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A desire to quieten the notoriously boisterous New York fans was one reason.

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Certainly Donald wants his golfers to get off to a fast start to try to quieten what are expected to be vociferous home fans.

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

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