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Cracking down on women's rights has often been an easy way for governments, secular or not, to placate their more extreme allies or enemies.

But on the streets of Athens, there is a sense that this latest effort to placate Greece's lenders may be a last straw for the public.

In fact Pakistan's new president, Asif Zardari, has been going out of his way-and courting controversy at home-to placate India.

Accommodation failed to placate the critics and may have demoralized supporters of a strong defense.

The various accounting bodies are trying to placate the politicians while avoiding watering down standards too much.

But all that failed to placate the crowds, who finally got what they wanted later in the day: a Tunisia sans Ben Ali.

It also foists a stark choice on the Kremlin: to stifle dissent, or to placate protesters to provide some kind of pressure outlet.

Being able to placate the surviving population and keep them subservient to a federal system would then involve plenty of handy oil and gas.

But even though the military is widely popular with the public, there was no sign that the government shakeup would placate protesters.

But the White House sees any conspicuous efforts to placate Jackson as dangerous to its efforts to win back disaffected white moderates.

The talks aren't all about a weakling US trying to placate the powerful landlord from Beijing.

March 26 - In an attempt to placate protesters, Assad frees 260 prisoners, and 16 more the next day.

The building frenzy aims to placate citizens angry that property speculation has priced them out of the non-subsidized housing market.

F. To a greater or lesser extent a mother feels that her own mother demands a baby, so that her baby is produced to placate her mother.

Bankers are desperately trying to placate their critics.

In the past, talks with Miss Suu Kyi have been used as a sop to placate international opinion.

A breakthrough in either area could be enough to placate shareholders and prevent Microsoft returning at a later date .

Donors need to be patient so charities will not feel pressured to plunge in and offer ineffective aid, simply to placate impatient donors.

To placate Italy's irate local mayors and governors, Mr Berlusconi lightened the burden of savings they were supposed to have made.

The White House must placate investors nervous about deficit spending with the political imperative of getting the jobless rate down.

Now Mr Tsang will have to come up with an electoral plan for the coming years that will placate public impatience but not alarm China.

Do not imagine you can placate them by showering "development" and "reconstruction" on them in the postwar era.

the Arabs hoped it would be enough to placate them.

The move wasn't enough to placate protesters, however, who have consistently demanded that he step down immediately.

This should go some way to placate hawkish ECB members who disagree with the Bank's bond-buying programme.

That was not enough to placate Britain's politicians, though, some of whom accused the Murdochs of willful ignorance.

Officials asked fans to remove the offending garments, to placate Budweiser, a rival beer brand that was the tournament's official sponsor.

Hollows , in their attempt to bury their lost of life (heart? ) and to placate their thirst for souls will attack humans to eat the souls.

He also tried to placate some of the non-Brics by offering a new term: the "N-11" , or Next Eleven nations on the list to emerge as powers.

Because, Mrs Merkel told her colleagues, she had to placate the judges in Karlsruhe.

A suspension may not placate the vociferous opposition parties, which have said they want a full rollback of the retail decision.

Londoners deserve their sleep, but it should be possible to placate them by reducing early morning flights.

In any case, China may end up using more of its reserve funds to address domestic problems or placate domestic interest groups.

Beijing did raise prices twice in two months this summer to placate firms sliding into the red.

Todd: Of course, one can placate the people with bread and money, but only for a while.

Rather than provoking China by arming Taiwan and patrolling the seas, it would be better to placate it, and throw it the morsel of Taiwan.

They may buy unwanted housing off developers, which would placate their overseers in Beijing but add nothing to China's GDP.

He knew he needed to placate this important group of stockholders, who along with directors owned about 30% of the firm.

Seeking to placate the domestic critics, China's leaders are hardening their stance toward the Americans.

Silvio Berlusconi's government cobbled together an emergency austerity package for Italy late on Friday to placate the bond markets.

Jack felicitates his brainstorm to feast them. He only thought to placate them through the invitation without thinking it is fruitful.

But India, which in the past has mostly sought to placate its more powerful neighbour, is now stiffening its spine.

You might add too much weight to the bench press or strain yourself during a yoga pose, just to placate your inner critic.

Yet Maoist leaders also hint that their virulent rhetoric is to placate their frustrated rank-and-file.

placate These verbs all refer to allaying another 's anger , belligerence , discontent, or agitation .

Many of the government's proposals are sensible, but they do not go far enough to placate the students.

The oil companies hope the plan will placate the intense official and public criticism of the oil industry.

There was little news Monday to placate investors worried about the health of corporate America.

Rising prosperity alone will not placate people indefinitely.

It is unlikely that Hunt's argument will placate Mourinho, who has asked for the Football Association to review the incident.

Some suspect that the wily Swiss set a trap, hoping to placate America, which has been cracking down hard on Swiss tax shelters.

To placate old and new site members, this 2. 0 version of the site needs to make sure it's dependably usable at all times.

Whether it can deliver results fast enough to placate US politicians' impatience with China is another matter.

But he may yet be able to impress them, if he can placate the one-time supporters who suspect that he has lost his audacious touch.

To placate them, Mr Turnbull committed his coalition to voting against the bill when it came before the upper house, on August 13th.

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt . . . we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends.

China's trade surplus narrowed in September but the moderation is unlikely to placate external critics.

He hoped really to placate Butler in part by generous attitude throughout this procedure.

Watch for China to increase its capital flows to the emerging markets to placate critics.

In your fear you will try to escape it, to fight it, to protect yourselves from it, to placate it.

The minister's cronies have an election coming up, and the best way to placate voters is to promise them land.

But he wants it delayed to buy him time to placate the powerful global-warming sceptics in his own party.

To placate Kostya, Emil posed a rhetorical question: If Bomka has forgotten about us, why are we still getting monthly checks?

This did little to placate striking farmers since FOB prices are well below the $600-per tonne threshold.

Lord Patten has his work cut out to placate both camps.

Lenders may be harder to placate than diplomats.

If there are any signs of changes in the right direction occurring, I think that will be enough to placate the American people.

Placate the labour unions on trade and get them to support Mr Obama on healthcare.

They stress the need to placate protesters rather than respond with force.

This will explain why he disappeared And will placate the po-po .

If the US dollar weakens further, Fed policy makers will be forced to slow down monetary pumping in order to placate foreign investors.

He will be constrained neither by pre-election promises (he has made few) nor, probably, by the need to placate smaller parties.

To placate the Free Democratic Party taxes will be cut.

This all means you can have a more long-term strategy, free from the need to placate others.

The hope is that in the meantime, rosy economic figures will placate the masses and stop unrest .

Don't placate me like I'm your mother, boy.

His mission: To placate the spirit believed to dwell in the mountain.

'I promise you, baby. We will visit the United States next year. Are you content? ' Jack knows he can't elude if he doesn't placate her now.

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Pfizer has gone out of its way to placate prosecutors:

On Europe, the prime minister must placate five types of Conservative

Speaking out thousands of word can placate each other

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