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was appeasing
verb
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
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And yet, even after he'd been vilified by Cleaver, his response was appeasing and reverential.
When a reporter asked in December about charges that he was appeasing the nation's enemies, Mr. Obama offered a strikingly blunt retort.
Lubos Dobrovsky, a former Czech defense minister who presided over the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, said he feared that Mr. Obama was appeasing Russia.
Israelis eager to consummate the deal say that the Clinton administration failed to object when the sale was arranged four years ago, when President Clinton was appeasing China as a "strategic partner".
The administration expressed anger, for example, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suggested that Mr. Bush was appeasing Arab nations by declining to take a tougher stand against Palestinian terrorist groups.
Late last year President Obama canceled former President George W. Bush's plans to station a radar facility in the Czech Republic, and 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland, raising some concerns in the region that he was appeasing Russia at the expense of regional security.
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After the importance of baseball was explained to her and a new goose given to her she was appeased.
By 1994, the US was appeased and lifted the trade embargo that had been throttling Vietnam for nearly 20 years.
He was appeased only when she divorced her new husband and returned to her hometown.
Naturally, I watched these films over and over until my thirst for fright was appeased.
Hitler's speech was not reported in the German press, but the army was appeased by the speech.
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