conciliatory
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Conciliatory talks between the local authority and Unite, chaired by the arbitration service Acas, have so far failed to reach a solution both sides can agree on.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025
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 United Nations General Assembly.
From Reuters • Sep. 24, 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
Conciliatory measures for inducing the seamen to return to their duty were tried in vain.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Vocabulary lists containing conciliatory
Power Prefix: con-
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