The phrase "attempt at appeasement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made to placate or calm a situation, often in a political or diplomatic context.
Example: "The government's attempt at appeasement failed to satisfy the demands of the protestors."
Alternatives: "effort to placate" or "move towards reconciliation."
So Congress, in a lame attempt at appeasement, unanimously passed legislation symbolically honoring the nation's workers.
Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, has visited Papua – formerly known as Irian Jaya – and released political prisoners in an attempt at appeasement.
To get a raise: Government workers in Egypt, of fifteen per cent — an attempt at appeasement that has not swayed the protesters who want Hosni Mubarak to leave office immediately.
To get a raise: Government workers in Egypt, of fifteen per cent an attempt at appeasement that has not swayed the protesters who want Hosni Mubarak to leave office immediately.
After the audience began a round of clapping in unison, the executive director of the Lehman Center, Eva Bornstein, stepped onstage and promised that the program, scheduled to begin at 3, would start "pretty soon" — a vague and unintentionally funny attempt at appeasement.
Servicemembers United, the nation's largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans, has thrown down the gauntlet with this latest attempt at appeasement.
Neither Greece's unrepentant refusal to recover nor the dangerous rise of the extreme right, which is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to directly undermine Europe's path toward integration, disturbs Brussel's bureaucratic attempts at appeasement.
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.
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 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.
