placate in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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To placate the residents, new railway lines were planned.
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In an effort to placate environmentalists, he takes some on a personal tour of one of his holdings.
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It was not in his nature to placate others.
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They often need to be placated for safe passage across a lake.
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To placate him, "yokozuna" was written on the "banzuke" for the first time in sumo history.
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If their ancestors became angry, they would placate them with an offering of black beans and spring water at midnight.
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Often the terms of address and the gifts given to placate a dead elder are identical to those accorded a living one.
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There is no obvious reason for it, and it has been suggested that it was built to placate a local landowner.
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As an animist, he had placated the spirits, but believed that, whether in this life or the next, people were people, not animals or plants.
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There were also festivals meant to placate the kappa in hopes of receiving a good harvest, some of which still take place today.
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