Thus, politicians have looked for other, quicker ways to mollify their constituents.

Some commentators argue that in repairing relations, Uribe, Calderón, and Lula hope to mollify their left wing opponents.

His attempts to please everyone, so evident in the last few weeks, are likely to mollify no one.

But now those divides are wider. His attempts to please everyone, so evident in the last few weeks, are likely to mollify no one.

Indeed, steps by the authorities to mollify public opinion will continue to be accompanied by increased pressure on the opposition and on civil society organizations.

The West should seek to mollify Russia on core strategic questions like NATO expansion. But that will not help Putin to overcome the source of Russia s weakness, which lies in his inability or unwillingness to see the Soviet Union for the failure that it was.