• During an interlude, attendees were soothed by a performance by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

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  • Italy trimmed the lead through two Bergamasco penalties, but Wilkinson's drop-goal soothed England nerves.

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  • Afterward, roughly one-third of the girls were reunited with their mothers, who hugged and soothed them for 15 minutes.

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  • The concerns of people living along the river have been soothed by the government's insistence that all is under control.

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  • There was no boss who "cleaned up after me and soothed people who felt I was steamrolling them, " she said.

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  • Painful restructuring soothed by the balm of public spending is about the best Japan can hope for at the moment.

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  • " When Ahab is soothed, he is "only soothed to deeper gloom.

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  • But human insecurities are not soothed by economic and demographic logic alone, nor even much by clear evidence that migrants are needed.

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  • During the violence in Gujarat one committee soothed youthful tempers by arranging a cricket game between teams composed equally of Hindus and Muslims.

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  • It rose together with gold, which gained 1.2%, as weak U.S. economic data soothed worries that the Federal Reserve would cut short stimulus measures.

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  • Ecuador and Venezuela sent troops to their borders, withdrawing them several days later after a meeting of regional leaders in the Dominican Republic soothed tensions.

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  • That said, the Brixton fighter may be soothed by promoter Frank Warren's assurances that a win will lead to another world-title tilt later this year.

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  • Oil prices beat a hasty retreat Monday, as the dollar firmed up and the prospect of diplomatic talks with Iran soothed fears of a military strike.

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  • Mr Kirchner is popular, thanks to a strong economic recovery and a nationalist stance that has soothed a country which felt humiliated by the financial collapse of 2001-02.

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  • Feelings have not been soothed by the release of a report documenting how major U.S. corporations minimize their British tax liabilities by channeling their British revenues through tax havens.

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  • While Mr Blair soothed and wooed middle England, it was Mr Brown who toiled to set in place the policy foundations that would define and sustain the party in office.

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  • Clinton boosters will hope that the types of downtrodden whites Mrs Clinton needs to win (including in the crucial Pennsylvania primary in April) will not be soothed by Mr Obama's talk.

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  • Yoga soothed India first, then reached Europe by 1880.

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  • Circulation can be improved and aches and pains soothed.

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  • The cortisol levels of the girls who were soothed by their mothers--either in person or on the phone--started dropping immediately after the stress test, and returned to normal after about a half-hour.

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  • Perhaps, however, one should not be too soothed.

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  • These responsibilities helped it deal with the 2008 crisis: in short order it defended the currency, loaned money to cash-strapped banks, gave forbearance on troubled loans, soothed the bond market and eased banks' capital requirements.

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  • On the other hand, investors might have been soothed by the Fed's lack of deflationary talk: Alan Greenspan and his colleagues will not want to make companies and consumers more frightened than they need be.

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  • Despite the volatility, however, Vodafone's emerging-markets exposure has soothed investors as European markets such as Spain, Italy and Portugal have become a drag on the company amid the European debt crisis and sluggish economic climate.

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  • Observing 25 infants aged 4 to 10 months in a five-day inpatient sleep training program, researchers monitored levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the babies, who were left to cry themselves to sleep without being soothed.

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  • Suddenly, I saw our battalion commander, Colonel Timothy Halloran (Happy was his nickname), take a seat on a nearby bench, and the mere reality of his presence soothed me a bit, as often happened when he hove into sight.

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  • However, the perception of Italy has improved recently: the euro crisis has cooled a bit, and the arrival in November of a technocratic government led by Mario Monti, a former European commissioner, promising lots of economic reforms, has soothed investors' collywobbles.

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  • You have soothed my conscience.

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  • At the climax of the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers, " hundreds of gun-toting police officers, state troopers and other riotous authority figures scramble after John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as they calmly ride a Chicago City Hall elevator while being soothed by a piped-in instrumental version.

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  • And this is why relaxation helps: It isn't until we're soothed in the shower or distracted by the stand-up comic that we're able to turn the spotlight of attention inward, eavesdropping on all those random associations unfolding in the far reaches of the brain's right hemisphere.

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