Sentence examples for soothe discontent from inspiring English sources

Can he soothe discontent with an economy that appears to have bottomed out but remains moribund?

Despite the wider economy's problems, the government has attempted for two years to cool an overheated property market to soothe discontent among middle-class Chinese, who are increasingly priced out of the urban housing market.

To soothe their discontent, the Knicks searched until they discovered a Happy Meal.

In February 1946, to soothe the discontent, the military government created the Representative Democratic Council as an advisory body to the military government.

MOSCOW — The Kremlin's chief political strategist sought to soothe the discontent of street protesters on Friday, a day before a rally expected to draw a large crowd, saying in an interview that the government had already acquiesced to many of the protesters' demands.

Following a week of relative calm, violent clashes returned to the streets of Istanbul this Saturday as the Turkish government continued with their notion that heavy-handed police crackdowns can soothe civil discontent.

Obama, always a centrist, held to his belief that he could unite the country and soothe its discontents.

Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.

Having spent the best part of last decade taking Reuters from near financial disaster to an £8.7bn mega-merger with rival Thomson, incoming Trinity Mirror chairman David Grigson has the mettle to lead a restructure of the ailing newspaper group, as well as soothe staff and shareholder discontent.

Bernard Thibault, leader of the country's most powerful union, is under pressure to flex his muscles ahead of a leadership vote at his union congress in December.Much depends on Mr Sarkozy's ability to keep simmering discontent under control by soothing the unions and those worried about losing their jobs.

Taken alone, it would be a hell of a swansong ("Am I nowhere now?") but play it beside the feverish discontent of Killing a Little Time and it loses its soothing finality.