saw that as a sop to powerful southern conservatives

Kerensky’s only sop to the Soviet was the exclusion from his dictatorial Directory of any Kadets

As a sop to my mom, I declared a “Symbolic Systems” major, basically a fancy cog-sci degree, which mostly taught me that all roads led to nil.

just a sop for Ivanka

offering random sops such as the bid to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

The Art Students League will be shrouded but kept barely alive as a sop to its billionaire neighbors; though they may not engage with it, they will have the comfort of knowing there is art close by.

Altogether, a most anti-clerical scene, perhaps intended as a sop to the Puritans of the time (a useless gesture since none of them ever went to plays, regarding them for some reason as immoral).

But Harald's view of life is too blackly logical to give them that sop.

we ridiculed the teaching of hip-hop at Harvard, a shameful sop to black students admitted through affirmative action and, worse, to self-hating white liberals