Sentence examples for soothe critics from inspiring English sources

The results yesterday were unlikely to soothe critics who see the test as too easy; they said the Regents exam is hardly a high graduation standard, and that with a truly rigorous test, more students would fail.

Ghomeshi's final escape did little to soothe critics who see his trial as an example of all that is wrong with how Canada deals with cases of sexual assault.

The removal of a high-ranking U.S. Customs and Border Protection official this week was designed to soothe critics who say the agency has been too soft on Border Patrol agents and other employees accused of misconduct, abuse and corruption.

But that hasn't soothed critics.

In fact, until he soothed critics by guiding a young German team to a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup on its home soil, Klinsmann had been considered too American by some in German soccer.

In a compromise aimed at soothing critics who called that a step back into a discredited past, Mr. Putin also made Czarist Russia's red-white-and-blue banner and its two-headed eagle the official flag and symbol.

Justine Greening, the transport secretary, will soothe outlying critics in Parliament by altering the route.

Stanley Plotkin, a renowned vaccine developer, said that it was fruitless to try to soothe vaccination critics.

But if he had spelled out his new ideas in early 2006, says Mr Chew, "there would have been a lot of scepticism".For a while Mr Sarin's survival was in doubt, but he soothed his critics by selling Vodafone's ailing Japanese unit and toughed it out until the strong growth of Vodafone's new divisions in eastern Europe and Turkey had demonstrated his new strategy's potential.

The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, will attempt to soothe the anger of critics, particularly in the House of Lords where the health and social care bill will return next month, by proposing 200 amendments to the legislation later this week.

He took the Jew out of Jesus, which soothed and pleased the critics.