The strike acted as a calming influence and the Gunners created a slick try started and finished by winger Webster in the 22nd minute.

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"He was always a calming influence on the team and if stress took his life away, I find it difficult to believe, " said Donald.

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Because of public radiation fears broadcast in the press after the Fukushima accident, Japan cut the limit in half hoping it would have a calming influence.

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Lt Col Robin Lindsay, the soldiers' commanding officer, described Cpl Savage as an "exceptional soldier" and praised "his composed and professional approach (which) had a calming influence on his platoon".

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The allies, he believes, would be unwise to expect the Iranians to exercise a calming influence over Iraqi Shias while they haul Iran over the coals on the nuclear issue.

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But throughout her tenure she was a calming influence on society, particularly in the aftermath of the 2002 assassination of populist politician Pim Fortuyn and the murder two years later of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim extremist.

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