In his calm and lucid way, he has made one of the emblematic coming-to-America stories of our time.
Not so long ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was lauded for his calm demeanour and for practising a politics of decency and reconciliation.
His calm manner, his respect for the defence lawyers, helped to persuade doubters that this was not a kangaroo court with a foregone verdict.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the interim Prime Minister, has, as expected, been asked to form the new Government: his calm, unfussy and low-profile approach has won widespread approval.
"His calm and dignified counsel, his compassionate and resolute foresight and his caring understanding have reassured many in the midst of turmoil and trouble, " he said.
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After eight years on sport programmes he moved to current affairs with Nationwide, where his calm, friendly and efficient handling of a complex programme earned him admirers.
The 21-year-old took 1-34 and hit the winning run on his debut in Wednesday's one-wicket win in Adelaide and his calm manner led to talk of a World Cup spot.
"Brian Cobby, the third voice of the Speaking Clock, used to receive fan mail from people who used the service late at night just to hear his calm voice, " says McEvoy.
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When Mr Brown took over, his calm handling of incidents as varied as a terrorist plot and summer floods raised hopes that he could at least run a competent if uninspiring government.
He has used his calm skills to tread a careful line on such controversial issues as the EU Rapid Reaction Force and British participation in National Missile Defence, as well as overseeing British forces in military action in Afghanistan.
Mr Obama seems to many, by reason of his race, his calm intelligence, his youthful good looks and his powerful oratorical skills, to be well suited to draw a line beneath the bitter Bush years and to repair America's torn relationship with the outside world.
"Hmmmm, " Thompson said when shown a photograph of the billboard, keeping his trademark calm.
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There are reasons Jacobs can maintain his Zenlike calm: Despite all the concerns, business is good.
His unpretentious calm may suit the chancellor better than the erratic grandstanding of Mr Sarkozy.
G4S told BBC Sport Buckles was talking specifically about the danger of transporting cash in South Africa but, nevertheless, the damage had been done and Jordaan loses his usual calm and composure when asked about the comments.
He said that no curfew would be imposed for now and reiterated his call for calm.
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His manner is calm, but he has seen plenty of service fighting scary financial fires.
Mr Peres seems to have been successful in persuading Mr Sharon to calm his personal attacks on Yasser Arafat.
But one day, says Mr. Johnson, a camp counselor called, saying his son was calm and behaving better than he had ever seen.
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Many hold the coach responsible for his team's World Cup failure, and his style - calm, academic, almost aloof - is right out of fashion.
She also tried to calm his fears that he'd have to stop eating all of the foods he loved in order to lose weight.
Sabathia took exception with what he thought was unfair treatment by plate umpire Jordan Baker in the third inning on a 2-2 pitch and Girardi had to make a mound visit to calm his ace.
Others maintain he is still running last year's presidential campaign, and that he needs to show himself as more presidential, by using his position to calm and explain, rather than merely echo the public's frustrations at Wall Street.
Campbell tried to calm his wife down, then told her that because he had radioed to the station that he was in danger, his fellow officers would be trying to reach them, and he had to leave her to find them.
He is gambling that his referendum promise will calm rather than stir the fury of Eurosceptics both inside and outside his party, that he can persuade 26 other European leaders to give the UK the deal he wants and that voters will then choose to back it.
Still the mistakes continued, with several returns flying off his racquet frame, but Federer stayed calm in sweltering conditions to wrap up his 10th win in 10 matches against his opponent as a weary Robredo flicked a forehand well wide.
My boyfriend reaches his hand out to calm him and Lamby lunges, biting him.
In this respect, Mr Tang seemed to be doing his bit to restore calm.
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