Sentence examples for mean soften from inspiring English sources

If people think you are being mean, soften your approach even more-but still keep your cool!

Trying to get legislation passed would inevitably mean softening the tone and would force the MRM to compromise on some issues.

Telling yourself the truth might mean softening into the fact that all of your desires need to have a say and a seat at the table.

Preparing a subject for interrogation means softening him up.

For Mr Thackeray, this meant softening his pro-Marathi oratory; but, alas, not the anti-Muslim slant he shared with his main ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

It also means softening the party's rabid opposition to further regional devolution.Mr Zapatero's victory in March was due, in part, to Catalans and Basques who were scared into voting Socialist by the PP's aggressive centralism.

This meant softening the founders' sometimes harsh feedback to employees, carrying out their wishes and smoothing over differences when they arose, all while managing the competing demands and interests of the executives reporting to him.

Part of Mr. Lieberman's shift in tone meant softening the criticism of Gov. George W. Bush that has been a standard part of his stump speech, though that criticism was hardly absent.

That means softening their stances on abortion, immigration and gay marriage.

That means softening their stances on taxes, spending and government to attract more working class, upper class, male, socially conservative and new voters.

It means softening of the articular cartilage (Fig. 1) and is not synonymous with anterior knee pain for which there are numerous causes.