Sentence examples for try to placate from inspiring English sources

The lower orders try to placate him.

He would also try to placate his opponents.

Others try to placate him, Israelites and Philistines alike.

He has preferred to try to placate all-comers in the name of consensus.

Whenever these things happen, the Democrats race off to try to placate the aggrieved Republican.

FEW company officials try to placate both Wall Street and Washington with the same maneuver.

One is of trying to placate China.

But he also tried to placate the public.

The government began the day trying to placate the protesters.

He tried to placate both the Americans and the insurgents.

Trying to placate everyone, he only exacerbated everything.