Sentence examples for may placate from inspiring English sources

Concessions, such as more consultative councils, may placate the kingdom's merchants.

A policy which may placate those who regard him as Harry Redknapp's surrogate son duly blew up in his face.

This may placate the White House to some extent by showing extensive communication between Iraq and Qaeda leaders.

Enormous amounts of time and money are now being put into compliance programmes that may placate judges, prosecutors, regulators and monitors but undermine innovation and customer services.

They worry that AIG's woes will drag down ILFC, whose credit rating was cut along with its parent's following the latest loss.The defenestration of Mr Sullivan may placate dissident shareholders, but AIG is hardly out of the woods.

Swinging to the left a bit may placate them, which could bolster this chess-loving president's position as the ruling party searches for his successor, who is due to be anointed in 2007.

This may or may not placate the militants' leader, Mullah Fazalullah.

Increasingly people have inferred more than was intended to be conveyed," says Deven Sharma, S&P's president.Such stabs at self-healing may not placate everyone.

Still, this move may not placate Fullerton residents, some of whom claim that the episode is endemic to the city's Police Department, which is protected by several City Council members who used to serve on the force.

Some casinos are also building venues with less floor space for blackjack and more for shops, theatres and restaurants.This may help placate the government in Beijing, which would rather see its citizens shop for jewellery than for a different currency.

Yet even all this may not placate the nationalists whose real fear is of becoming an ethnic minority and so losing their influence at the polls.Conspiracy unlimitedWhere the pipelines are concerned, the nationalists appear to be gripped by a common delusion that America secretly wants Baluchistan to secede from Pakistan, in order to secure the superpower a new source of oil.