placate

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• He attacked the governor for what he said was placating teachers unions at the expense of kids and families.

• One of the best parts about visiting Houston as a tourist is you’re mostly competing with Houstonians, and most of the restaurants, bars, and attractions haven’t been altered by the need to placate the tourist gaze.

• Uber made changes aimed at placating drivers in an effort to show they were independent of its control, and thus didn’t need to be made employees under the state law.

• They have to placate their quarterback without sacrificing their team-building vision, and they have to make hard decisions without upsetting their quarterback.

• No matter who’s running the front office, they remain strategic and value-based in roster construction, not all that into making splashy free agent signings or tweaking draft decisions to placate their quarterback.

• Given the somewhat macabre origins of the feast, many of the celebrations were designed to placate the gods.

• He, too, refused to work with the Kudo-kai or placate them and he, too, was shot to death just last December.

• Will putting Castro in the Cabinet be enough to placate those Latinos disillusioned with Obama?

• The police inside, clearly alarmed, did nothing while their senior officer leaned out of the window and tried to placate the mob.

• So, to placate his parents, he decides to marry Wei-Wei (May Chin), a penniless Chinese opera singer in his building.

• At those words, designed to , the fire which smouldered in Lola's breast burst into sudden flame.