily be achieved, and with the necessary level of supervision to quell the worries of France and others, within NATO itself.
4. Only a few years ago, in their efforts to quell the excessive and unhealthy use of laxatives, many doctors were insisting that it did not matter.
5. The authority was opposed to the use of the equipment by its force and was "very concerned that such weapons should not be used to quell public demonstrations or riots because of the likelihood of serious personal injury or death thereby resulting to individuals".
6. A family helps quell it."
7. Sea-bathing, walks on the steep coastal hills above the cottage - where Coleridge could watch the sunbeams "dance, like diamonds, on the main" - and the continuing assurance of Sara's love, were enough to quell any restless dissatisfaction while the last of a mild autumn remained.
8. Wilkinson attempted to quell any possible protest by the Elland Road contingent during Sunday's TV clash at Chelsea by calling for trust in his judgement.
9. But they could not quell Crown, who got his head to a free kick in the 68th minute, nor Bennett, who pounced.
10. Face-packs and facial saunas are good for city skins or for those times when you feel your skin needs a pick-me-up (during the winter perhaps) or to quell an eruption of spots.
11. Police stood by to quell any pro-independence demos, but the day passed quietly.
12. A mob of townsfolk boarded a ship loaded with corn and cut the rigging to prevent it sailing, so that the magistrates felt obliged to call in troops from Plymouth to quell the mob.
13. The government also issued regulations under the 1920 Emergency Powers Act and recalled troops from Ireland and abroad in order to quell the miners and their potential allies.