Clinically, almost everybody tries to talk a woman out of a C-section because of its heightened risk and longer recovery time: it is also widely felt that only anxious women would choose it, and they should have their anxieties assuaged rather than their demands met.
"I absolutely hate those ribbons," he said, contending that wearing them did nothing more than assuage people's consciences.
This poisonous combination could fuel instability rather than assuage it.Move over, BelgiumStriking the right balance between being a credible lender of last resort and an effective policy policeman is hard.
Rather than assuage its northern neighbour, however, India chose to push soldiers and frontier posts farther and farther forward, even north of the McMahon border.Yet the longer-term causes of the fighting were messier.
But codeine is constipating and habit-forming, ibuprofen can cause gastric irritation and possibly contribute to heart disease, and all of them can fuel rather than assuage headaches, if taken on a regular basis.
Rather than assuage stress, sugary foods only worsen it as metabolic havoc ensues.
Such a document would do more than assuage bruised feelings; it would help restore Weinstein's leverage with filmmakers who might otherwise be reluctant to work with him because of Dahan's very public comments.
Beware of the potential of Facebook to increase a sense of loneliness rather than assuage it.
Because for Obama, an Iran nuclear agreement is more important than anything else: more important than assuaging our Arab allies about Iran, more important than Iran's terror threats against Israel, and more important than the loss of the most important U.S. base of operations against AQIP.
Deaton suggests that far too often, western aid serves to assuage donors' guilt rather than improve recipients' plight.
