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Example sentences for: placate

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This effusively named tax cut would, even after some cosmetic improvements to placate fiscal conservatives, likely absorb more than the total 10-year surplus.
The humbling of Clinton would also serve a political function: It would placate conservatives, especially if service were combined with a haymaker congressional censure.
He acknowledged that growing up with an alcoholic parent may have made him particularly eager to please and placate.
La Repubblica of Rome ran a front-page comment Wednesday comparing the reappointment of Greenspan to the Italian peasant tradition of carrying in procession a statue of the Holy Protector to placate the weather.
TNR also argues that the military is overdoing gender integration in order to placate civilian politicians (namely: Pat Schroeder).