1.  But the vague pledges have done little to calm the waters.

2.  Eventually the message gets through to Mewtwo, who calls off the battle and calms the waters.

3.  Frazier and Ali did nothing to calm the waters.

4.  He helped calm the waters.

5.  He has been partially successful in his quest to calm the waters.

6.  In separate statements, Prime Minister Romano Prodi and President Clinton intervened to try to calm the waters.

7.  Mitchell has tried to calm the waters.

8.  Reactions ranged from puzzlement to bitterness, and pastors have been fielding questions and calming the waters in sermons.

9.  The Group of Seven leading industrialized countries and the IMF will be expected to do more to calm the waters.

10.  The wiry Harelson had calmed troubled waters before he came to the magazine.