0 to stop someone from feeling angry: --
Outraged minority groups will not be placated by promises of future improvements.
Above all else, its shareholders must be placated and its share price upheld.
But beware of the day when the workers meet you in battle array, as they will unless you are prepared to placate the situation.
Royal stock also built relations beyond the polity, being used to placate and to trade with other sovereigns.
It is even possible that his need to placate the honored master completely was strong enough to induce him to fabricate the story of the theory's general propagation.
Caught between the demands of patriotism and the demands of commercialism, the city council needed to find some way to placate everyone.
By pleading guilty men hoped to placate complainants, disputing neither the facts presented nor the importance of gaining a father's consent.
Secondly, to avoid conflict, carers placated the person with dementia and gave in to them, even if it delayed the completion of a task.
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.
