Yesterday, though, the focus seemed to have narrowed to the bill itself and gaining an exemption for cigar bars and individually owned businesses with no employees, which would would assuage council members.
But Kevin P. Mitchell, the chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, which is based in Radnor, Pa., and represents business travelers and corporate travel departments, doubted that the gesture would assuage many passengers.
He hoped that the press conference would assuage his worries.
Wall Street analysts said the court decision would assuage investors' concerns about other lawsuits.
Even with the flawed review ending, Mr. Curry voiced hope that regulators' actions would assuage concerns about the foreclosure process.
Both Germany and its neighbours thought that a single European currency would assuage fears of German strength.
The bishop responded that he would reimburse the diocese, saying he hoped that it would assuage his conscience.
The mayor himself inadvertently offered a plan that would assuage such fears: ending the city's five-cent redemption program.
That is the only prospect that would assuage the public's anxiety over this present danger in our midst.
