quell betydelse and definition

Exempel på quell

• In this century, however, such criticisms have been quelled by the enormous prestige of standard modern logic, which is considered inviolate.

• When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups?

• The tie vote, however, did not quell agitation for greater specification of the national legislature's powers.

• In the absence of physical freedom children would break out and run wild within the main play room until quelled by staff.

• They like learning to assess the environment from the patient's experience of it, and with that knowledge they can quell disturbances.

• Nature's truths are so alien to our habits that we must quell our habitual practices of thought in order to recognize and represent nature's reality.

• Their irrationality, their propensity to violence and their inherent fanaticism required that collective action be promptly and decisively quelled.

• Their commitment within the framework of the conference extended to a temporary exchange arrangement to quell currency fluctuations and no more.