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Перевод: mollify
[глагол] смягчать; успокаивать
Тезаурус:
- Well aware of the danger of losing British goodwill, the Emperor had instructed the Empress, who was acting as Regent during his absence at the head of the French Army, to write to Queen Victoria in an attempt to mollify her alarm and, if possible, to enlist her support for his policies.
- That, too, should mollify the Americans - at least, for the time being.
- To clear the breast, to mollify all pain.
- There is no point in complaining; they may try to mollify you in their irritatingly good English, but they will not have a clue what you are so anxious about.
- MacArthur remained sceptical and told Gascoigne he doubted whether Washington meant business on the treaty: in his opinion it was a "smokescreen" intended to mollify those allied countries who had made representations.
- Kilmer is part-Indian and is expected to exploit this to mollify the natives but Kilmer rediscovers his tribal heritage while Shepard finds the politics of an already volatile situation beginning to spin out of control.
- Dzerzhinsky wrote that the swifter exchange of goods would help to reduce taxes levied on the peasants and so mollify them and speed up the realization of smychka between town and country; but towards the end of the year he admitted in a resigned tone: "Can such a huge enterprise like transport really change in a moment, can people really be regenerated at once?
- Later, I tried to mollify her by pointing out that the teacher had said what a nice boy he was.
- Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists.
- On the other side, to mollify France, it was agreed that British participation in the revamped body would involve the stationing of British troops in West Germany unless a majority of its partners consented to their withdrawal; however, Britain reserved the right to do so if an emergency situation elsewhere demanded a redeployment of its military forces.
- None of these points will mollify the biggest Tory sceptics.
- LEEDS opened and finished this Regal Trophy second-round game at Headingley with tries of such quality as to mollify their followers for all the dross in between.
- At the same time, however, the politician's inevitable inability to satisfy all of his friends demanded great management skills to mollify the disappointed.
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