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Jordan believed poetry had the power to teach and educate, and she did not shy away from difficult word choices to appease the working class.

South Korea thought it had appeased its powerful friend.

"You could always appease lions by throwing Christians to them," Harold Macmillan, a future prime minister and opponent of the policy, once said.

Did Britain’s Labour government torpedo a spying case to appease Beijing?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday urged allies against appeasing Russia, in a statement after he returned from a trip to the United States where he failed to secure long-range Tomahawk missile supplies.