Torre stressed that he would not suddenly make decisions to avoid criticism or to appease Steinbrenner, because that would be transparent.
Some on the left ask if she is engaging again in the Clinton strategy of political triangulation: reaching out to military leaders while also trying to appease the left with her criticism of the war in Iraq.
If that happens it is unlikely to be enough to appease the most strident critics, but what ministers will be hoping is that it stops the grumblings becoming an avalanche of criticism.
After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.
Although watered down from an earlier draft to try to appease Berlin, the proposals brought immediate criticism from Germany, with Chancellor Angela Merkel telling her partners in her governing coalition, the neo-liberal Free Democrats, that Europe would not have total sharing of debt "as long as I live".
PAGE A16 THE PRESIDENT GOES NEGATIVE President Bush's thinly veiled criticism that Barack Obama is appeasing terrorists was a shameful act for the president and a damaging one for the country.
They point to his puny climbdowns before liberal pressure groups particularly his rapid retractions of criticisms of affirmative action to appease the teachers' unions.
The Obama administration is trying to have it both ways: keeping the current opposition to ransoms intact to skirt criticism from the right, while appeasing families by allowing them to fundraise and do what they feel needs to be done to get their son, daughter, father, or mother home safely.
If he does not send the general his extra troops, senior Republicans who have so far restrained their criticism will charge that the president is appeasing his party by endangering America's fighting men overseas.
Clinton sought to appease the Pakistani government and public opinion bruised by recent criticism from the US.
