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Commander Adama of the Galactica suspects that the Cylons are up to something, and informs the President of his concerns, but the President states that it was the Cylons who sued for peace through Count Baltar, and tries to allay Adama's fears.
In an attempt to allay concerns about his being a dangerous leftist ( as Velasco's vice president he had expressed warm sympathy for Cuban leader Fidel Castro Ruz and made a much-criticized trip to the Soviet Union ), Arosemena named a cabinet that included Liberals and even Conservatives and quickly sent former President Galo Plaza on a goodwill trip to Washington.

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To answer his questions, they summon horrible apparitions, each of which offers predictions and further prophecies to allay Macbeth s fears.
Faced with accusations from Freud of orchestrating a campaign against him and his daughter Jones sought to allay Freud s concerns without abandoning the critical standpoint he had adopted.
After an engine fell off a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 causing it to crash with the loss of all passengers and crew in 1979, Conrad spearheaded McDonnell Douglas s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to allay the fears of the public and policymakers, and save the plane s reputation.
The role of early biwa hoshi in delivery the vocal performance of battle tales “ to allay the fury of slain warriors ghosts ” further implies a shamanistic qualification of the blind.
One reason for the project extension was to allay residents noise concerns.

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The fact that the sultan would be responsible to Europe for the realization of his promises would serve to allay the natural suspicions of the insurgents.
Titus returned quickly to Rome – hoping, says Suetonius, to allay any suspicions about his conduct.
Porter's usual tactic was to raise British colors to allay the British captain's suspicions, then once invited on board, he would reveal his true allegiance and purpose.
" He sends one of his courtiers, Don Alvarez ( Claude Rains ), as his ambassador to allay the suspicions of Queen Elizabeth I ( Flora Robson ) about the great armada he is building to invade England.
The agreement was meant to allay Arab suspicions of possible European colonialist or imperialist ambitions.
Louis's superior coolness of mind permits him to allay Charles's suspicions and to regain his liberty.
To allay northern suspicions and prevent conflict, Qian Chu moved with 3000 members of his household to the Song capital, Bianjing ( now Kaifeng ), while nominally remaining a king.
When Vito's youngest son, Michael, offers to kill both Sollozzo and Police Captain McCluskey, who is on Sollozzo's payroll, Clemenza teaches him how to use the gun and instructs him on how to act in order to allay Sollozzo's suspicions and what to do after the killing.

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The Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) between France and Great Britain included a clause restricting French rights to fortify Dunkirk, to allay British fears of it being used as an invasion base.
The British dropped millions of flysheets over Germany to allay fears of a punitive peace that would destroy the German state.
He requested that the US provide arms and financial assistance to Afghanistan to allay concerns in Afghanistan regarding possible Soviet aggressions following the British withdrawal from India.
Hamilton tried to allay popular fears that the new federal government would be no less abusive than the British government had been.

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Indeed, occasional speeches by leading Nationalists designed to allay Liberal fears that " Home Rule really would be Rome Rule ," were in 1911 clearly making some Catholic churchmen anxious.

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By the 19th century, laudanum was used in many patent medicines to " relieve pain ... to produce sleep ... to allay irritation ... to check excessive secretions ... to support the system ... as a soporific ".
" These provisions were included in the Constitution to allay the fears of Hindus and Muslims that an ethnic-Fijian ( and Christian-dominated ) government might compel their children to receive Christian religious instruction through the school system, as well as fears of some Christians that employers, many of whom are Indo-Fijian, might require participation in Hindu festivals.
In response Sony introduced MiniDisc which provided a copy control system that seemed to allay record companies ' fears.

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Jim much preferred general family audiences, but Cooney was able to allay Jim's fears of being " ghettoized " into children television.
After spending the Easter with Charlemagne at Liege, she visited Carloman at Seltz: her motives for visiting him are unknown, although it is suggested that she was trying to allay his fears of his brother, or persuade him to be more co-operative with Charlemagne, or even secure his agreement and collusion in her plans.
Clifford attempted to allay such fears when, responding to a query about whether he was a hawk ( favoring aggressive military action ) or a dove ( favoring a peaceful resolution to the Vietnam War ), he remarked, " I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions.
His role was to be available to be consulted by any member or former member of the security and intelligence services who had " anxieties relating to the work of his or her service " that it had not been possible to allay through the ordinary processes of management-staff relations, including proposals for publications.
Alexander Hamilton realized while serving as Washington's top aide that a strong central government was necessary to avoid foreign intervention and allay the frustrations due to an ineffectual Congress.
These reforms were not calculated to allay the fears of those who thought that the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSČ ) leading role was critical to socialist development.
He would often allay suspicion of his motives by insisting he was in New York " to observe and learn ".
There is a widespread perception among ethnic Fijians that most of the nation's wealth is in Indo-Fijian hands, and this clause was written partly to allay their fears.
During the earthquake of Lisbon, 1755, which was distinctly felt at Cadiz, he took observations and did much to allay the apprehensions of the public, for which he was ennobled by the king of Spain.
A photo of Humphrey and Mrs Blair was released, though this did little to allay fears that he would be forced out.
Dr Cox criticised the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) for " up with the safe conclusion to allay public fears, rather than a significant conclusion which is that it was quite a complex issue ".
His general Xue Rengui thought of a stratagem to get the emperor across and allay his fear of seasickness: on a clear day, the emperor was invited to meet a wise man.
A commercial and critical success, it sold 1. 5 million units worldwide, and the strong reactions of players to the game's cliffhanger ending impelled the developers to come forward and allay concerns that it was released unfinished.
This program was initially created in order to allay doubt and uncertainty over the investment into virtual cards.
In Europe, as John Ruskin said, and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the " chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century ", and " the dominant art ", with the result that in the following period people were " apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity " In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: the acceptance of descriptive symbols, a curiosity about the facts of nature, the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature, and the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved.
The memorial, together with the emperors reply, was published in the Peking Gazette but failed to allay the excitement then raging in Europe over the question. In 1706, Kangxi decided to send Bouvet to the Vatican to settle the Chinese Rites controversy, but took back his decision later.
To allay the public excitement, a Star-chamber inquiry was ordered, and it was held on 23 June ; A True and Summarie Reporte of the proceedings was published, and the verdict of suicide upheld.

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He also championed the Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), and in the period leading up to the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, he spearheaded a campaign to allay growing public suspicion of the deal by promising the eventual release of the draft negotiating texts.
Expertise works through a logic of choice, through a transformation of the ways in which individuals constitute themselves, through " inculcating desires for self-development that expertise itself can guide and through claims to be able to allay the anxieties generated when the actuality of life fails to live up to its image 1999: 88.
Afterward, she briefly takes up crimefighting with Dragon and fellow martial artist Ben Turner, to allay her feelings of purposelessness, saying " I tolerate Dragon because danger seems to cling to him like fly to honey ... and without danger my life is empty!

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