"assuaging" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
It is used when trying to lessen or soothe someone's feelings or frustrations. For example, "The doctor's words of comfort were assuaging to the grieving family."
They are probably rather more interested in the dollars that can be extracted from Maldives television than in assuaging the suffering of pampered Brits who can't survive without a dose of Eddie Mair to make the chocolate gelato taste that little bit better.
It's become increasingly easy to believe that their mission might be more about assuaging their own guilt or their efforts made to raise their profile or enhance the latest publicity campaign around a new record.
And the revenue raised might go some way to assuaging the concerns of those who oppose immigration, especially now when clever thinking is needed about ways to improve public finances.
Until it does, the credibility of what it says about its present intentions is undermined.It is also not clear how far Iran is prepared to go in assuaging worries about its current programme.
The structure, aimed at assuaging concerns about Indonesian law, is commonly deployed.
Unofficially, they have become fairly clear (at first via the Financial Times).Last May Mr Almunia spelled out four concerns and invited Google to suggest ways of assuaging them.
It also helps central bankers, by assuaging investors' fear that bankrupt governments will resort to printing money.
In the short term, it must be enough to free the ECB to intervene without limit, by assuaging fears of moral hazard.
The IDB is contemplating loans to slow the rate of increase in utility tariffs, assuaging one main cause of resentment.Brazil, after much delay, is launching a scheme under which private companies can build and operate roads, sewerage systems and even jails in exchange for a stream of revenue guaranteed by the government.
Aimed at assuaging people outraged at the release of paramilitaries, the move was contested in court a common event in a system that long lacked its own political institutions.In his book Mr Hain skates over the details of the case, which he terms an "irritating sideshow".
So instead of assuaging market fears, leveraging may yet become a mechanism that transmits panic and weakens the sovereigns, above all France.
