Sentence examples for at appeasement from inspiring English sources

So Congress, in a lame attempt at appeasement, unanimously passed legislation symbolically honoring the nation's workers.

When the Germans sent a gunboat to Morocco, Caillaux made an effort at appeasement, handing over to Germany a slice of the Congo region as compensation.

But protesters say the arrests are aimed at appeasement, not justice, and have blocked the kind of catharsis that would allow the country to move forward.

In an effort at appeasement, government ministers have been told to travel on public transportation where possible, according to reports in the British news media.

But events in Syria have played out much as they have in other nations — moving from denial to a bloody crackdown to efforts at appeasement.

Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, has visited Papua – formerly known as Irian Jaya – and released political prisoners in an attempt at appeasement.

It smacked of compromise, at best, of appeasement, at worst.

Then he turns partisan hellcat, hissing at any appeasement.

-- but advocates French policies: "socialism at home, appeasement abroad".

Yet there also comes a point at which appeasement itself is little more than a charade...The doubters must say how much more time they would give Saddam to play his delaying games".

He responded by comparing the speech to "the tragic connivance at the destruction of Czechoslovakia in exchange for the useless appeasement at Munich in 1938".