1.   Not surprisingly, there was enormous backbench pressure on the leadership either to amend the poll tax or to cushion its impact.

2.   Parachutes, a pair of small rockets and air bags will cushion its impact.

3.   Peasants were also able to cushion the impact of indirect taxes by falling back on barter and home products when necessary.

4.   Gore, and Bolton and Oatley have shown how various kinds of social support can cushion the impact of unemployment.

5.   Arbogast said that cushioning the impact was likely to lower the risk of injury, but that more tests were needed to confirm its safety.

6.   A growing economy once cushioned the impact of such competition.

7.   After a parachute brakes its initial descent through the thin Martian atmosphere, a set of giant air bags are supposed to inflate to cushion the impact.

8.   But after nine stories, cats manage to get into a position that somehow cushions the impact of landing.

9.   But the structure of the deals cushions their impact on the cap.

10.   Coach George Seifert did not even try to cushion the impact of the Floyd and Jones injuries.