When are we going to learn in this country that placating the minority to the detriment of the law-abiding community will only end in chaos? |
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In this film, after walloping us with images and falsely placating us with words, the director blinds us with light. |
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The Tie-Up Program succeeded in placating angry licence-holders upset at recent changes to the industry as well as the late fishing plans. |
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It is also not placating the protesters, who take a dim view of politicians. |
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This was the mark of an adept politician, to be able to engage in double talk, a subtle way of placating both communities. |
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Such a university cares more about placating students than it does about enlightening them, even when the placation jeopardizes the pursuit of higher learning. |
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Historically, Halloween was a festival for placating harmful spirits, and sweets were one way of doing so. |
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The minister and the parliamentary secretary both stood up and gave us some placating signals about how they are looking after this. |
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The cave's acoustics intensified the sound, causing her to become fully aware of the headache she was trying to ignore in the hope of placating it. |
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Beijing has gone from placating them, to ignoring them, to telling them that democracy is not for them. |
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In this way, the demise of Kozyrev did not reflect a shift in Yeltsin's worldview but was a political reshuffle aimed at placating his foreign-policy critics. |
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Moctezuma gave lavish gifts of gold to the Spaniards which, rather than placating them, excited their ambitions for plunder. |
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The LTTE has an interest in placating them. |
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As for all the placating from the members and the minister over there about how they are there for them, let me say grab your butts, guys, it is going to be a long tough ride. |
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These measures do not contribute in placating the situation created by the death of Norbert Zongo as they only reinforce the thinking that government has some skeletons in its cupboard. |
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Bonaventure used his authority so prudently that, placating the first group and reproving the second, he preserved the unity of the order and reformed it in the spirit of St. Francis. |
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Instead of placating the situation, the police beat the village men and women indiscriminately, rounded them up and loaded them into a police truck. |
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Government insiders insisted the reshuffle was tantamount to window-dressing, aimed at placating the bodies that had blamed Varoufakis for the lack of headway. |
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Micro-organisms and animal life will be no more affected than before. Although these answers may go some way to placating the public, they fail to address some trickier questions. |
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Finally, it appears that the program also succeeded in placating licence-holders who were angered at the lateness of the fishing plans and the sudden changes to their traditional fishing patterns. |
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In the heart of man, an image had formed of a terrible God, capable of anger and the desire for revenge, so that when they believed they had offended Him, they offered holocausts and sacrifices in the hope of placating Him. |
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