The quelling of the rebellion. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Education is itself one of the greatest factors in quelling sedition. From Wordnik.com. [Present Conditions and Future Prospects in India] Reference
An early statement from Obama regarding that would be helpful in quelling them. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Chavez Attacks U.S. Efforts In Haiti: ‘They Are Occupying Haiti Undercover’] Reference
I think this is just their way of kind of quelling the rumors and telling people, "Leave us alone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2009] Reference
The death-quelling of Danes, e'en as duly behoved. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
For the quelling of death to the folk of the Danes. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Hath bound to earth, its light in darkness quelling?. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
Destroyer himself, quelling this weapon of Drona's son. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
With mood-care they mourned their own liege lord's quelling. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Light stripes may suffice for quelling the less nocent dunces. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Frederic Barbarossa, to aid him in quelling the insurrection headed by. From Wordnik.com. [A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient)] Reference
The controls backfired: they triggered a recession without quelling inflation. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Of Election-Year Economics] Reference
Union men, engaged in transporting troops to assist in quelling "the rebellion.". From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
Not to mention the satisfaction of quelling the primal need to gather food for the winter. From Wordnik.com. [Liz O'Connell: 5 Tips for a Memorable Fall Outing] Reference
He shot the quarrel-quelling stream in their direction, and the pair scampered away to safety. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
False rumors now and then ran through the city, raising and quelling the passions like a tide. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
A good series against a powerful Pakistan bowling side would go a long way towards quelling doubts. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Trott and Eoin Morgan have chance to prove their Ashes worth] Reference
Charlotte had found it a task to keep them under good discipline without quelling their high spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times] Reference
Blank, to send his command of six companies of infantry to C---- at once to assist in quelling the riots. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Finally, quelling her terrors somehow, she knitted her brow as she stooped to kneel down beside the scythe. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
China is turning to vocational training as a means of prolonging its economic ascendancy and quelling unrest. From Wordnik.com. [No Degrees Necessary] Reference
The city authorities were requested to use their influence in quelling the riots but seemed unequal to the emergency. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
But it had not the smallest effect in the direction of quelling their desire to come to close quarters with the fugitives. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
In those places where you will fight for quelling the force of this weapon the Kauravas will become more powerful than you. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Catholics, with Lord Fingal at their head, came forward and rendered government important services in quelling the rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Prized equally for its wonderful aroma, flavor and tummy-soothing, itch-quelling coolness, it is still ascribed magical powers. From Wordnik.com. [Oregano, basil and other members of the mint family dominate the herb garden] Reference
It was a task too difficult to ascertain with precision the lowest degree of force competent to the quelling of the insurrection. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The other welcome fellow-worker was 'Maister Doctor Guinne;' according to Florio, 'in this perilous, crook't passage a monster-quelling. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
All peaceable and well-disposed inhabitants are called upon to assist the authorities in quelling disorder and apprehending the rioters. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Such a person is so astonished at resistance as to be incapable of quelling it; the very hardihood of the rebellion ensures its success. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
Dramatic improvements in power-plant safety have also been made, at least in most Western nations, quelling fears of doomsayers worldwide. From Wordnik.com. [Is This The Hour Of Nuclear Power?] Reference
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