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  • s  intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
    an astonishingly placatory speech

  • One of the defenders makes a placatory gesture, offering the intruders a Cuisinart.
  • The scuffle escalated, and after the show, formerly placatory host ALEXANDER LYUBIMOV was said to have been reduced to punching Zhirinovsky in the face.
  • Still, Brown, Sarkozy and Barroso had all deemed it politic to separately disturb Merkel's Sunday rest with placatory phone calls ahead of their Lancaster House confab.
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  • John Howard in Sydney Morning Herald
    The new immigration laws are (not) in some way an appeasement of Indonesia,Mr Howard told ABC Radio. "I find this suggestion that we're in some way being over placatory towards the Indonesians as absolutely false. It is in Australia's...

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