0 to stop someone from feeling angry:
Outraged minority groups will not be placated by promises of future improvements.
To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.
Some effort was made, therefore, to placate the populace by addressing their material and security needs as well as by rehabilitating public institutions and facilities.
The policy reform of the care of the elderly ended up adopting various compromises in order to placate the old guard.
This not only increases private sector participation but also ensures that punishment of government does not merely represent scapegoating or efforts to placate the disaffected.
Such a move was very strategic, for not only did it placate the fishermen but asserted the authority of the kadakkodi.
Yet on the other hand, policy is also fiendishly designed to supply cheap labour while placating a nativist electorate.
They have only to humour and placate the individuals involved, fawning and toadying appropriately, and all will be well.
In the late 1960s, however, central government's efforts to placate local authorities failed to provide a flexible measure for inducing the right kind of cooperation.
