Ryan was willing to say almost anything to calm things down.

Others say we played a good role and helped to calm things down.

But community leaders worked quickly, and successfully, to calm things down.

With the help of the police, he managed to calm things down.

It meant there was always some family member around to calm things down.

"Our responsibility is to work by all means we can in order to calm things down," he said.

There's nothing like a few murders to calm things down.

Additional police forces were sent to Kosovo to calm down things.

We were trying to calm things down a bit though.

They've called me in to try to calm things down.