1.   His distraught parents were being comforted by relatives.

2.   But Mavis Dummitt, a registered nurse who tended to children with AIDS and counseled and comforted their parents, wondered what her patients would do without her.

3.   But that Victorian ethos comforted the parents of the young women from far-flung places who moved into the residences.

4.   He comforted Israeli parents whose girls were killed by a Jordanian soldier, but did he ever visit Palestinians who lost children in the intifada?

5.   There is a plethora of Las Vegas-style entertainment, but not much to comfort a parent.

6.   To comfort his parents, he did not tell them he was in Chechnya.

7.   It takes a certain touch to comfort anxious parents who bring their offspring to the shrine cherished by scholars, hoping to bring them success with their examinations.

8.   Psychologists and clergy, including Bishop Francisco Perez of Soria, tried to comfort the parents as they identified the bodies.

9.   School staff tried to comfort parents with red eyes and anguished faces.