We take the old advice and the old adage that in the calm ahead we use the strength of purpose that we found in the storm.

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Professor Munro's report on child protection was written in what might be described as the calm after the storm.

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The remark referenced a gospel passage in which Jesus Christ sleeps amid a storm at sea and then awakes to calm the tempest.

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