What's the difference between incite and placate?

Incite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In case 2 Tranilast itself and its metabolic derivative proved to be inciting agents by a drug-induced lymphocyte stimulation test.
  • (2) The EU interior ministers issued a joint statement in which they agreed to renew pressure on the major internet companies to step up their efforts to swiftly report and remove material that aims to incite hatred and terror.
  • (3) Such terrorism, they claim, is led or incited by the Muslim Brotherhood.
  • (4) The 54-year-old, who was jailed for seven years for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, has been fighting extradition since 2004.
  • (5) Antitumor drugs, like any other therapeutic agent, have the ability to incite hypersensitivity reactions.
  • (6) In contrast to clonal T cell neoplasms, an invariant array of seven T gamma gene rearrangements was found to be proportionately distributed within normal polyclonal T cell populations, as well as in benign polyclonal T cell proliferations incited by a wide variety of pathological conditions.
  • (7) Beijing is furious at the Nobel committee's decision to give the award to Liu, who is serving an 11-year sentence for incitement to subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms.
  • (8) Liu is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power after co-writing Charter 08, a call for democratic reforms in China.
  • (9) China is furious at the decision to recognise Liu, jailed for incitement to subvert state power after co-authoring a call for democratic reforms.
  • (10) Hampshire police on Wednesday arrested three people on suspicion of using Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger to incite violent disorder in Southampton.
  • (11) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
  • (12) But Tory MP David Morris has written to Metropolitan police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe claiming it was an "incident that may constitute incitement to racial hatred" and asking him to launch an inquiry.
  • (13) The signs are all there: the hate speech, the inciteful statements to supporters, a lot of arms in circulation.
  • (14) He has been held without charges since his arrest on 5 June but has been informed that under martial law he faces up to 14 years in prison on possible charges of inciting unrest, violating cyber laws and defying the junta's orders.
  • (15) Myelin basic protein is the major component of central nervous system (CNS) white matter capable of inciting an autoimmune response which leads to the disease, experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), in a number of animal species.
  • (16) These findings incite to promote prospective randomized studies with this kind of combined therapy.
  • (17) Geert Wilders , the Dutch politician who faces trial for inciting racial hatred, repeated the sentiment that Europe is now “at war”.
  • (18) He also issued a warning that anyone responsible for inciting post-election mayhem would be barred entry to the United States, where millions of Nigerians live.
  • (19) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
  • (20) Ongew used to distribute food to the new villages for the government but when villagers began to complain about the absence of services, he was blamed for inciting them.

Placate


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
  • (v. t.) To appease; to pacify; to concilate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His speech at the United Nations has been seen as a move to placate growing discontents in Palestinian society.
  • (2) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
  • (3) BT's £12.5bn EE takeover gets green light Read more The attempt to placate frustrated customers resulted in BT creating 1,000 jobs at UK call centres last year ; it plans double that number by April 2017.
  • (4) In the shorter term, however, the people who had to be placated were the international debt markets.
  • (5) David Cameron's announcement at the weekend to rush through the next stage of Help to Buy was also aimed at placating the middle classes, despite the risk of creating another housing bubble.
  • (6) Trinity Mirror attempted to placate investors in April with a new pay deal for Bailey that reduced her remuneration by about £500,000, but that failed to satisfy some major shareholders.
  • (7) In recent weeks, repeated efforts had been made to pare down and modify the legislation to placate the rebellious conservatives in the party.
  • (8) As it has edged ever closer to power, the party has launched a concerted campaign to reassure and placate creditors of its policies and intent.
  • (9) The IEA said the final budget could spiral further because of several factors, including: changing routes and carrying out more tunnelling to placate opposition groups; compensation for towns and cities bypassed by the line; and regeneration grants awarded along the line.
  • (10) However, costs such as extra tunnelling to placate opponents in London and the Chilterns have already meant extra money has been factored in.
  • (11) For the three million Greeks now facing poverty, placating creditors means much less than erasing the painful conditions attached to its bailouts.
  • (12) Europe's 17 single currency governments have agreed to deliver €500bn (£418bn) in bailout funds in the hope of erecting a firewall strong enough to contain the sovereign debt crisis, placate the markets and encourage non-eurozone International Monetary Fund (IMF) members to commit a similar sum to emergency reserves.
  • (13) The youths drifted away, peaceful but not placated.
  • (14) The strategy for the NSA and its Washington defenders for managing these changes is now clear: advocate their own largely meaningless reform to placate this growing sentiment while doing nothing to actually rein in the NSA's power.
  • (15) Nobody tells you how to placate the angry parents who think they’ve encountered the world’s frailest child-snatcher.
  • (16) He can't placate these protests as easily as he could when the JMP [the opposition coaliation] were leading them."
  • (17) If there is confusion on this basic point, no foreign government will trust that when a president purports to speak for our country he actually does.” Blinken attempted to placate several angry representatives who demanded Congress have more authority in the negotiations, saying the administration has “more than 200 meetings, calls, [and] briefings” with elected officials regarding the talks.
  • (18) King said a one-off increase, to placate critics in the financial markets, would be a "futile gesture"; but Sentance warned that the Bank would find itself "playing catch-up" if it failed to tighten policy rapidly.
  • (19) Which is why every family should have at least one … Facebook Twitter Pinterest Placator or Curmudgeon?
  • (20) In-tray Cutting the £163bn deficit and the debt mountain without hurting the economic recovery, the poor or British enterprise; sorting out bank regulation – both the rules and the structure; placating the City, which does not like his plan to abolish the Financial Services Authority.

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