| Instead he denounced them and tried to placate the army, thus digging his own grave. |
| She attempts to placate him by giving him something to eat, but he sets the food down behind him because it is too hot. |
| Even though he and I didn't get along, I definitely did those things in order to placate the family. |
| He didn't want to argue so it was easier just to placate her until she went away. |
| Which are deserving and important welfare issues or just the easiest to pick on and likely to placate a few voters? |
| Such an answer cannot hope to placate the war's opponents, let alone satisfy the conspiracy theorists. |
