| The Prime Minister instructed Dyikanbayev to becalm the population and journalists of the country as the issue had been solved. |
| An imprisoned man who asks for an Italian book to becalm his fever may be safely presumed to know that language. |
| Perhaps it was asking too much of the stewards to becalm the inevitable throng. |
| One sail is also said to becalm another when the wind is aft. |
| Under two lower topsails and a reefed foresail the barque seemed to race with a long, steady sea that did not becalm her in the troughs. |
| But the legacy of the London Games may lie in something more imponderable, a finer sense of a nation relaunched, albeit in a time of economic doldrums that could yet becalm its renewal. |
