Sentence examples for efforts to mollify from inspiring English sources

Tony made repeated efforts to mollify Gordon.

An anti-Starbucks site, Starbucked.com, was initiated two years ago by a customer, Jeremy Dorosin, 42, of Pinole, Calif., who said he bought a defective espresso machine and rejected the company's efforts to mollify him.

Karzai, in his efforts to mollify his restive fellow-Pashtuns, has made conciliatory gestures to the Taliban which have alienated Tajiks and Uzbeks who helped him come to power.

And they used the word "apologies" in an effort to mollify some African leaders.

Despite WNET's hasty effort to mollify David Koch, "Park Avenue" apparently so offended him that he cancelled his plan to make a large donation.

But in their effort to mollify Republicans, the Democrats have begun to alienate some members of their own party on this and other issues.

It is the Republican-controlled Senate's effort to mollify voters who want certain services preserved — education and nursing home care, to name two — and also voters who want to park state government next to a liposuction machine.

Egyptian prosecutors, in an apparent effort to mollify the protesters, have recently charged some of Mr. Mubarak's closest allies in the former ruling party with paying the mounted thugs and orchestrating the attack.

In an effort to mollify owners of the problematic MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch systems, Ford is extending the warranty and providing owners with a way to upgrade the system, the automaker said Wednesday.

It was an effort to mollify thousands of protesters at a six-day-old protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square who have been demanding swifter justice for those complicit in wrongdoing under President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in February.

(There are also both good and bad contractors: some of the dirtiest hospitals are privately cleaned).The unions, however, remain suspicious; and, in an effort to mollify them, the government has come up with what looks like a "third way".