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Example sentences for: assuage

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"After enough of a defense to sustain his honor and assuage his backers, he will quickly sue for peace," the CIA report was quoted as saying.
In any case, my point remains: What's the point of "hate crime" legislation other than to assuage liberals?
But should that willingness ever falter, one thing is sure: No "worker adjustment" program will be able to measure the harm, much less assuage it.
Israel botched an assassination attempt on a Hamas leader . According to various reports, Israel 1) infuriated Jordan by infiltrating that country and staging the attack there; 2) infuriated Canada and other countries by forging Canadian passports for the Israeli agents; 3) bungled the attack, leading to the agents' arrest; 4) was forced to release the founder of Hamas (who was serving a life sentence) and other Hamas prisoners from Israeli jails and to supply an antidote for the lethal nerve toxin used in the attack, in order to assuage Jordan's anger; and 5) aroused such fury at Israel and sympathy for Hamas that Yasser Arafat reportedly will have to release the Hamas prisoners he has rounded up and reopen Hamas institutions.
It seeks to assuage the pain of victims by allowing them to participate in the suffering of those who hurt them.