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It is traditionally the role of the visiting team to quieten the home crowd in encounters such as this.

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Medvedev continued to act as the ringleader before eventually attempting to quieten the boisterous crowd.

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Here we are 12 months later, just as MPs may have thought things were quietening down before Parliament's summer break starting next week, and here we go again.

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Things quietened down but Dryden phoned police at about 04:30 claiming his partner had stabbed herself after attacking him with a hammer.

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Although it can be noisy, it quietens down significantly once the Pyramid stage performers finish for the day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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