1.   Audience members stood up, cheered and applauded as police officers moved in to calm the crowd.

2.   After Alloul and senior Palestinian officers arrived at the tomb and tried to calm the crowd, Palestinian ambulances plowed through the throngs to reach the tomb.

3.   Davis, joined on the front steps of the City Hall by civil rights leaders, tried to calm the crowd.

4.   Dozens of police in riot gear were called to the center Saturday to calm a crowd that became hysterical after the ticket sales process turned chaotic.

5.   Embarrassed government officials tried to calm the crowd, urging them to first bury the dead.

6.   Los Angeles Police Department officers were called in to calm the crowd.

7.   Palestinian security officials calmed the crowds by sentencing three to death in a late night court proceeding.

8.   Passenger associations said that airlines were not doing enough to calm crowds during inordinate delays, and called for better customer relations.

9.   To calm the crowd, the authorities agreed to negotiate with representatives of the prisoners and their families, demonstrators said.

10.   Twice in three days, angry mobs have grabbed suspected militiamen and started to beat them before international peacekeepers could intervene to arrest the suspects and calm the crowd.