Sentence examples for propitiate the from inspiring English sources
She advises passing motorists to propitiate the saint with a modest gift of rupees.
To stave off disaster, the miners propitiate the mountain deities with tiny liquor bottles.
An imaginary ancient tribe sacrifices a young virgin to propitiate the god of spring.
They were forced into a golden straitjacket, limiting their policy options to propitiate the long bond.
He therefore exhorted them not to fear the enemy, but by extraordinary honour to propitiate the gods.
More than a year later, Kennedy went to see the Wall, in the course of a visit designed to propitiate the alarmed Germans.
It alarmed the particularists without propitiating the centralists.
As time elapses from the beginning of the accident, the temperature of the fuel clad continues to rise until the increased cooling produced by the injection of water, reduces the clad temperature and propitiates the rewet of the rods.
A text that summarizes the king's role states that he "is on earth for ever and ever, judging mankind and propitiating the gods, and setting order [maʿat, a central concept] in place of disorder.
By saying unequivocally that conscription is not an option, the Bush administration and the Rumsfeld Pentagon, while propitiating the ghost of Vietnam, are also profiting from the success of the all-volunteer military.
AT first glance, the computer game that lets the player create a city-state in ancient Greece (down to setting up tax and trade policies and propitiating the gods) may seem like the sort of entertainment only a middle-aged historian would love.
