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

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

Reeher said he doubts Senator Jeff Flake's (R Arizona) last minute push for an FBI investigation will be enough to placate angry voters.

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

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.

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.

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. Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world, and food subsidies account for approximately 2 of GDP.

Most dangerous of all, a struggling China could be tempted to turn to foreign adventurism to placate a public frustrated by slower economic growth and an absence of political freedom. Indeed, there are some signs that the authorities are doing just this in the South China Sea.

But taxi drivers and pharmacists have successfully resisted efforts to open their professions and make provision of their services more flexible and efficient. The need to placate such interest groups is a serious obstacle to jump starting economic growth, because comprehensive reform is more effective than piecemeal reform.

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. The time that he took to decide what he would say attests to the difficulty of squaring that circle.

But the long term sustainability of the relationship, in which India is more a client than a partner, remains a deep concern for Indians. 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?

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. With soaring deficits, a second stimulus appears unlikely, and, with monetary policy at its limits and inflation hawks being barely kept at bay, there is little hope of help from that department, either.

In order to placate Hong Kong s restive population which included many refugees from China a one country, two systems policy was embedded in the region s constitution, promising Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defense affairs for 50 years. Indeed, Hong Kong enjoys many freedoms that the rest of China lacks, including a judiciary system that is guided by British common law and independent from the executive branch.

Addressing the deep seated social and economic problems of a city like Juárez, however, is a lot harder than flooding its streets with 8,000 soldiers carrying assault rifles. 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.