They also pray to nature deities and propitiate them.
Hence, there were numerous specific prohibitions on acts believed to offend them and observances designed to propitiate them.
But under the logic of the bailout, the markets were in charge, and the overarching aim of the government was to propitiate them to avoid disaster.
To these beings Xenocrates attributed much of what popular religion attributed to gods, and ritual mysteries were instituted to propitiate them, especially the evil ones.
During the primary, Romney tried to propitiate them by calling himself "severely conservative" and taking a hard right stance against illegal immigrants, calling for "self-deportation".
The only Americans who could consider this devastated era "promising" are the plutocrats who rule our age, and Koons himself, smiling too broadly to see the culture he propitiates collapse around him.
He was someone to propitiate like a god, wrote a person who knew him, but he was not one to evoke affection.
In some societies the burial of the dead has been accompanied by human sacrifice, with the intention either to propitiate the spirit of the deceased or to provide him with companions or servants in the next world.
In his resignation letter to Cameron, McMillan-Scott told him: "You say that you are against extremism at home, yet you propitiate it abroad".
But nothing could propitiate his masters: during his sole meeting with Hussein, who, after silently staring at him in the eyes for two minutes, a juvenile trick he used to unnerve his interlocutors, inquired about actual results, Kamel interjected, "Dr. Mahdi is a very humble man who hates to boast.
