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Example sentences for: placate

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But Redstone's desire to remake the company--and to placate shareholders, who have been disenchanted with Viacom for two years now--outweighed tax considerations.
Gingrich's approach will not placate die-hard defenders of the current system, who are already up in arms about the Moynihan plan.
But this won't placate the critics of alcohol advertising, who charge that the underlying purpose of the ad campaign is to recruit new drinkers, especially among the young.
He acknowledged that growing up with an alcoholic parent may have made him particularly eager to please and placate.
To placate skeptics, supporters emphasized not the glory of the new Constitution but its imperfections, promising it would be improved over time--with the Bill of Rights as a down payment.