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Example sentences for: placate

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The humbling of Clinton would also serve a political function: It would placate conservatives, especially if service were combined with a haymaker congressional censure.
The spins: 1) Yeltsin is pretending to entertain this option to placate Russian hard-liners.
A newbie foreign correspondent describes his training at "hostile environment school," where journalists learn to dodge bullets and placate their kidnappers.
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.
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.