Voorbeelden van appease

• Where the moderates coaxed, appeased and conciliated, the radicals preferred to cajole, to threaten and to force.

• Which package of policies the government chooses to appease the various coalition members and to buy off veto-players could vary.

• The very fact that he tried to appease nationalist opposition by speaking its language is itself indicative of the constraints on him.

• Usually bliss occurs when desires are temporarily appeased and the common mental diffuseness is forgotten.

• The new legislation was conceived as a political compromise to appease two strongly opposed forces: reformists and the old guard.

• Nonetheless, his intent was to control and appease the oppressive thoughts of death without inviting death itself.

• The new treaty appeased both the agrarian lobby and heavy industry as well as export-orientated light industry.

• For a long time the sea howls and the river replies, but little by little, the winds are appeased and the sea is calmed.