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the appeasing
verb
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
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When Neville Chamberlain came back from Munich with his notorious "piece of paper", the appeasing deal with Hitler was lauded as a "masterstroke".
Although Ms. Stone said she is less concerned by the appeasing attitude of corporations toward China than what she calls the sensational tactics of journalists, she nonetheless sounded chastened by the episode.
An aside: a related/gigantic bullshit of the Girls-racism ordeal is the appeasing suggestion of "hipster racism" or "ironic racism" where there's just racism; ours is collectively less visceral, maybe, but no sweeter.
The show has milked the appeasing "haha see they're just like all parents!" angle.
The sad representatives of a fate-beleaguered citizenry, they intermittently call forth, for the appeasing of the gods, a troupe of adolescent girls to perform a frenzied, ritual dance in abbreviated tunics.
Now all they have to do is work amiably together.The right, which opposed the new president but is dominant in the 270-member Majlis, was offered the appeasing gift of the intelligence ministry (Dorri Najafabadi gets that important job) plus industry.
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It gave the conservatives the habit of appeasing the forces of the hysterical right and to looking to these forces — and appeasing them knowingly, expediently.
"The terrorist label is the hallmark of the era of appeasing the mullahs' regime.
Everything hinges on a single challenge: confront the karma, appease the pain, take the taint from surviving geography of Whitechapel.
But Obama's opponents likened the gesture to appeasing the Nazis (see more below).
Frans Timmermans of the Netherlands adapted Winston Churchill's famous warnings of the dangers of appeasing the Nazis.
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