assuaging

So any measure that increases the transparency of the process would be helpful in assuaging liberal anxiety over the effects of the excise tax.

Matthew Yglesias » Health Care and Wages 2010

Young women, suffused with tears, bruise and gash their lovely persons under the idea of assuaging the demon of desire, although by means tending in fact rather to strengthen his influence; others again, in opposite attitudes, solicit the approaches of the Divinity.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Freedburg recalls assuaging the concerns of station personnel who were apprehensive about giving young students access to equipment.

The Nation: Top Stories 2008

The declaration added that recent U.S. concessions will help in "assuaging" the Kremlin's concerns about whether the system is a threat to Russian defenses.

Bush, Putin Leave Door Open 2008

He must have had private doubts even while he was assuaging ours.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

He must have had private doubts even while he was assuaging ours.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

He must have had private doubts even while he was assuaging ours.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

Each year at this time of gifts, merriment and lights, we find ourselves in the increasingly familiar predicament of assuaging our children's angst at not having a religion that takes part in the Holidays.

Maryam Zar: The Persian Conundrum Maryam Zar 2011

Each year at this time of gifts, merriment and lights, we find ourselves in the increasingly familiar predicament of assuaging our children's angst at not having a religion that takes part in the Holidays.

Maryam Zar: The Persian Conundrum Maryam Zar 2011

The bank first offered the low-interest one-week dollar loans as a way of assuaging liquidity concerns after the March 11 disaster.

Demand for BOJ Dollar Loans Perks Up Megumi Fujikawa 2011