Sentence examples for placate with from inspiring English sources

North Korea's state news media make it clear that the country's rocket and nuclear programs have become integral to its self-image as a small, poor but militarily powerful country, which bigger nations must placate with economic concessions, and to its ruling party's claim to political legitimacy.

Many Tamil diaspora groups and other activists will not be placated with anything less than punishment.

If not, they could be placated with food left in bowls outside locked doors.

Meanwhile, those who care about cities and their history are placated with the facadist dodge.

The state keeping the masses placated with booze and mindless entertainment?

They were placated with Bar jacket pantsuits (as in previous collections) and full ball skirts, with none of the show's lacy tops revealing the breasts.

I very much suspect that there was a pro-Antichrist lobby on the jury who had to be placated with an acting prize.

The Danes were not to be placated, with their coach Kasper Hjulmand reportedly calling the Ukrainian side "bandits" who were "without morals".

Four of the A.B.A.'s seven teams merged with the N.B.A. in 1976, but the Virginia Squires were a financial wreck and the Kentucky Colonels were placated with a $3.3 million payment.

In a bid to save their cherished dream of political union in Europe, they have decided that their voters must be placated with more "social Europe".Such a scheme is, of course, incoherent.

For a time the common people were placated with bread and circuses, as the authorities attempted to divert their attention from the gap between their standard of living and that of the aristocracy.