Sentence examples for had assuaged from inspiring English sources

But he said the firm's recent announcement about hitting the $10 billion mark had assuaged that fear.

Only after Consuelo had assuaged another passion with the erotically supercharged Italian author, Gabriele d'Annunzio, did she marry Tonio on the recommendation of the Belgian writer, Maurice Maeterlinck.

By maintaining Saatchi & Saatchi as an autonomous agency separate from those Publicis now owns, Mr. Levy and Mr. Seelert said, they had assuaged the fears of clients concerned about potential conflicts that could have scuttled the deal.

"And when he put out the budget and defended it, that's when they said, 'He could go all the way.' " Officials with several outside groups that had been skeptical of Mr. Romney in the past said that the selection of Mr. Ryan had assuaged some of their doubts.

Some Germans believed that a move back to Berlin — the old imperial capital, Hitler's capital — would coax forth the ghosts of Prussian militarism, of centralized rule after decades of federalism that had assuaged the fears of neighbors to the east and the west and of Germans themselves.

Government data showing retail sales grew modestly in May after a strong rise in April caused selling as it had assuaged some investor concerns that the slowdown, so far centered in manufacturing and business investment, would soon spread to consumer spending.

It has assuaged her broker.

Not that this has assuaged antigovernment rancor.

Klas's art might have assuaged him.

That may have assuaged some consciences.

But Harper has assuaged those concerns through a maneuver never tried before.