Sentence examples for through appeasement from inspiring English sources

Submissive behaviour, form of animal behaviour in which one individual attempts through appeasement displays to avoid injury by a dominant member of its own species.

The struggle, eventually brought under control through appeasement and by the use of force, was nevertheless instrumental in improving the lot of the peasantry.

Finally, and most importantly, nowhere in the world -- not in Iraq, nor Afghanistan, nor the North Caucasus -- is it possible to resolve the problem through appeasement of terrorists or through "diplomatic negotiations" with them.

The British believed they could convince Italy to abandon Germany through appeasement.

As Chamberlain's aide Dunglass witnessed at first-hand the Prime Minister's attempts to prevent a second world war through appeasement of Adolf Hitler's Germany.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was still trying to avoid war through appeasement with Nazi Germany and maintaining a cordial relationship with Adolf Hitler.

In contrast, Churchill, now the hero of World War II for being prime minister at the time of that titanic battle and during most of the war, benefitted greatly from Chamberlain's buying of time through earlier appeasement and his using that time to augment the British military, especially its air defenses.

"The reality is that you do not achieve peace through weakness and appeasement," said Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York.

"This is nothing more than appeasement through payment," complained Kirk Lippold, who was commander of the USS Cole when it was attacked in Yemen by al-Qaeda in 2000.

"To use what is being called a flimsy ploy to bring this guy in for questioning proves that the Obama administration, through all this appeasement and apologizing, answers to the Quran first and to the Constitution second".

Baldwin tends now to be remembered, if he's remembered at all, as a boring West Midlands industrialist who led the Tory party through the years of appeasement and handled, more successfully, the abdication of Edward VIII.