Appeased

Famous are the souls who wander restlessly in the“, spirits who, if not adequately appeased with rites and offerings, tormented the living.

There are different versions of the tale, but a common thread is the dragon's peculiar habit of flying to Bisterne every morning to be appeased with a large offering of milk.

The worry for Sir Lindsay Hoyle is that his apologies have not appeased those who are out to get him.

They can only be appeased through troops on the ground — something that he will not do during an election year, lest he be accused of genocide by his party once more.

All tenants, to a business of this scale, are rent payers in the company’s endless pursuit of profit, to be appeased only enough to keep leases signed and apartments full.

But history has taught us that mobs don’t stop when they’re appeased, they devour.

In season 5, Angel and his associates fight to take down the Circle of the Black Thorn; according to the theory, it is this action that awakens and angers the Senior Partners, who have been appeased by Wolfram & Hart's agents for quite some time.

The court observed that insofar as the subject FIR is concerned, the complainant has already been appeased.

When we appeased Hitler, it only emboldened him.

But none of these groups was actually appeased, and the rejections of the New Brexit Deal started coming almost before May finished speaking.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew an extradition bill that sparked the protests in the first place — but it has not appeased the demonstrators.

Their views represent the consensus that terrorism can’t be defeated, it can only be defused or appeased.

They needed prisoners because they believed that the gods must be appeased with human blood and hearts to ensure the sun rose each day.

I appeased our surly waiter by ordering lobster and his choice of sides.

I’m told that some principalities own certain areas who have to be wooed and appeased.

It was a victory made possible by the realisation that Bourdillon must be appeased so he doesn’t rock the boat in the middle of the sea.

The President’s intervention to have VAT lowered to eight per cent has appeased only a few, with many, especially low income earners, feeling that it is still too high.

Apropos benevolent magicians, in contrast, obeyed and appeased Allah so that Allah exercised His will upon the spirits.

France appeased Italy on the Ethiopia question because it could not afford to risk an alliance between Italy and Germany.

Franco also appeased the Carlists by exploiting the Republicans' anti-clericalism in his propaganda, in particular concerning the " Martyrs of the war ".