Sentence examples for bid to appease from inspiring English sources

Emily has been the rather unlucky fall guy in Channel 4's bid to appease Ofcom.

In a bid to appease conservatives, the government then extended a similar discriminatory regime to other state-run vocational schools.

By flying, one by one, to Trump's court in a bid to appease him, the Europeans risk exposing their impotence.

Insiders say that Comcast will offer to shed three million TMC customers in a bid to appease the regulators.

In a bid to appease investors, Vodafone announced princely dividends, along with cost cuts.Yet the reliance on voice and the modest movement towards data services remains risky.

Global Radio has proposed selling-off three radio stations in a bid to appease the Competition Commission's concerns over its £70m acquisition of Smooth Radio operator GMG Radio.

He was let out of prison only last year, along with a batch of other political prisoners released in a futile bid by the government to appease the nascent uprising.

The company cut its bidding price in an effort to appease dissenting shareholders.

The hacking scandal and subsequent withdrawal of a bid to control the TV business BSkyB led News Corporation to appease shareholders with a $5 billion stock buyback program.

As part of the failed bid in 2011, Murdoch agreed to spin off Sky News to appease media plurality concerns, a deal accepted by Ofcom and the government.

Some campaigners say this shows the US is continuing to appease Japan so it will not block a bid to renew subsistence hunting quotas for indigenous Inupiat communities in Alaska when that issue comes up for review next year.