"This wouldn't have happened if these barricades weren't here," a man, who declined to give his name, said as the violence ebbed.

The violence ebbed after China dispatched People's Liberation Army troops to the enclave.

But he also endorsed a return to the peace table if the violence ebbed as Israel's only option.

But on the day that state inspectors visited the building to see whether the violence had ebbed, one eight grader slashed another with a box cutter.

Yet the central government's decision to remove Mr. Khan has polarized the city, and if the violence has ebbed, the discontent remains.

Then she held him in her arms while his tremors slowly subsided and the violence of the attack ebbed away.

The violence ebbed in recent weeks but created a climate of fear that sent some candidates into hiding.

Many people who fled Belfast in the bad years have returned now that the violence has ebbed.

The violence of the panic had ebbed, leaving a clammy residue of despair in its wake.

At last the violence of his speech ebbed and gradually he fell silent, leaning back against the rock as though physically exhausted.