'mollify' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to soothe, or pacify. Example sentence: His kind words helped mollify her temper.
This has done little to mollify observers angry at a business that seems to treat tax as an optional inconvenience, and whose first response to the negative publicity was cut paid lunchbreaks, maternity benefits and sick leave from its already low-paid workforce.
Rio is reported in Australia to have offered Chinalco a share in its planned iron ore alliance, to try and mollify the Chinese after the collapse of a $19.5bn deal between the two.
The right way to address that, and to mollify opposition in the hostile US Senate, is for such countries to accept emissions targets for future treaty periods (beyond the current target of 2012 or so).Nor is Mr Bush's reference to an "energy crisis" justified.
"My heart is filled with an intensity of hatred toward the authors of our misery that I cannot mollify," wrote one woman in a letter sent from Savannah in 1865.
Alan McKinnon, a logistics expert at Heriot-Watt University, offers Britain's switch to a service-based economy, the offshoring of manufacturing, the rise in home-working and more efficient lorries as possible reasons.Abstract arguments about macroeconomics are unlikely to mollify motorists cross about the cost of filling up their tanks.
Hard discipline may be needed to preserve the euro, and to mollify German voters who do not want to bankroll irresponsible neighbours.
He could maintain an existing agreement with America, which would mollify the administration, and hope that the anger in Okinawa is eventually forgotten by much of the electorate.
And so, in the end, Sheikh Hasina has no strong incentive, other than the country's best interests, to mollify the World Bank.
He threatened to cut diplomatic relations if Argentina nationalised the company.Argentina could presumably mollify Spain by paying a fair price for YPF which would most likely be half of the $15 billion or so the company was worth before the Argentine government began harassing it.
In part, that is because Mr Cameron's referendum promise, being primarily intended to mollify his party's rebellious Eurosceptic backbenchers, has succeeded.
Whereas Mr Haniyeh has invited Mr Abbas to Gaza, to mollify the protesters and show willing to seek reconciliation, his military wing displays scant interest in sharing power.
