Grandma's singing could always allay my childhood fears.    From LearnThat.org. 

Another fear Obama isn't going to be able to allay is that of the effects of spending a few trillion bucks we don't have: higher taxes, higher national debt, higher inflation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fears fuel emotional health care protests] Reference

Now all of this is to kind of allay fears that have arisen here, and there's good reason for that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2001] Reference

The government has to do something to kind of allay their fears or we'll never get on track, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2009] Reference

So for Secretary Rice, it's a very delicate balance to kind of allay European concerns, at the same time, not compromise any U.S. intelligence matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2005] Reference

Ammonia is; the only remedy to allay the irritation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference

Linking CFS to an unusual virus won't allay the epidemic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clue To Chronic Fatigue] Reference

"We want to allay these fears, starting with the road shows.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Greece Seeks to Woo European Investors] Reference

The company has several safeguards in place to allay concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [GM Salmon: FDA Hears Arguments To Decide Approval Of 'Frankenfish' (VIDEO)] Reference

Eberhart seems the perfect message man to allay such anxieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Nobody Knows] Reference

The FAA's ongoing scrutiny should help allay public safety concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying High Again?] Reference

Luckily, this is a perfect moment to allay the fear of higher costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delirium Of Democracy] Reference

True enough, the ploy worked to allay public fears in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Baker's Biggest Test] Reference

Looking to its neighbour may reinforce rather than allay China's concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [China keeps economic triumphalism in check] Reference

A tiny crab cut  five ways did little to allay the hunger yowling in their bellies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eden Tree] Reference

Your personal homeland security lies in how you arrange your money to allay the risks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rolling The Market Dice] Reference

That's industry's greatest fear, which NIST will attempt to allay in meetings this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Of The Future] Reference

Clinton tried to allay their fears, offering a huge federal subsidy for low-income workers.    From Wordnik.com.  ['A Walk In Space'] Reference

We hope the forum and the steps RIM has already taken in India will allay official concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlackBerry jam] Reference

She takes the sandwich from him and bites into it, an uxorial gesture meant to allay suspicion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oscars] Reference

Farrakhan's attempts to allay white suspicion are causing him problems among long-time supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing A Different Tune] Reference

Nevertheless, company officials have been meeting with the studios to allay any fears they may have.    From Wordnik.com.  [R.I.P., Dear DVD] Reference

Central banker Fitrat, in a Wednesday address, sought to allay fears that Kabul Bank may be insolvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghan Central Banker Backs Troubled Lender] Reference

BRAND: I was not 13, just, you know, to allay any suspicions that I'm a lot younger than I actually am.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer Songs: 'Lean On Me,' 'Fight The Power'] Reference

The home-sales data didn't allay concerns over how the U.S. will perform in the second half of this year, said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euro Flirts With $1.30] Reference

"These results did nothing to allay the rising fear that global economies risk sinking back into the red," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Went] Reference

Cancio's last hurdle was to allay the suspicions of Cuban air-traffic controllers as he veered north toward Miami.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flight To Freedom] Reference

This will also allay fears that the benefits of the program could all be undone by an eventual debt restructuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Renaissance] Reference

Afghanistan's central bank governor sought to allay fears about the fiscal health of his country's largest lender.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's News] Reference

Mild conditions on a clear flight path coupled with the soothing voice of the first officer didn't allay my unease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story to Forget] Reference

The results, showing only seven out of the 91 banks failed the tests, helped allay concern about the euro zone's debt problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasury Prices Fall Ahead of Sales] Reference

Self-styled "food adventurer" Gates attempts to allay our fears: MSG, for example, could be no worse for us than, say, mushrooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonight's TV highlights] Reference

Meanwhile, they are going out of their way to allay fears, agreeing to spin off TCI cable properties in Bell Atlantic territories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Brother's Holding Company] Reference

Sitting in for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was at her ailing father's bedside in Little Rock, Gore tried to allay those fears last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctors Under The Knife] Reference

But Boston Logan Airport, where two of the hijacked planes originated on September 11, has taken huge steps to allay travelers 'concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Safe Are America's Skies?] Reference

As the country seeks to allay fears of its growing global influence, it has turned to the admiral as the exemplar of its "peaceful rise".    From Wordnik.com.  [Zheng He: messenger of peace, or of power?] Reference