Whom is Niven appeasing with all her cant about privacy?
The personal affront may be appeased with a little dextrous grovelling, proud and prickly though McCain is.
The local garda has a half-hearted go at arresting him, only to be appeased with chat about football.
If they didn't have pets or domestic animals, he harassed their children for several days until he was appeased with cash or goods.
Mousavi never flowered into the charismatic leader that so many made of him and his ally Karroubi is appeased with parliamentary investigative committees.
Governor of Dauphiné from 1601, he protested when, on Henry IV's death in 1610, the queen mother, Marie de Médicis, was named regent; but he was appeased with the governorship of Normandy.
Fans will be disappointed by the news that there will be no more Dorian-Kennex cases, but some might be appeased with the official revelation of the Star Wars 7 cast yesterday.
Those looking to be appeased with more melodic tendencies should note the inclusion of technology-tinkering crowd favourite James Zabiela, the lighter Doc Daneeka and, guesting from Warp for the evening, Clark and his Phosphor live show.
However, if she is not sufficiently appeased with herrings and dumplings or pancakes at the Feast of Epiphany, she becomes the Stomach-Slasher, a demon who will rip open the stomachs of those who have wronged her, take her due, and then sew the wound with a plowshare as a needle and chains for thread.
Almost every possible interest group was appeased with some tasty morsel; hospices, people buying or selling homes worth £25,000 (where stamp duty used to cut in so harshly), apprentices, commuters across the Pennines, widows and widowers who can now inherit pensions and ISAs, kids going on planes, you name it, Mr Osborne had a amuse-bouche for them.
