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

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.

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