Abe's comments on Japan's war record drew criticism from some U.S. lawmakers who hoped he would go further and did little to placate critics in South Korea and China, where he is accused of trying to whitewash history.
He is trying to placate critics on the right by saying "we're not going to turn out the lights and disappear overnight" -- in other words, answering the same "precipitous withdrawal" criticism leveled at him during the campaign over the Iraq withdrawal.
But the step was seen as a gesture to placate international criticism over the slow pace of the trial against the seven militants.
In a move reminiscent of past Qatari efforts to placate UAE and Saudi criticism, Qatar was reported to have expelled several officials of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, who were involved in the group's activities on the Israeli occupied West Bank.
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group said on Thursday that it would buy back $2 billion of its shares this year, the latest sign that the company is trying to placate shareholders after months of criticism.
[C13.] Shell Plans to Buy Back Shares The Royal Dutch/Shell said it would buy back $2 billion of its shares this year, the latest sign that the company is trying to placate shareholders after months of criticism.
The regime's attempts to use force to suppress the protests drew international criticism, and the regime failed to placate the opposition with its offers of concessions.
Although a small cadre of executives still steers strategy and runs the day-to-day operations, the financial firm now must act more like other publicly traded companies, responding to criticism over pay, adjusting strategy to placate shareholders and dealing with outspoken activists at annual meetings - all of which was unheard of a decade ago.
Heller's full-throated criticism of the bill, however, hasn't placated Democrats, who have attacked him for previously voting to undo Obamacare and roll back its Medicaid expansion.
I do not have access to the sorts of revelatory metrics that might divulge whether anyone even a young person truly prefers consuming "short-form video content" over reading a piece of reportage or criticism; it has been suggested that the pivot is to placate advertisers, not subscribers.
