Sentence examples for attempt to placate from inspiring English sources

The most recent delay is another attempt to placate the law's opponents.

This is the company's latest attempt to placate its bankers and secure its future.

Essentially, mergers and acquisitions have been the tools of choice to attempt to placate restless investors.

In an attempt to placate her, I ask if she feels singular.

In an desperate attempt to placate the book's critics, Gollancz wrote an introduction that dissed the second half.

The move will be seen as an attempt to placate the trade unions, who will also lose their 33 per cent slice of the electoral college.

He told me it was part of his "Sunni outreach" effort — an attempt to placate leaders from the Iraqi community most hostile to the U.S. occupation.

Giving Ms. Livni a role in the peace process could also be an attempt to placate Washington ahead of President Obama's planned visit to Jerusalem next month.

This dynamic was acted out — yet again — in President Obama's latest and perhaps most humiliating attempt to placate his Republican captors in Washington.

In an attempt to placate the rank and file, Mr. Ibrahim issued a statement to police personnel sympathizing with the pressure the protests put on them.

And trying to make nice with them is not only a waste of time, it looks to voters what it is - a pathetic attempt to placate the bully.