Sentence examples for gestures of appeasement from inspiring English sources

The government of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea has repeatedly vowed to break the "vicious cycle" of the North's provocations — in which it has been rewarded with gestures of appeasement, including aid, by its adversaries.

But it was widely read as a gesture of appeasement to the Bushies, as you surely knew it would be.

Aznar had condemned it as a Basque-nationalist propaganda exercise, and ETA viewed it as a gesture of appeasement.

As a gesture of appeasement, the leadership did allow passage of a narrow bill providing disaster relief to cattle and sheep ranchers.

Joshua M. Landis, a professor of Middle East studies at the University of Oklahoma, said the amnesty was a gesture of appeasement by a government unlikely to be capable of changing quickly enough to satisfy its citizens.

I've been there myself – just once – and in the interval between the rehearsal and the recording told him all the answers I knew as a gesture of appeasement.

In an apparent gesture of appeasement, coup leader Gen Gilbert Diendéré reacted in a statement, saying he would free prime minister Yacouba Isaac Zida and pledged to hand power to an interim government.

Æthelnoth's elevation probably was a gesture of appeasement, as Æthelnoth's brother Æthelweard had been executed in 1017 by Cnut, who also banished a brother-in-law named Æthelweard in 1020.

Like most of his subjects, he was desperate to avoid another European war, and made overt public gestures of support for Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler.

This produced predictable cries of "appeasement".

Did his politics of appeasement pay?