The Chinese are doing almost everything possible to placate Russian concerns.

Naturally, monetary and fiscal policy should be tightened, but that is difficult when Putin is trying to placate the population.

Ecuador was therefore left without a Supreme Court, and the decision by Congress was not sufficient to placate the citizenry.

Meanwhile, the Sino Russian relationship has achieved an unprecedented degree of warmth. The Chinese are doing almost everything possible to placate Russian concerns.

The US, and other Western donors, should instead help Egypt to husband its resources, which are often misspent in an effort to placate its people.

The Chinese leadership s motivation in making such changes is not to embrace the ideals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or to placate foreign demands.

These were among the risks associated with America s insufficient stimulus, which was designed to placate members of Congress as much as it was to revive the economy.

The Secretary General went further, with the apparent acquiescence of the Security Council, to placate Ethiopia by appointing a Special Envoy to explore the options of an alternative mechanism as Ethiopia had requested.

But history suggests that new, fragile democracies are more likely to attempt to placate radicals than to eliminate them, and that terrorists can exploit democratic governments respect for civil rights and the rule of law.

As the two most significant global trading powers, the United States and China, especially, must fight tendencies in their own countries to raise hidden barriers or take inappropriate retaliatory action designed to placate domestic public opinion.

He needed to placate Tories and his domestic critics while avoiding the economic and political havoc that would be caused by announcing an imminent referendum that might lead to the United Kingdom s withdrawal from the EU.

Does the recently issued Joint Declaration on Defense Cooperation, which establishes intent to move beyond weapons sales to the co production of military hardware,mark a turning point, or is it merely a contrivance to placate India?

After he was caught spending 1.2 million, even as Merrill Lynch disintegrated, to decorate his new office, Bank of America had to fire him to placate growing revulsion over Wall Street s out of control culture of entitlement.

The information we have indicates that the special envoy is already exploring new arrangements that would accommodate and placate Ethiopia's non compliance with the terms of the Algiers Agreement and its rejection of the Boundary Commission decision.

But it is too early to tell whether its security crackdown in Sinai is a one time operation, intended to placate angry citizens, or the beginning of a serious effort to address the interconnected problems in Sinai and Gaza.

But while Royal has been careful to placate her socialist base, she has also talked about the need for market reforms in the French economy, and taken some foreign policy positions on Iran and Turkey that are closer to the American view than are Sarkozy s.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón has, in this respect, remained faithful to the script written in previous theaters in the drug war, whether in Bolivia, Colombia, or Peru, where governments have used military force and extradition to placate the US and punish those with the least voice and influence.

The LDP has tried to placate public wrath about a series of political scandals and policy mistakes over the last two years, while the DPJ has attempted to capitalize on these. The LDP is now staging a party leadership election in the hope of gaining a temporary boost in popular support before the Lower House election.