Примери за propitiate

• Since the imposition involved is on the speaker, it might seem odd that the requester should need to be propitiated.

• She is propitiated especially at times of pestilence, when chickenpox and measles strike.

• Officially, the payment was intended to propitiate the troops and, hence, to reduce their tendency to loot and foment disorder.

• Desire is perceived as fate-the natural force that rules the self with impossible demands, the tyrant that can be neither mastered nor propitiated.

• Senior staff will be propitiated, small concessions will be made and assurances will be given.

• We seek to propitiate very small minorities, and that does lead us to overlook the interests of vast majorities.

• Then the wheat grower was propitiated with a quota, which is protection, trying hard to disguise itself.

• Appeasement may mean nothing more than an attempt to please and propitiate your opponent.

• Whom are they going to propitiate by this clemency and forbearance?

• Those who hold the former view, when they endeavour to translate it into legislation, obviously try to propitiate their opponents either by some provision or by asserting some slogan.

• At the present moment you have a competition between three departments, and you have to propitiate this one and that one, and see the other chap does not starve.

• It propitiated a more civilized environment, in the political and social aspects.

• The sun spirit, capable of rendering service or causing harm, also must be propitiated.

• The purpose is to propitiate a deity and secure from it what the vrati, the performer wants.

• All are potentially of the malignant type, to be propitiated by an appeal to knowledge of the supernatural.