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Synonyms for appease

to grant or have what is demanded by (a need or desire)

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Back in 1938, British Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain could have gone down in history as the greatest diplomat of the 20th century--IF he had been right that Herr Hitler had limited ambitions that could be appeased. There is nothing wrong with appeasement if the aggressor can be appeased at acceptable costs.
Archbishop Eames suggested the temporary withdrawal of the North American churches from the Anglican Consultative Council, which appeased those opposed to more liberal views on sexuality; the North American churches received acknowledgment that they had not acted illegally.
Troller alone, however, discusses physical love among prisoners, which occurred when their hunger was appeased by some strategy.
But the West, and NATO in particular, according to the same columnist, failed to understand three things: neither the Serbs nor the Albanians are interested in multiculturalism; the Muslim world is not appeased; and the humanitarian disaster has not been averted.
"We've had problems with Railtrack that hopefully we have sorted out by accepting to have a mini-pitch laid instead of a full size practice ground and that has appeased Sport England, who were insistent they didn't want to lose two sporting areas (the Manor Park ground and the rugby pitch) and gain just one - the new stadium.
Once he was easily appeased by Estelle's manipulative sex, now he has had enough.
The subject of Ellen, 2001, may return the camera's stare, but her eyes harbor a look of wariness not to be appeased even by the lyrically distracting blue shadow that hovers across her shoulder as though part of the sky itself had come down to rest there.
But today we do not face an expansionist power that demands to be appeased. We ourselves are the expansionist power--troops in Saudi Arabia, bombings of Iraq, military bases all over the world, naval vessels on every sea--and that, along with Israel's expansion into the West Bank and Gaza Strip, has aroused anger.
They do this by crafting special exceptions-librarians are appeased by a special copying privilege for libraries (which requires a legislative definition of "library") and broadcasters are appeased with a special broadcaster privilege (which requires a legislative definition of "broadcaster"), and so on.
Through these biographical studies, the author suggests that those who appeased Hitler in the 1930s mostly survived Chamberlain's fall and continued to infect the body politic with their pusillanimous ways.
A striking example is his letter to Alberto Pio (#1634), whom he had heard was slandering him at Rome; he tries to disarm Pio's criticisms through apparent candor; Pio was not appeased.
Trump noted particular admiration for Richard Schaffer, chairman of the City Planning Commission, who ensured varying interests were appeased by project givebacks.
"I am not sanguine that the doubts nurtured by psychotherapy's most intense and imaginative critics will be appeased [by new placebo studies],' notes Parloff.