Sentence examples for by appeasement from inspiring English sources

But, Mr Blair, I want something more than just political rhetoric; I want real social reform, undiluted by appeasement to business interests.

The fightback is often dated to 1971 when Lewis Powell, a corporate lawyer, wrote a memo accusing American capitalism of responding to attacks by "appeasement, ineptitude and ignoring the problem".

It is far better to let the Afghan people eliminate the Taliban, because it is in their best interest to do so, than for us to try to do it by brute force or by appeasement.

"That safety and security will be ensured ultimately not by appeasement, not by the hope of trade at any cost, but by dealing with Communist China without selling out the very moral and spiritual principles that made America great in the first place".

The rewards for these and similar initiatives are potentially great, but will not be achieved either by appeasement or threat, or with the immediate self-interest of either of the parties uppermost in mind.

In the prevailing narrative, the British response to fascism was marked first by appeasement, a policy simultaneously born from fear and the naïve belief that there could be a worthwhile peace, and then by a stern-faced determination to sort out this Hitler nonsense for good.

The United Nations, the Nato alliance, the Dutch state, the French Republic, and the world's mightiest spy services were all tainted by their appeasement of Mladic and by the long failure or reluctance to apprehend the man said to be the most infamous mass murderer in Europe.

They were never going to be pacified by charm, or appeasement, by genuflection, or collaboration, they would take it as weakness, and use the weakness to wear him down before tearing him down.

Threat display of one bird may be met by threat, by anxiety or appeasement postures, or by retreat.

All this confrontation and frustration is reflected in the melancholy undertones of their religious beliefs, particularly those of the Sumerians, for whom success and prosperity came to be identified with the principle of fertility and thus could only be attained by the appeasement of capricious deities.

From the voice hearer's point of view, non-compliance risks harmful action from the voice (e.g. death to self or family), placing the individual in a dilemma often resolved by harmful appeasement or compliance.