Sentence examples for appease state from inspiring English sources

Last May, after failing to appease state regulators, Mr. Frankel fled the country, leaving documents ablaze in his house.

But Laperruque argues the committee markup of the legislation weakened the bill in a way objected to by tech and security experts in order to appease state officials.

Utah's governor and legislature hope to put pressure on federal land managers to appease state interests, on the President to forego designation of new national monuments, and on the Congress to voluntarily cede to the states or sell some federal lands.

Our acceptance of state-administered amnesia can be seen as a tacit understanding among men of letters who appease the state's power.

Hoping to appease the state, Suffolk moved construction funds from next year's budget to this year's.

Over the last year, she has been meeting with borrower advocates to help develop a plan to appease the state attorneys general.

This has culminated in a series of efforts, by what amounts to an apartheid-style school board, to appease the state.

The deal, which was reworked to appease some state lawmakers and other critics, was the main subject of a special meeting of the authority's trustees that was arranged on Friday.

It also needs to sell off 600 branches by November 2013 to appease EU state aid rules but Daniels said no disposal would take place until the integration of HBOS had been completed, scheduled for mid 2011.

To appease the state's powerful agricultural interests, extensive flood-control measures are proposed to ensure that the redirected water does not spill over on to farmland.The plan (to be paid for with both state and federal money) will not be voted on by Congress until July.

Will the Bush administration settle for cosmetic change to appease Arab states?