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Example sentences for: placate

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Whipsawed between the need, on the one hand, to preserve good relations with the White House as it cautiously pushed the landmark civil-rights bill and, on the other, to placate the fiery young activists of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, King "clung to methods suited to his stature as a prince of the Negro church."
He acknowledged that growing up with an alcoholic parent may have made him particularly eager to please and placate.
TNR also argues that the military is overdoing gender integration in order to placate civilian politicians (namely: Pat Schroeder).
A newbie foreign correspondent describes his training at "hostile environment school," where journalists learn to dodge bullets and placate their kidnappers.
The cuts are depicted as a measure designed to leave Social Security untouched and placate seniors.