English-Dutch translation for "to placate"

to placate [placated|placated] {vb} (also: to quiet, to abate, to calm down, to calm)

to placate [placated|placated] {vb} (also: to soothe, to still, to quiet, to calm down)

to placate [placated|placated] {vb} (also: to hush)

to placate [placated|placated] {vb}

Howard is not so easily placated.

This House is not asking to be placated or patronised.

Essentially to say, "We will do anything to placate you, just please stop protesting in public."

The Commission cannot allow principle to be subsumed in a desire to placate trading partners.

Agricultural workers in the European Union need to be placated regarding the future of the CAP and its financing.

I therefore see this as a purely political manoeuvre - President Bush placating domestic and special-interest lobbies.

This might placate anxious European citizens in the short term, but the usefulness and consequences of the measures had not been sufficiently thought through.

He is attempting to placate the rival powers of Russia, Europe and the United States, with the latter having used military bases in the country until recently.