If not, its leaders will need placating, which will amount to the same thing.
Perhaps these statements are aimed at appealing to conservative voters or placating the conservative intelligentsia.
Other suppliers go to absurd lengths to maintain the facade of a useful Web site while placating retailers.
Although these answers may go some way to placating the public, they fail to address some trickier questions.
Placating them may prove to be the easiest of the challenges that lie ahead for the new government.
The top 12 are: comparing, mind reading, rehearsing, filtering, judging, dreaming, identifying, advising, sparring, being right, derailing, and placating.
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Judges' instructions to juries are often aimed less at clarifying their understanding of the facts than at placating appeals courts.
That said, he sells rabid conservatism in a candy coating, both feeding the social conservatives and placating the fiscal conservatives.
And those who try placating him, by conceding ground and accommodating his wishes, will get nothing in return but more trouble.
As well as placating his coalition partners, Mr Singh must also strive to keep the peace with nuclear-armed India's nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan.
Players will also have to manage teams of quirky personalities, placating superstar designers while keeping labor costs under control and developing new talent.
As airline companies snap up these new planes, they have a chance to reimagine the economy-class cabin in hopes of placating both profit-seeking shareholders and comfort-craving passengers.
And to be clear, placating radical anti-development groups who supported the Obama re-election campaign does not qualify as a legitimate public policy reason for taking any action.
Last week the danger of placating Dobson became clear when a darling of the right, the aptly named Jon Christensen, imploded in the gubernatorial primary in conservative Nebraska.
The al-Saud family has held on to power by placating the kingdom's religious establishment, which is dominated by descendants of the 18th century Muslim cleric Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab.
As with so many other issues, AV is forcing David Cameron, the Conservative prime minister, to choose between pleasing his own party and placating his Liberal Democrat coalition partners.
Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel was on the scene quickly and by all accounts did a credible job of placating worried Michigan residents and corporations as his clean-up team went to work.
Mr Rumsfeld's trip to the headquarters of the 2nd Artillery, which commands China's nuclear and conventional missile forces, was a way of placating a defence secretary who has been telling the Chinese to become more open.
These reversals are both praiseworthy and evidence that, when it comes to national security, being briefed on terror threats as president is a lot different than placating MoveOn.org and Code Pink activists as a candidate.
Analysts say Pakistan's recent missile tests are aimed at placating domestic fears that the country might scale back its nuclear programme following disclosures earlier this year that a Pakistani scientist had leaked nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya and Iran.
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