The audience seems placated, but he really doesn't get the crowd going until he starts talking economics.
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This placated Malaysia's leaders, and should put a stop to the more extreme calls for retaliation floated in the Malaysian press.
Time and again management has placated employees rather than cut moneylosing businesses.
Countries that lack America's resources will not be placated by words alone.
Mr Ghannouchi's pledges to allow political and media freedoms do appear to have placated some protesters, but others have dismissed the new government.
With many companies understandably angry over the loss of their favored treatment, they could likely be placated by an across-the-board cut in corporate income tax rates.
The PJD has placated nervous Western allies, too, especially France.
"I think there are too many people in the business who give the client what they want, so they continue to be a client and they're placated, " he says.
At the same time, and despite his calls for a harmonious "One Malaysia, " the prime minister has placated his party's ethnic Malay base by protecting pro-Malay affirmative action in government, business and education.
So far the Americans have placated the two Kurdish leaders, whose parties have yet to unite fully, with an offer of loosely-defined federalism, which they interpret as including their own parliament and ministries.
Those critics who argue that Deutsche's dual role as lender and investor may create conflicts of interest should also be placated if, as promised, the stakes are managed at arm's length from the bank.
These nefarious forces made it impossible for Obama to bring the sort of pressure to bear on Israel that would have placated the Arab world and paved the way for a peaceful settlement.
Too often we have allowed ourselves to be placated and charmed by fantasies about umpire judges calling "balls and strikes, " without ever asking which league the game is being played in or whether the umpire was standing in the best position to see the play.
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