To assuage voters who might have been concerned about the transfer of power, she stated that her husband would be her " No. 1 assistant ".

In order to mitigate rising levels of starvation and assuage peasant discontent, grain was speedily imported from Sicily through Talamone, were taken from the city purse by the Florentine commune to aid the relief effort, and all the city's bakers had their ovens requisitioned by the government so that loaves of bread could be sold at affordable prices to the riotous and starving poor.

Unlike the situation with Dong Zhuo, though, Cao Cao knew how to assuage the other generals and nobles, and while he gave them little power, he made sure that they remained honoured, so minimal opposition against him developed at the imperial court.

Burns made an appearance on The Rosie O ' Donnell Show to dispute these rumors, and he and co-creator Angela Santomero appeared on Today to help parents assuage the fears of children who might have heard the rumors.

Burns made an appearance on The Rosie O ' Donnell Show to dispute these rumors, and appeared with co-creator Angela Santomero on Today to help parents assuage the fears of children who might have heard the rumors.

As a result of this minor ordeal and to better assuage the offended parties, the Punch Bowl made their Spring 2008 issue " 43 % less racist.

According to Livy, the Rutuli were, at that time, a very wealthy nation and Tarquinius was keen to obtain the booty which would come with victory over the Rutuli in order, in part, to assuage the anger of his subjects.

Albarn, however, attempted to assuage fans ' fears that the album would be electronic by providing reassurances that the band's new album would be " a rockin ' record ", and also stated that it has " a lot of finely crafted pop songs ".

To bolster his claims, pressure owners to pay him off and to assuage those who had bought lots from him in earnest, Streeter staged a series of " invasions ", when he would lead a small group of squatters carrying shacks to the lake shore to quickly set up settlements.

Henry explicitly stated that he would defend Tuscany from Spanish aggression, but later reneged, after which Ferdinando was forced to marry his heir, Cosimo, to Maria Maddalena of Austria to assuage Spain ( where Maria Maddalena's sister was the incumbent Queen consort ).

Given the task of arresting dishonest businessmen who hoarded supplies for profit during the inflationary spiral, he attempted to assuage the business community by explaining that his team would only go after big war profiteers.

" MacPaint continued to be bundled free with every new Macintosh until the introduction of the Macintosh Plus in 1986, when it was sold separately to assuage concerns from third-party software developers that their products would not be able to compete.

At the Oxford Parliament, Charles insisted he would listen to any reasonable expedient short of changing the line of succession that would assuage the nation's concerns about a Catholic successor.

Instead, he adopted the concept of trusses or “ a series of open triangles ” to assuage wind force that “ would blow right through them ”.

The promoters were able to assuage the Committee ’ s fears that the works would be heavy and costly and the bill received Royal Assent on 21 July 1845 as “ An Act for making a Railway from Belfast to Ballymena in the County of Antrim, with Branches to Carrickfergus and Randalstown ”.

This theory was used to promote expansion into the American West, in order to assuage would-be settlers that the " current " lack of precipitation would not hinder their ability to engage in agriculture.

To assuage this fear, IBM demonstrated in 2005 how Workplace and Notes / Domino products would be integrated with each other.

A new, more uptempo arrangement of the theme song was introduced for the third season, but this did not assuage the song's critics, and elicited criticism from some who liked the original version.

However, his personal charm with people at all levels of society and his strong condemnation of prejudice went some way to assuage republican and racial tensions building during his lifetime.

The opportunities available drew a number of young, high-powered sales people, and some observers felt that vice presidencies were handed out freely to assuage egos.

Brunhilda and Protadius soon persuaded Theuderic to return to war with Theudebert, but the mayor was murdered by his warriors, who did not wish to fight to assuage the ego of the queen.

Some very realistic Hot Wheels Caterpillar models were actually re-branded to Matchbox to demonstrate the latter statement ( though this did not necessarily assuage concerns about the truth of the former ).

This did much to assuage Sydney's longstanding concerns about her importance in her father's life.

Under protest from Native American groups the character's name was altered to Chief Wampumstompum, though this did nothing to assuage the concerns of protesters.

This was adopted in the first decade of the organization to assuage the Catholic Church that the work of the YMCA in getting Scouting established in this country did not mean that it was a Protestant proselytizing organization:

To prevent further political violence and to assuage public outrage, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in 1883, which set up the Civil Service Commission.

In an August 2002 speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, US Vice President Dick Cheney sought to assuage concerns about the anticipated US invasion of Iraq, stating: " As for the reaction of the Arab ' street ,' the Middle East expert Professor Fouad Ajami predicts that after liberation, the streets in Basra and Baghdad are ' sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.

While tagging along after British cartographer Walter Russell ( Patrick Bergin ), Avik falls prey to the " white man's disease ,"-- tuberculosis ; to assuage his own guilt, Russell takes the boy to a Montreal clinic to recover.

Dining together during carnival night in Venice, and to help assuage her guilt, Astaire declares: " Let's eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we have to face him ," which serves as the cue for the music of " The Piccolino ", the film's big production number.

Festivals were also held in ancient Rome in response to particular events, or for a particular purpose such as to assuage or to honour the gods.

The primary concerns of the new Government were: to resolve the conflict with Colombia ( peace was negotiated in May 1934 ); and to assuage internal political agitation ( Tauro, vol 1, p. 266 ; Orrego, p. 894 ) for which purpose, Benavides outlawed the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ), arguing that it was an international party, prohibited by the Peruvian Constitution, and repressed the Communist Party for the same reason.

Kelly's support for biofuels drew criticism from activists who felt that it impoverishes third world farmers to assuage first world environmental guilt.

The second provision, for the Rotuman administrative system, was to assuage the fears of the Rotuman Islanders of political and cultural domination by the other population groups.

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Mercer first enlisted prominent local married couples to act as hosts for the women once they arrived to assuage Victorian era moral concerns over the propriety of importing single women to the frontier.

Meanwhile, in an effort to help Secret come to terms with her tragic past and assuage her concerns over what she considers her " true nature ," Snapper arranges for Suzie to be taken in by the Spectre Hal Jordan in a mentoring capacity.

This victory helped to assuage the defeat which Allen had suffered earlier in the year, when he lost another race for mayor.

Symptoms are usually worse for patients when the weather is warm and dry, whereas cooler temperatures and rain tend to assuage symptoms.

He took morphine to assuage the pain, which led to dependency problems for the rest of his life.

The hand attacks Cummins, but he is able to assuage the hand's quest for vengeance by giving the hand Ingram's signet ring.

He argues she was a tool by which the Catholic Church furthered its political and theological aims, and the cult of personality that she developed was used by politicians, dictators and bankers to gain credibility and assuage guilt, citing Hillary Rodham Clinton, Charles Keating and Michèle Bennett as examples.

The German government of the time managed, however, to assuage Israeli feelings by providing the Israeli Navy with several advanced submarines, which, according to repeated reports in the international press, were used to mount nuclear missiles and provide Israel with a second strike capacity.

In vain he undertakes to find Astarte, his ideal spirit who alone has the power to assuage the feeling of guilt with which he is obsessed.

During this period, he was a principal author of the Spanish Constitution of 1876, a document which formalised the constitutional monarchy that had resulted from the restoration of Alfonso and limited suffrage in order to reduce the political influence of the working class, and assuage the voting support from the wealthy minority becoming the protected Status Quo.

Mattie, although fiercely competitive in every sport, was blessed with an easy temperament which helped him to assuage fears and tensions.

Their web site featured a letter dated April 20, 2005, four days before the event took place, which sought to assuage churches ' fears of challenges to their tax-exempt status under laws prohibiting political activity by tax-exempt churches.