Eksempler på quieten

• Until robots function as social beings (if ever they do), it is appropriate to give the user this power to unilaterally quieten the other participant.

• I hope that the murmurs of disapproval are now quietened and that we can proceed with an examination of this important matter.

• We have the vague impression that things have quietened down.

• He was given a pink slip to quieten him down because he was kicking up such a din in the polling station.

• We will run into extraordinary difficulties in quietening the demands of people who have slipped outside in this way.

• When public opinion is too restive to be quietened by indifference?

• It has been quietened down as being something which it is almost indecent to talk about—the future state of our country.

• Could you please either quieten down or go and have a coffee, and come back when we have finished discussing the important issues?

• This transfer is presumed to quieten concerns over the possible dangers to competition arising from the alliance.

• It seems to me that we have periods in which things quieten down a bit, yet we never seem to take the lead.

• In order to quieten criticism we have an inquiry.

• I hope that it was not just a clever performance or an act to quieten our fears so that he can gain time.

• It would, to some extent, quieten the commercial mind.

• It is not our intention to keep troops there on that scale and in that number when the situation quietens down.

• I have long felt that we are not getting information, but that we were merely getting answers which were destined, hopefully, to quieten us.