5 sentences with 'appease'
Example sentences and phrases with the word appease and other words derived from it.
• « Even the official British declaration offering support for a Jewish homeland - the Balfour Declaration of 1917 - specifically included language promising the Arabs of Palestine (both Muslim and Christian) support for securing their own 'civil and religious rights'. In other words, the dominant European power in the area at the time, and the one that was to rule it directly from 1920 to 1947, sought to appease both sides with vague assurances. »
• « A ruling class of noble warriors and priests performed daily ritual human sacrifices to sustain the sun on its long journey across the sky, to appease or feed the gods, and to stimulate agricultural production. »
• « However, to appease opponents of repeal, who feared it would weaken parliamentary power over the American colonists, Rockingham also proposed the Declaratory Act. »
• « The Tariff of 1832, passed in the summer, reduced rates on some products such as imported goods, a measure intended to appease Southerners. However, it did not have the desired effect, and Calhoun's nullifiers continued to assert their right to nullify the federal law. »
• « Frederick Douglass, a Maryland slave who escaped to the North in 1838, elaborated on this dimension of slavery in his 1845 account. He told how slave masters had to sell their own children they had with slave women to appease white wives who despised their offspring. »