2 Sentences With "pour oil on troubled waters"

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Evans, who was temporarily suspended from the party earlier this year for publicly criticizing a UKIP candidate, said she could "pour oil on troubled waters" in a party which had at times been too dominated by testosterone.

He served as regent until his resignation in 1935. Upon his resignation, the Harvard Crimson described him as "obscure by preference and by the nature of his functions, and an officer of the University unknown to students who followed the relatively straight and narrow path....Since he acted as an intermediary without disciplinary authority, his office was largely what he himself wanted to make it, and he considered it a roving commission to pour oil on troubled waters."Wright, 29; Harvard Crimson: "Luce '91 Appointed Regent," January 20, 1919, accessed December 19, 2009; New York Times: "Resigns as Harvard Regent," July 1, 1935, accessed December 20, 2009; Harvard Crimson: "Office of Regent Passes With Resignation of Matthew Luce," October 4, 1935, accessed December 19, 2009. His earlier attempt to resign failed.

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