mollifying

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• Last year ProPublica wrote about the world of work-at-home customer service, spotlighting a largely unseen industry that helps brand-name companies shed labor costs by outsourcing the task of mollifying unhappy customers.

• For $62,500, the county could move the statue and just maybe satisfy — or at least mollify — all sides.

• The Buccaneers’ ability to recruit and mollify Brady while winning a championship illustrated a new line teams may have to straddle.

• Other students argue that the discovery of remains cannot fully mollify public consciousness surrounding the case.

• Meanwhile, on Friday, Holder made a round of calls to Capitol Hill in an attempt to mollify concerned lawmakers.

• The appointments of Al-Sisi and Mekki are no doubt intended to mollify such concerns.

• He was actually soft as mush, straining to mollify Hispanics without roiling his own nativist base.

• So Obama was sending out Biden to further mollify the gay community without having to actually take a stand himself.

• Meanwhile the Athenian and Rhodian envoys got hold of the consul and tried by ingenious arguments to mollify his anger.

• This, of course, did not tend to mollify the spirit of the man to whom it was written, or to make him gracious towards his wife.

• This treatise was presented to Prince Maurice; but it did not mollify the indignation he had conceived against the Remonstrants.

• We shall see if this will mollify the tone of the Times which ill-treated poor Lord Grey shamefully yesterday morning.

• His explanation that he was Bellerophon, the stick Pegasus, and the cats the three heads of the Chimra failed to mollify me.