Placating

And he wasn’t merely placating a needy audience of Jews and Israelis.

Even Israel’s response was relatively placating.

If they seem to be placating you or seem uninspired to act or unnecessarily defensive, I would request a meeting with administration, where I would lay all of this out on the table.

But you don’t get to be the commissioner of a multibillion-dollar industry—or charged with placating 30 fabulously wealthy, notoriously demanding owners—without a level of fundamental trust in one’s economic stewardship.

Coming as it does, ahead of the general elections, the changes appear to be aimed at placating and protecting local retailers, large and small.

Placating her became our survival strategy.

Thailand fended off being colonized by placating the neighboring colonial powers, Britain and France, with territorial and economic concessions.

The Dayton Accords were meant to end a war by placating warring ethno-nationalist leaders, but Annex 4 has been used to govern Bosnia for more than two decades.

These elected officials in particular are not only obsequiously placating a man nursing a god complex, they are displaying a staggering lack of national fealty.

With this latest Eagles brouhaha, the NFL is learning firsthand that any hopes of placating Trump are unlikely to succeed.

At the time of Arthur's and Lewis's initial adventure, the Ottomans were still trying to lessen the threat of intervention by placating their neighbours.

He possesses little sense of "preaching to the converted" (in a very literal sense), and aims his work more at influencing Protestants than placating his Ultramontane opposition.

Some said that Chen's position on this issue was intended and to some degree succeeded in placating his pro-independence supporters without crossing any red lines that could trigger war with the PRC.