Sentence examples for time to placate from inspiring English sources

But he wants it delayed to buy him time to placate the powerful global-warming sceptics in his own party.

There, Congress's state-level chiefs will need time to placate their own angry members—if they can.

This season, after the networks gave away free time to placate advertisers, they covered their losses by selling remaining ad slots during football games for even higher prices.

Soames, Sir Winston Churchill's grandson, barely had his knees under the desk before asking the City for £170m to buy the group some time to placate its lenders.

At the same time, to placate German allies, the government approved sending 300 more soldiers to Afghanistan to operate NATO surveillance planes, to ease the strain on countries that are involved in Libya and may need to redeploy forces.

In Washington, officials worked to maintain a diplomatic balancing act: trying not to damage relations with Canada while at the same time trying to placate the more than 30 countries now banning American beef.

He has spent too much time trying to placate Republicans.

What is most troublesome to me about this worthy book is the vast prolegomena that seems, alas, de rigueur these days, the critical dross that Fry must apparently spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to placate, dodge, and negotiate.

Last season Dalglish threw him on a couple of times mainly to placate the angry home crowd one suspects.

Since the beginning of the C.I.A.'s drone war in Pakistan in 2004, American officials have at times tried to placate Pakistani officials by killing militants who pose a greater threat to Pakistan than they do the United States — including a June 2004 drone strike against Nek Muhammad and an August 2009 attack that killed Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.

And the long-time maverick needs to placate conservative interest groups.