11.   In France, postwar-high unemployment, pessimism, industrial unrest and recent terrorist bomb attacks in Paris have dampened spirits.

12.   It acknowledges some of the hypocrisy of the times but refuses to let that dampen its spirit.

13.   Nothing so far has dampened the spirits of Tech athletic director Gerald Myers.

14.   Rather than dampen spirits, the rain set the stage for a conservative mosh pit as hundreds sung The Palm Beach Pokey.

15.   Shortly after takeoff, the holiday spirit is dampened when a passenger suffers what seems to be a heart attack.

16.   Some years, casualities or even deaths in the previous winter have dampened spirits.

17.   Spirits are dampened.

18.   That did not dampen the spirits of Walter Joyce, vice president for strategic planning at Inculab, a Manhattan-based incubator for Internet ideas.

19.   The bogeys failed to dampen his spirits.

20.   The ball hit near the pin and skidded over the green, effectively ending his bid, but failing to dampen his spirits.