In the crowd, the plainclothes policemen were calmly observing the people passing by.

Let us therefore negotiate in good faith, calmly and with a sense of urgency devoid of haste.

Kosovo's institutions reacted quickly and calmly in electing a new Government after the indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of former Prime Minister Haradinaj.

I think that with that scheduling we will be able to look at the text calmly, and we will be able to depict the present session as accurately as possible.

We must begin a stage of deliberation and begin to analyse  jointly, calmly and in a spirit of openness and cooperation the various options that already exist concerning expansion and working methods.

One of the key elements of that strategy was to carry out a comprehensive review of the implementation of standards at mid 2005. The time has come to carry out that review objectively and calmly.

These questions should be considered calmly, with the higher interests of humankind in mind, setting aside the particular interest of any country in pursuing some hypothetical power that would reduce security for each and every one of us.

Is this all a bluff? The world could perhaps calmly wait for an answer, but for the fact that the progress of Iran s nuclear program and the approaching end of President Bush s term might create an incalculable dynamic of its own.

I was really frightened at first, but I calmly explained to him that I was working on an art project and he didn't seem to mind and so I went ahead and put my camera on self timer and ran back and forth.

While many people are up in arms about Facebook s shifting privacy policies, millions of others are calmly managing their reputations online, using the tools that Facebook and other social Web sites provide. In fact, Facebook has helped them learn how to do that.

But it does mean that we can quit panicking and start thinking calmly to ensure that we focus on the right issues. Global alarm bells might cause pangs of guilt for wealthy Westerners, but they don t give us an adequate understanding of what s going on.

Japan says that it wants the discussion of whaling to be carried out calmly, on the basis of scientific evidence, without emotion. The Japanese think that humpback whale numbers have increased sufficiently for the killing of 50 to pose no danger to the species.

A Canadian military commander, asked what he would do if foreign soldiers attacked his country s Far North, calmly replied that he would dispatch an expedition to rescue them. Though Russia had hoped for a rapid increase in shipping along the Northern Sea Route, commercial traffic this year fell by 77 .

My delegation therefore believes that the Assembly is right, as it discusses the report of the Secretary General, to refer analytically to the summit outcome, since the rushed deadlines and high pressure atmosphere involved in obtaining a final document did not make it possible to calmly assess the results of the High level Meeting.

Shi Haiyong also said that confronted with the current buoyant peak production and sales period, producers should calmly face and objectively analyze the situation, and take into consideration that the demand for flowering trees and shrubs is long term and will continue to increase. At the same time, they should also be aware that market competition will intensify.

Before an exclusive interview with a Yangcheng Evening News reporter, Yu Kewei had a sip of alcohol. She felt this would help her loosen her tongue a little. Super Girl , Time Boils the Rain , Rock Records, EE Media ...... are the keywords the market has attached to her. She has calmly accepted these terms while trying her best to safeguard her internal purity.

Second, there are national defense efforts, encouraged by the US, increasingly aimed at greater self reliance in the event that China s rise becomes a military threat. This, too, has been accepted reasonably calmly, if not always quietly, by China, and has not undermined the continuing growth in bilateral economic relationships that every country in the region is developing with China.

For too long, intemperate historical debates often driven by biased newspaper accounts have poisoned bilateral relations. Now, as another war of words heats up, Japanese and South Korean leaders need to step back, recognize where the real interests of their people lie, both today and in the future, and calmly begin to take the measures required to ensure durable reconciliation.

Above all, effective leadership requires contextual intelligence and an intuitive diagnostic ability that helps a leader understand change, set objectives, and align strategies and tactics accordingly. As Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, once told me, a leader must be a quick learner, test reality, be prepared to change his mind as conditions change, and act calmly in a crisis.

In view of the serious risks that Europe has assumed, in full awareness of the consequences, it is of the utmost importance that a European Grand Strategy for the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East be developed, so that Europe can calmly and clearly define its interests. In any serious variation of this Grand Strategy, Turkey will need to play a central role politically, militarily, economically, and culturally.

Cyprus also holds a more general lesson Given the extreme reaction of financial markets to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, it had become axiomatic among European policymakers that no bank should be allowed to become insolvent. But financial markets reacted calmly to the news that, for the first time, even depositors in a bank in the European Union will lose part of their money (and this was noted with glee in Berlin and elsewhere in northern Europe).