be quiescent

The security threat from the Islamic State may be quiescent now, but is hardly gone, according to senior Iraqi security officials.

Congress would need to be quiescent.

The groups accused state environmental policing to be “quiescent” relative to national enforcement of clean air and water laws.

It was completely unexpected with huge amounts of internal structure in it, regions where the star field appears to be quiescent and other regions where the stars seem to be whirling around in little vortices.

There is no wind to ruffle this aqueous surface,—why should it not be quiescent?