This tolerance of deeper integration by a small group was a sop to federalists.
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In this area, his attitude seems almost defensive, using symbolic issues as a sop to his Christian backers.
The terms are necessary as a sop to middle-class parents concerned that their children are not being stretched enough.
As a sop, festival officials say they may sign up a bunch of Turkish dervishes to do some whirling.
Fadela Amara, the government minister for cities, who is of Muslim origin and a feminist, called segregated swims a sop to fundamentalism.
While Mail Goggles might be a sop for weekend lushes who like math, it's also part of a much bigger plan to improve Gmail.
This is a sop to Members of Congress and trade lobbyists in Washington who think the U.S. can depreciate its way back to economic health.
She also stated the appointment was a sop to the DUP.
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But as a sop to such reactionaries, Raffles compromised with technology.
But Obamacare, in a sop to the AARP, requires that insurers only charge three times as much to their costliest beneficiaries what they charge to their least-costly ones.
But this flurry of diplomatic declarations may be more of a sop to European consciences than a sign that Europe is at last prepared to take collective action.
Since both parties are in dire need of a sop to throw to the elderly, some sort of package extending Medicare coverage for prescription drugs will probably emerge.
The provisions on oil drilling in Alaska are probably too controversial to pass, but support for a natural-gas pipeline may be thrown in as a sop to the state instead.
But a clause in the French constitution (a sop for the anti-Turkey camp from the previous president, Jacques Chirac) obliges France to hold referendums before approving new accessions after Croatia's.
He argues provocatively that successive American governments chose cheap credit as a sop to the less-skilled parts of its workforce, who increasingly felt themselves being left behind in a globalised world.
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The partnership is a sop for countries that the EU does not want to invite as full members (and, as a result, it may not give the EU much influence at all).
The council ruled that the constitution-drafting commission should be directly elected, perhaps as a sop to easterners who argued that they were underrepresented by the previously proposed allocation of seats in the commission.
Other market-oriented reforms, such as a cut in the unreasonably high subsidy on fertiliser, looked more a sop to the government's critics, and many doubt that the unpopular measure will ever obtain parliamentary approval.
IRA's most recent statement is the first sign of a split, a sop to hardliners to reassure them about decommissioning, or an indication that Sinn Fein no longer means what it says, is impossible to know.
And as a sop to Shas, a religious party that is another needed partner in his coalition, Mr Netanyahu has reversed some of the cuts in child allowances he himself imposed as finance minister four years ago.
The folks at Levi may offer a sop to the stores: It would like to emblazon Levi's banners on the retailers' own Web sites and pay them a commission when their customers buy new duds at the jeansmaker's sites.
He says he did not want to know about who was funding the party because, as the then chancellor, he did not want to be put in a position where any change in tax policy could be interpreted as a sop to donors.
As a further sop to income-tax advocates, Aldrich would sponsor an income-tax constitutional amendment.
The granting of access did seem a small sop to international opinion.
From the 1950s, in many European, Asian and Latin American countries, it functioned as a sponge to sop up unemployment.
Let me ask you this, how many hospitals use a CYP450 affy chip SOP or an invader UGT1a1 assay ?
A. yet another sop to seek to save this most decadent process.
The company has also thrown a one-time sop of 15 free tracks to longtime subscribers like me, but is holding it back until August.
Gloopy toppings, like egg salad with anchovies, or brandada de bacalao, an emulsion of salt cod and potato, can make for messy handoffs (there is only one piece per order), but a side of extra bread helps sop up spills.
Stock markets remain crash-prone despite intermittent rallies and the sop of thinking the worst fate is a double-dip.
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