As usual, Japan's government reacted meekly, offering superficial complaints about China to assuage domestic displeasure.

To be sure, many Latin American leaders have tried to assuage and control Chávez, and they have all failed.

The Doha Round was supposed to make agriculture the centerpiece of negotiations to assuage the deep frustrations of developing countries.

A mere statement by the US that it has no intention to press this military advantage will not assuage China s fears.

Perhaps to assuage political fears and considerations of international law any plebiscite in the Kurdish region should, initially, have only a consultative status.

The second undesirable possibility that governments with little spending capacity to assuage public anger turn against democracy and free expression is also remote for now.

But the many central bank lending facilities that have been opened around the world should assuage these concerns, especially for large and well capitalized banks.

But, just as the 700 billion TARP did not assuage nervousness financial markets in 2008, so the ESM s 500 billion seems to have left investors unimpressed.

In Pétion's south, the gens de couleur minority led the government and feared losing popular support, and thus, sought to assuage class tensions with land redistribution.

But eurozone leaders inability to assuage doubt about their commitment to the euro after two and a half years of crisis suggests that the problem is deeply rooted.

I express my Government's solidarity with the victims and with the Government of the United States, and I ask God to swiftly assuage the grief of so many families.

The American and British governments, increasingly unpopular at home, desperately needed some tangible evidence of progress to assuage their domestic critics and to begin to speak openly of an exit strategy.

The Secretariat could issue the notice to the address provided on the List the Team suggests this simple piece of paper could help to assuage critics and ensure that some process is provided.

This is not, of course, the first time in history that credit expansion has been used to assuage the concerns of a group that is being left behind, nor will it be the last.

This bellicosity has had the effect of pushing Hillary Clinton, the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, into distancing herself from Obama. Like Hollande, she has to assuage public fear by talking tough and promising more military action.

This seeming double standard can be explained partly by a sense of guilt the West has, for the most part, embraced Kosovo s independence in an effort to assuage its own culpability for not preventing Slobodan Milosevic s campaign of ethnic cleansing there.

At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Truman attempted to unify the party by placing a vague civil rights plank in the party platform the aim was to assuage the internal conflicts between the northern and southern wings of his party.

Perhaps to assuage political fears and considerations of international law any plebiscite in the Kurdish region should, initially, have only a consultative status. But it will give legitimate expression to the will of a people long oppressed and entitled to their place in the sun.