How To Use Mollify In A Sentence
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Rather than opposing free trade, they're trying to mollify its effects and work out how we can live with it.
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If Obama turns his back on the Republicans and blatantly foregoes bipartisanship just so he can mollify his base, he, along with the rest of the Dems, will regret it!!!!
Clinton's advice to Obama: Forget about Republicans
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There are serious flaws to the agreement that prevent it from being anything more than a feel-good measure designed to mollify the Green Party.
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He was just kind of mollifying him and they're interpreting that in a kind of interesting way.
CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2005
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I'm not much good for anything else,’ he added ruefully, hoping that an admission of his poor seamanship would mollify the other boy.
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He has a remarkable ability to grasp sports politics and to mollify fury; he did so last year when his position was under attack, and came out smiling.
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The tranquil uses of red and orange brickwork, with their auburn hedges, mollify the harshness of the sky above Pissarro's characteristically low horizon.
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Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists.
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The economist's not so Grand Experiment - while thus far mollifying economic adjustment - has acted significantly to exacerbate financial and speculative excess.
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The Government's assurances failed to mollify opponents, who say people are already leaving university with debts of £20,000 or more.
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Troubles soon followed the marriage, in the nonarrival of the money; and after five weeks in Edinburgh, where Hogg had joined the Shelleys, followed by a little over a week in York, the need became so pressing that Shelley felt obliged to take a hurried journey to his uncle's at Cuckfield, in order to try and mollify his father; in this he did not succeed.
Mrs Shelley
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More regularly, Frances suggested, trying somewhat to mollify Bridget, than she had met with Peter.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Abasio merely grunted as he went to unhitch Big Blue, leaving it to Olly to mollify Coyote.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Meanwhile, the CEO has another albeit modest , plan to help mollify employees.
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Abasio merely grunted as he went to unhitch Big Blue, leaving it to Olly to mollify Coyote.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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I raised my hands to mollify him, realising too late that he was in the wrong mood.
THE MANANA MAN
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Meanwhile, the CEO has another albeit modest , plan to help mollify employees.
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Even when accepted by the establishment, any artist worth his/her salt can't mollify normative ideas, for to do so makes art invisible.
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‘She's right Chris, don't look so put out, ’Betty said, attempting to mollify Chris.
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Abasio merely grunted as he went to unhitch Big Blue, leaving it to Olly to mollify Coyote.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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It was a so-so show - certainly not enough to mollify the effects of standing in a freezing queue for 40 minutes.
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We'll probably just see a bunch of cosmetic amendments to mollify the rebels.
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I think she would have succeeded even in mollifying Godfrey, if she had not so pertinaciously defended David Stuart from all his criticisms, and shown so open a regard for him.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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Was the company mollifying his considerable ego after it had squeezed out contract concessions?
What Really Rescued the Caped Crusader
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They must perish, and there is no over-god to stop or to mollify this hideous enginery that grinds and thunders, and takes them up into its terrific system.
Uncollected Prose
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I work in the media and I have no interest mollifying the likes of me over the course of a long and bloody campaign.
Wow. Sen. Ralph Nader. « Dating Jesus
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The inves-tigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.
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They could do little else as they were facing a hammering and their gutsy performance in the last third of the match may have gone some way to mollifying the home support in the 6,000 crowd.
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I still think it'll be fascinating to see what rhetorical path she chooses to try and mollify her liberal fans.
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You can reason with a mastiff, take a bull by surprise, fascinate a snake, frighten a tiger, mollify a lion; but there is no resource with the monster known as a loosened gun.
Great Sea Stories
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She then gave me a cute, shy little smile, completely unaware that her doing that alone was enough to mollify me.
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It would relieve the pressure from the peace groups in the United States and mollify many of the doves.
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Those who hate the US will continue to hate the US; the kind of people who hate the US, we should have * no* interest in mollifying.
Iraqi democracy « BuzzMachine
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She managed to mollify the angry customer
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Part of the aim was to contain worthy claims being made by popular movements, to mollify demands for bread and votes with food for the spirit.
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I raised my hands to mollify him, realising too late that he was in the wrong mood.
THE MANANA MAN
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Abasio merely grunted as he went to unhitch Big Blue, leaving it to Olly to mollify Coyote.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Brown was ready to mollify the union leaders, with whom he has a long and close association, with a pledge to continue the debate on the issue.
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This need to construct and utilise language in such a way that it cannot be taken as offensive… well, I really never understood the need to mollify language.
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Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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I raised my hands to mollify him, realising too late that he was in the wrong mood.
THE MANANA MAN
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Though the room was crowded with people when the bailiff entered, not one of them had compassion enough to mollify my prosecutrix, far less to pay the debt; they even laughed at my tears, and one of them bade me be of good cheer, for I should not want admirers in
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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More regularly, Frances suggested, trying somewhat to mollify Bridget, than she had met with Peter.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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It rarely failed to mollify, but carried with it the penalty of having to iterate the performance many, many times.
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Her mother called in tears, and now Anna feels that she has to travel to Davis to mollify her.
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My feeling is that he will leave, though good results could yet mollify him.
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Together, they were able to mollify workers and quietly implement the destruction of thousands of jobs.
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He sprinkles his prose with references to the old guard as if to mollify unacquainted readers with names of recognizable authors.
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I made the introduction mostly to mollify the woman who looked like she'd rather shoot us than hear our story.
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The inves-tigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.
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Domestic space functions in a similar fashion in East and West - it is a concession granted to the worker/consumer to mollify exploitation.
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They're only job has beento mollify the credulousAmerican people (sheople) into submission.
Worldwide, Stock Prices Plummet, Assets Crumble in Days.
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Abasio merely grunted as he went to unhitch Big Blue, leaving it to Olly to mollify Coyote.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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I've had nephews break things, and the parents were very apologetic and took full responsibility (and that's all it took, an apology, to mollify us).
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Though attempts were made from time to time to mollify nationalistic sentiments, most were cursory and lacked substance.
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More regularly, Frances suggested, trying somewhat to mollify Bridget, than she had met with Peter.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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I always thought that vetoing our bill, and casting himself as the defender of traditional American values, was his way of mollifying the conservatives and creating a little maneuvering room to make the China trip.
The Good Fight
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Churchill's clarifications and emendations, convincing or otherwise, are not likely to mollify his opponents.
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The OED records uses of supple as a transitive verb, meaning ‘to soften or mollify a wound,’ from 1526 to 1688.
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Such arguments merely aim at mollifying criticism.
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So by extending this amnesty saying we really tried everything now we're going to do it hard, maybe this is a way of kind of mollifying Saudi public opinion, as well.
CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2004
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To mollify the Israelite God, the Philistines included five golden “hemorrhoids” one for each city of the Philistine pentapolis and five golden mice.
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