| 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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| Katherine did not look impressed by his efforts of placation. |
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| We are not here to get a degree, to then get a job, so we can consume industry-approved placation after placation. |
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| The need for consensus and placation is a particularly human perversion of science, but it happens all too often because office and personal politics make it necessary. |
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| With a brother like mine, placation soon becomes a necessary part of life. |
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| The degree of patronisation and placation in Western feminism is antithetical to values and goals of many black women. |
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| With the courtesy that one nation knows for another, the Greeks have trodden a path of conciliation over anger, placation over rancour, humour over hostility. |
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| Bill O'Reilly might be setting a new standard for placation presents. |
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| The same violence re-emerged in the early 1970s, and at that time we saw placation and capitulation, which resulted in a constitutional amendment declaring Ahmadis non-Muslim. |
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| Instead, Jerry was all placation and appeal, all softness of pleading. |
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