A salving of conscience, maybe, but no more than that.

India's new government rode to power partly on the back of farmers' angst, but salving it will not be easy.

Their objective was to promote dispatch and economy in the salving of ships and their cargoes.

He was responsible for the salving of the Doncaster--bought in at auction for a hundred pounds, and clearing three thousand after every expense was paid.

After Cox's withdrawal due to financial losses in the early 1930s, Metal Industries Group, Inc. took over the salving of the scuttled German fleet.

Overcoming his physical repugnance, Chief Inspector Heat stretched out his hand without conviction for the salving of his conscience, and took up the least soiled of the rags.

While the two companies say officially that they "are continuing to explore other forms of a strategic relationship," they no doubt will have to do some salving of egos before progress is made on that front.

But by 1890 de Roffignac had been financially reinvigorated by his marriage to Germaine de Salving, daughter of Count de Bosieu, and by his appointment as manager at 'la Rolanderie'.

'Salving Wounds' While helping the ticket was his first aim, Mr. Cuomo said, "implicit" benefits of a peacemaking session included "salving wounds that may have occurred over past situations."

It was in fact a plate from the side of the New Jersey, a steamer which had recently been wrecked outside the Golden Gate, and in the salving of which the Mary Rebecca had taken part.

"Had I interacted with or questioned Apollo myself, I might have been able to determine if there were any priorities beyond a salving of his ego and a desire for control over what he deemed to be mere mortals.

These were the big prophets who prayed so violently and sweat so bloodily and wrestled so strongly, It was they who fought for the salving or the salvation of the days, in fear and in chuckling, in scare-shaking and in laughter-shaking.

Put a salve on his back, whatever you think best.

The efforts, however, may not provide much of a salve.

His hands and face were covered with a light salve.

"And you're really going to tell me the name of this salve?"

The salve did have a time limit of a day or so.

But time can be a salve and music a salvation.

His face was moist too from the salve he used.

To be sure, I had made her yield as the salve she was.

And I remember she dressed it with some kind of salve.

She used more of this salve to massage my feet.

This salve made her feel as if she were floating.

One report says some sort of salve was used to stop the bleeding made during the cut.

Even though he'd put on salve, they still were driving him crazy.

I sat there and she began rubbing salve over my face.

He had salve in the bus; too much trouble to go out for it now.

Those words had become a salve to her shattered spirit.

But we got the salve on in time; you should be fine now."

"Did you rub in the salve I sent after dinner last night?"

In other cases, the body is rubbed with a magic salve.

I shall see some healing salve is there ready for you.

Major, do you happen to have any hemorrhoid salve on hand?

I need you to start turning the liquid into burn salve.

"Our former physician would have given me some salve or other for these.

The leaves were once used to lay on wounds as a salve.

She spoke as a doctor applied a white salve to her skin.

Just remember this: people are not going to fall for a bit of salving talk when they want nothing.

He could only hope that time would salve the wounds.

"My mother has some salve you can put on it," he said.

She was just what he needed to salve the day's frustrations.

She knew I was just trying to salve my conscience by being nice to her.

How many men would die before the king's pride was salved?

Perhaps, he thought, it helps to salve her own conscience.

Certainly no mere gift had the power to salve her pain.

Today's good fiscal times can go a long way toward salving disputes.

But then, for what salve it gives me, every man's a fool.

There is plenty of cash on hand to salve the wounds.

It would be just like him to salve the fractured heart with chemicals.

I did not deny him this attempt to salve his conscience.

"But God has a way of salving these differences and bringing us together.

She may have been salved and sold in 1773.

Route 206, at least for now, is one of those places to salve that."

Wine salves the sadness, but then the morning comes and the right side of the bed is still empty.

Making me feel better will salve your conscience while you get rich."

She was salved on 6 September 1923 and then recommissioned.

It salves the conscience, makes you feel good, but actually does absolutely nothing to address the real problems of the region.

Still, the commission's work will go only so far to salve the pain of many Peruvians.

But do not let us allow their punishment to salve our consciences.

Small errands, but they would salve his pride, and from him had been learned all of use.

It was the only way to salve anything out of this ruin, with all to gain and nothing to lose.

He means to do what you ask, when his pride has salved itself in Tyre.