Sentence examples for more placating from inspiring English sources

"Assuming everything goes very quickly, and the Czechs give the green light, I think there will still not be a formal announcement made, because the Russians need some more placating".

Jamal Rifi recently demonstrated this binary thinking in a tweet responding to army chief Peter Leahy's call for a 100 year war on (radical) Islam: The solution is always the concession of rights and more placating silence.

Now I can go back to my ivory tower with a more placated conscience.Stanley Pinto BangaloreSIR – I have just one small gripe with your report on innovation in emerging markets.

That sermon was more about placating my need to be right than about preaching the Gospel.

But it was just as much (if not more) about placating white Canadians than letting immigrants live a little less in fear of eating the food and wearing the clothes we were going to eat and wear anyway.

Government policy has often appeared to be more about placating the hang-'em-and-flog-'em brigade the types who share hysterical reports about "what the teens are doing these days" on Facebook than making any constructive efforts to reduce the potential harm drugs can cause.

THE fuss about Switzerland's conduct in the second world war, and its recent clumsy handling of the question of Jewish bank deposits, is posing an unexpected dilemma: the more Switzerland placates its (mostly foreign) critics, the more it inflames its own right-wingers.

As hardcore porn, school bullying, gang rape, and ISIS-beheading videos become more and more ubiquitous online, placating trigger warnings flash everywhere, as if by such means we were exercising some moral control in an increasingly insane world.

She added that these groups are often used "more to placate women than to promote them".

In a move that seemed designed more to placate Iraq's Shiite majority than to influence the broader management of the war, Iraqi leaders have drawn up a set of changes to a United Nations agreement that provides some of the legal basis for American troops here.

"So [the report] simply confirms what we have always believed - that this was a hurried investigation, put together quickly, more to placate public opinion and media attention than to realistically and honestly find out what happened to these young people".