The IPS establishes investment guidelines and a framework for long-term investment thinking and can help calm nerves when things are particularly volatile.

No loud noise would really distract the calm nerves of a slan.

Selecting one of the slim cigars and lighting it was another attempt at conveying calm nerves.

He said it was important to get a plan in place soon, to help calm nerves, which he predicted would be further rattled by word of the radioactive leak.

Later that night, over calmer nerves and numerous shots of Southern Comfort, these polarized ideologues reach agreement about one thing: anger makes a vicious aphrodisiac.

A lack of communication from the sect is not helping calm nerves here.

On a long, hilly course like Augusta National, which is now saturated, the players will need calm nerves, but their physical shape will also be tested.

Not at 47, not against all those younger players with longer tee shots and calmer nerves.

I have good eyes, calm nerves, and a steady trigger finger, Major.

Everywhere signs of tobacco were in evidence, either to calm nerves or to kill the smell.