The talks aren't all about a weakling US trying to placate the powerful landlord from Beijing.
It will never be as influential as China, a country America knows it must placate as well as chide.
Dalian's party chief, Tang Jun, tried to placate the crowd by standing atop a police van, promising through a megaphone that the plant would be relocated.
It is a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the State spin their lies and try to recreate reality (I assume to placate their bosses and tell them what they want to hear).
“ I cannot placate the Left,” he grumbles.
The concessions did little to placate the students.
The first excerpt is from Numbers 14, and it shows Moses' ability to placate the wrath of God.
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.
Malcolm Turnbull, leader of the main opposition Liberal party, supports such a scheme. But he wants it delayed to buy him time to placate the powerful global-warming sceptics in his own party.
He smiled, and made a gesture intended to placate me.
The various accounting bodies are trying to placate the politicians while avoiding watering down standards too much.
Although Yi might not be the big piece to placate Kobe Bryant, he'd be an intriguing acquisition. His style of play would seem to mesh well on paper with Bynum.
His intent is clearly not to placate his critics.
The more you creep and crawl trying to placate him, the more pleasure he gets in taking it out on you.
By the time of Song. the tribe under Li Yuanhao had become quite strong, often intruding into Song territory for plunder and pillage. To placate them, a Song emperor gave his own surname Zhao to the tribe along with a large amount of gold and silver.
) and to placate their thirst for souls will attack humans to eat the souls.
As Israeli prime ministers have sought to placate right-wingers.
You might add too much weight to the bench press or strain yourself during a yoga pose, just to placate your inner critic.
To placate those who wanted to see a stricter version, some senators were pushing a provision that would give regulators less say in how to enforce the rule.
The cafeteria is now being operated by the school, said a teacher there who spoke to the Global Times on condition of anonymity, amid efforts to placate the students.
Accommodation failed to placate the critics and may have demoralized supporters of a strong defense.
Bankers are desperately trying to placate their critics.
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