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.

Jeśli właśnie dałbyś mi coś udobruchać ich.

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

Nie chcę byś próbował udobruchać mnie, kobieta.

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

Ale udobruchanie jego Rządu na każdym kroku nie jest odpowiedzią.

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

"Może to byłyby kobiety, które nie miały żadnych mężczyzn udobruchać."

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

I cokolwiek, co on robi nigdy nie będzie wystarczyć by udobruchać ich.

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

Dlaczego na ziemi była świadoma tej potrzeby by udobruchać go prawie?

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

Jeden sposób by udobruchać ludzi, którzy nie przesuwają się ma płacić ich więcej dla prac dobrze zrobiony.

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

Niby dlaczego król myśli, że on powinien zostać udobruchany w takim koszcie do nas wszystkich?

She had thus learned to serve and placate men early.

Stąd nauczyła się służyć i udobruchać ludzi wcześnie.

There is no one I have to placate through marriage.

Nie ma nikogo, kogo mam udobruchać przez małżeństwo.

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

Ale nikt wątpi, że również chciał udobruchać ją?

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

To udobruchałoby właściciela zespołowego, na razie.

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

Oczekiwał, że ona spędzi następne dwa miesiące udobruchać go?

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

Nie dowierzamy że trzeba udobruchać Boga w takiej drodze.

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

Przez następne dwie godziny, zrobiłem, ile w mój mocy udobruchać strażników.

But Catherine would find a way to placate her later.

Ale Catherine znalazłby sposób by udobruchać ją później.

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

Jak tylko zrobił tak, głos jest udobruchany przez chwilę, ale to zawsze ostatecznie wraca.

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

Dwa lata temu, zdecydowała się wysadzić swoich białych przyjaciół udobruchać czarne.

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

Moja matka użyła by powiedzieć "Michael, jesteś jedynym, który może udobruchać twojego ojca."

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

Głowa, która musiała żyć blisko i udobruchać Federację.

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

"Musiał zostać uznanym winny udobruchać ludność białą."

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

Dla siebie, jestem pewny, że nigdy nie zadałby sobie trud by udobruchać ich.

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

"To jest prawda, albo jesteś w trakcie kazać temu udobruchać mnie?"

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

Czasami miałem pojęcie że próbowała udobruchać mnie.

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

To, jednakże, niewiele zrobiło by udobruchać jakichś miejskich urzędników.