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Islamabad -- Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda tries to placate journalists as they walk out of presser.
The policy of trying to placate Hamas with enhanced humanitarian aid is sadly no less farcical than trying to convert a man-eating tiger into a cuddly bunny-rabbit by offering it a diet of premium carrots
Imran Hamid Sheikh Saturday visited Shaheen Muslim Town and helped teams of heath department to placate families who refused to vaccinate their children in ongoing anti-measles campaign.
Trying to placate and appease tax evaders and allowing them to flaunt their wealth show how the PTI has buckled under pressure.
When Iqbal went to his in-laws' house to placate his wife, they made him digest the poisoned food, causing his death, the family members claimed.Subsequently, the relatives blocked the Sialkot Road in protest and demanded the arrest of the suspects.
He said in response to a question about some voices which accuses the people of Fallujah of treason and demanding punishment of them without discrimination and destroy the city, "I refuse infringement on the people of that city from the vulnerable and frightened and did not placate terrorists." He considered that "anyone who participated or helped or sympathy with terrorists are not with us, but those who are vulnerable and fearful and did not placate or assisted terrorists are our brothers, and we do not accept their infringement." He refused describing those resist terrorism from inside this stricken city with bad descriptions.
Police have been striving to lay the matter to a rest by having the family placate the prayer leader and his followers by assuring them that they have not blasphemed.
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that critics consider the move to be part of Obama's decision to placate Iran, by tacitly supporting Hezbollahthe Iranian-backed Shia Islamist groupin the context of the nuclear arms deal that is being brokered with the Islamic Republic.
This commonality is in the clubhouse exclusively adhering to placate smaller hours of day and night.
parcel would been enough placate even most demanding of 1970s Not that we mind of course, all we parents are really concerned with, if we allow ourselves to admit it, is just how worn out our children are at the end of it all - and, more importantly, how soon after their heads hit the pillow will they be throwing Zzzzzs around the bedroom with as much alacrity as they are presently throwing themselves headlong into their bulbous assault course.
The Congress needs to deploy the trick that schoolmasters have been using to placate students who throw tantrums
Global Banking News-November 7, 2011--Citigroup said to be making efforts to placate Japanese regulators(C)2011 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk
Whether it is utility companies, transport, or social care, privatisation means a deterioration of service and exorbitant prices to placate the greed of shareholders.
Summary: Syria says teachers wearing niqab can return to jobs; Syria orders closure of casino; Moves seen to placate Sunni majority population