1.   Debra tried to assuage my fears.

2.   A mother cooing to her toddler and assuaging his fear of the dark.

3.   An economic stimulus package announced last week by the Japanese government briefly assuaged fears that the bank crisis would spin out of control.

4.   And still, neither delays nor limitations have assuaged fears that the information highway is a road to corruption.

5.   Annan tried to assuage American fears on Thursday.

6.   Assuaging the fear of unionists appears to be high on the British agenda.

7.   Attempting to assuage fears that continued advancements in technology will decrease personal contact, Gates argues that these improvements can actually aid relationships.

8.   A treaty could have helped assuage public fears about biotechnology, which are much greater elsewhere in the world than in the United States.

9.   But over and over again, investor fears have been assuaged by the economic data.

10.   Clinton is trying to assuage their fears and forge a charter with Yeltsin that would give Russia a voice, but not a veto, in an enlarged NATO.