pour oil on troubled water वाक्य

Each time, the Armenian leaders had to step in to pour oil on troubled waters ."
The first was intended to pour oil on troubled waters and to acknowledge that Zh . Mike had acted appropriately by seeking dispute resolution because he had been poorly treated.
"However much the leaders try to pour oil on troubled waters, " said UBS'Magnus, " It's going to be very hard for the German government to backtrack ."
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 ."