The youth laid a placating, trembling hand on Khardan's arm.

A residual sense of guilt, a placating of fate?

And spending one's life placating a bewildering variety of kami seemed farcical to him.

This emphasis on containing horsepower and placating insurance companies to make RX-7's more affordable seems ironic in retrospect.

It's not effective (beyond placating publishers who insist on DRM), but it also doesn't get in the way.

In an effort to neutralize this threat, the Sultan agreed to hold elections, with the hope of placating and co-opting the nationalists.

The sale would be used to pay shareholders a special dividend, or to buy back some of its shares in hopes of placating unhappy stockholders.

There could be the clearing of the obstructiveness of inanimate objects, and the placating of the elements.

No placating of Joseph L. Bruno, the prideful Republican Senate leader.

South Korea has an obvious interest in placating the North to discourage disruption of the Seoul Olympics now two months away.

Like Mel Gibson, he too has his "minions," and in placating them he is more demagogic than those he condemns.

In 1852 he won the Concorso Trienniale dell'Accademia with David Placating Saul.

Placating religious fundamentalists is a time-honored tradition for politicians here, and Mr. Sharif hammered on the theme of Islamicization throughout his campaign.

Critics of the Government's move against Miss Nasrin say that it was aimed at placating the Jamaat leaders and drawing them back into Parliament.

And naturally you are remembering Dewdrop and Blackberry, and what you were told about placating the Goddess."

Rufirant was trying to stem the torrent, warding off the blows she was aiming at him, attempting weakly to answer with a placating, "Now, Sura.

Prating of demons and devils and the placating of gods of fear-By your very inference, sir; I suddenly conceive you to mean religion itself!

Mr. Rushdie has ruefully remarked that Labor, a party he has always voted for, seemed more concerned with placating Islamic voters than with defending free expression.

School superintendents seem more concerned this year with placating residents who are angry over high property taxes, which have grown steadily over the last decade even as school enrollments have declined.

The language of the declaration, which implied that Mr. Maliki had the power to command American forces, seemed to overstep his authority and to be aimed at placating his Shiite constituency.

In a way, this isn't much different from what Bill Clinton did in 1992, when he pulled his party to the center while placating its left by muffling Robert Casey, the pro-life governor of Pennsylvania.

So the "solution" is to offer three alternatives on the equivalent of a creaky revolving stage, nicely placating internal stakeholders but doing very little for the true audience, your external audience of millions of users.

After Loewen is convicted, Devlin is forced to publicly state he will not pardon him due to the unrest; Devlin sends him to Oz as a means of placating the black community.

When the tuneup sputtered out early, she stayed slim on angst and let Billie Jean King and Chris Evert, both veterans of placating the final-year blues, spin-doctor her into a competitive froth.

The delaying tactic sounded most promising, both for sparing Constance the pain and for placating Midalis, who had never really been close to his brother, the King, but had never been his rival either.

If you would just give me something to placate them.

I do not want you to try to placate me, woman.

But placating its Government at every turn is not the answer.

"Maybe it would be women who had no men to placate."

And whatever he does will never be enough to placate them.

Why on earth did she feel this need to placate him almost?

One way to placate people who do not move up is to pay them more for jobs well done.

And why does the king think that he should be placated at such cost to us all?

She had thus learned to serve and placate men early.

There is no one I have to placate through marriage.

But does anyone doubt that he also wanted to placate her?

That would placate the team owner, for the time being.

Did he expect her to spend the next two months placating him?

We do not believe that it is necessary to placate God in such a way.

For the next two hours, I did my best to placate the guards.

But Catherine would find a way to placate her later.

Once he has done so, the voice is placated for a while, but it always eventually comes back.

Two years ago, she decided to drop her white friends to placate the black ones.

My mother used to say, "Michael, you're the only one who can placate your father."

A head who had to live near and placate the Federation.

"He had to be found guilty to placate the white population."

For himself, I am sure he would never have troubled to placate them.

"Is that the truth, or are you just saying it to placate me?"

I sometimes had the notion that she was trying to placate me.

That, however, has done little to placate some municipal officials.