mollify
- Examples
| My life is one long mollifying fog. | La vida se me está volviendo una neblina. | 
| And the mollifying speeches of the Daphne programme do not compensate for the rest. | Y los discursos mitigadores del programa Daphne no compensan todo lo demás. | 
| Quảng Đức's act increased international pressure on Diệm and led him to announce reforms with the intention of mollifying the Buddhists. | El acto de Thích Quảng Đức incrementó la presión internacional contra Diệm, por lo que anunció diversas reformas con la intención de apaciguar a los budistas. | 
| However, Madrid has not succeeded in mollifying the firebrand and during 2006 it became increasingly disillusioned with him and more distant. | Sin embargo, Madrid no ha conseguido aplacar a este agitador y a lo largo de 2006 se ha ido mostrando cada vez más desilusionado y distante con él. | 
| After all, the military needs some mollifying: The Iraq war has turned increasingly nightmarish, and deference toward the administration is visibly eroding. | A fin de cuentas, el ejército necesita algún factor tranquilizador: La guerra de Irak se vuelve cada vez más una pesadilla, y la deferencia hacia la administración se erosiona visiblemente. | 
| This inward retreat, which coincides in Nicaragua with the decline of unions, professional associations and mass movements, is occurring within a mollifying process, a sidestepping of conflict. | Este repliegue al interiorismo, que coincide en Nicaragua con el declive de los gremios, movimientos de masas y sindicatos, deviene en un proceso de ablandamiento, soslayando el conflicto. | 
| Further, Marshall notes, another small segment—possibly 20%—is actually costing you, in terms of the time and energy you have to spend on mollifying and caring for them, more revenue than they provide. | Yendo más allá, Marshall nota otro pequeño segmento – posiblemente 20% – que te está costando, en términos de tiempo y energía que tienes que gastar en calmarlos y preocuparte por ellos, siendo más lo que te cuesta que lo ganas por ellos. | 
| Daniel Ortega's speeches are aimed at mollifying a social base that wants and needs to hear a revolutionary discourse. | El discurso de Daniel Ortega solo apunta a mantener tranquila y confortable a una base social que quiere oír ese discurso, un discurso revolucionarista. | 
| In the beef and veal sector, despite the mollifying proposals that Commissioner Fischler has put to us - he would have us believe that the crisis is now behind us - we are still in a slump. | En el sector bovino, a pesar de las tranquilizantes palabras del Comisario Fischler - que pretende hacernos creer que hemos dejado atrás la crisis - el descenso de ventas persiste. | 
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