conciliatory

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Conciliatory policies soon gave way to sterner treatment, as the occupiers discovered that support for secession and hatred of the invaders reached far beyond the plantation elite.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

"Conciliatory words will have to be matched by actions that are transparent and verifiable," Obama told the annual gathering of world leaders in New York.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2013

Also, that the Arbitrary and Conciliatory Chamber of the National Olympic and Sports Committee is not mandated to handle election matters.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2013

“Everyone is extremely focused on the core issues, the difficult issues, that confront them,” Cohen, the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliatory Service, told reporters in New York.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2011

In the meantime, the commissioners empowered under the new Conciliatory Bills to negotiate the restoration of peace between Great Britain and her former colonies, arrived in the Delaware in the Trident ship-of-war.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington