(n.) The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(2) However, an amended version of the new contract for England’s 55,000 junior doctors has now finally been agreed, after 10 days of talks overseen by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
(3) It has symbolic value, but its value is not confined to that.” More than 6,000 discrimination complaints have been successfully conciliated since 1975, when the Act commenced.
(4) Nothing should diminish the reality that Eritrean victims of that persecution deserve our solidarity, and need to be supported by all of us who believe that conciliation and concession to regimes such as exists in Eritrea will surely fail.
(5) This paper provides an overview of the rapidly growing area of divorce therapy and describes three models that are currently used by clinicians: psychotherapy only, divorce mediation, and conciliation court intervention.
(6) The conciliation service was called in after around 3,000 workers at oil and power plants across the UK staged unofficial strikes in support of workers at the Lindsey refinery at North Killingholme.
(7) As part of our long-term economic plan, we will sweep away burdensome red tape, get heavy handed regulators off firms’ backs and create a small business conciliation service to help resolve disputes.” It is estimated that small businesses are owed £32bn in late payments but are often unaware of their rights or are reluctant to take legal action, fearing they will lose future business.
(8) Andrew Cowler is a conciliator from Acas Include employees in decision-making : Levels of control over how and when work is done can have a huge impact on stress levels.
(9) Jones adds: "I am very pleased and relieved that it has been announced we are in discussions with Acas [the conciliation service].
(10) In-group and out-group members were predicted to differ in the judged efficacy of coercion and conciliation as social influence strategies, with coercion perceived as relatively more effective than conciliation by outgroup rather than ingroup members.
(11) To avoid escalation of the bottle war, conciliation is needed.
(12) In this context, a wise health secretary should suppress all macho urges to embark on negotiations in anything other than a spirit of caution and conciliation.
(13) Rafferty said the same offer had been on the table at recent talks at the conciliation service Acas, but that Ineos walked away and moved to impose "detrimental terms and conditions" on workers.
(14) Specific features of these sequences together with their particular location within the 30S subunit lead us to postulate a role for IF3, that conciliates topographical and functional observations made so far.
(15) The threat of a national fuel strike has receded after the Acas conciliation service confirmed that peace talks between tanker drivers and haulage companies will take place on Wednesday.
(16) Talks between the British Medical Association (BMA), Department of Health and NHS Employers will resume on Monday and continue until Wednesday, still overseen by the independent Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
(17) • 14 October: Union leaders meet Ineos officials for talks chaired by the conciliation service Acas .
(18) With his deep understanding of "Muslim culture", the president could also foster conciliation and healing with Muslim communities in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.
(19) By 24 months, relatively mature behaviour such as conciliation, teasing, reference to social rules and justification for prohibition were observed.
(20) Under our reforms, record numbers are bringing forward disputes in tribunals or through the Acas conciliation service.
Conciliatory
Definition:
(a.) Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government, too, is keen to strike a conciliatory note, at least compared with the strident tones of the Iron Lady's day.
(2) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
(3) The chancellor, who briefed the UK cabinet this week on plans for a Scottish referendum, spoke out as Alex Salmond , the Scottish first minister, indicated that he would adopt a conciliatory approach in the negotiations on the proposed referendum.
(4) The conciliatory language marked a radical change from the presidency of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a break from tradition dating to the 1979 revolution of referring to the US as the "Great Satan".
(5) When the red team – the Social Democrats, the "left" (formerly communist) party, and the Greens – met the blue team, the moderates, the centre party, the liberals, and the Christian Democrats, none of the players were going to disappoint their team-mates by making some conciliatory pre-election move towards the other side.
(6) Kijowski said KOD would draft its own “conciliatory” bill on the constitutional tribunal, raise a petition and present it to parliament.
(7) But his eight-minute speech offered nothing new or concrete about America's actions on global warming, and he was as indisposed to be conciliatory as China.
(8) The tougher language coming out of the presidential Blue House is seen as an attempt by Park, who has taken a more conciliatory line towards the North since taking office this year, to steer a delicate course between rapprochement and pressure.
(9) Commission president José Manuel Barroso sounded conciliatory at a press briefing in Brussels, saying: Europe needs more Germanys.
(10) The conciliatory tone is being seen as an early attempt to reach out to the South's incoming leader, Park Geun-hye, who takes office in February as the country's first female president .
(11) He pitched himself as a conciliatory figure, a diplomat between two warring tribes.
(12) It walked out of negotiations with NHS Employers about the contractual implications of seven-day working last October, although it has since made conciliatory noises about resuming discussions.
(13) Watson will try to strike a conciliatory tone but has been at loggerheads with the leadership during the election after an outburst about allegations of entryism into the party.
(14) This marks a fresh approach following an attempt on Monday to contain the controversy with a second, more conciliatory, statement by Ivens, the paper's longserving deputy editor who is just one week into his new job, who said: "The last thing I or anyone connected with the Sunday Times would countenance would be insulting the memory of the Shoah or invoking the blood libel.
(15) But it was unclear if Arinç's conciliatory remarks had the blessing of Erdogan, who has previously dismissed the protesters as "looters" and fringe extremists.
(16) Both sides will inevitably stress the friendly, cordial nature of the Downing Street meeting, and Hollande's style is conciliatory and non-confrontational.
(17) The film reflects the conciliatory, almost mystical mood of a man who emerged from prison as a mediator, philosopher and president-in-waiting.
(18) "There would not have been too much negotiating to be done, even, in 2001 or 2002, because the Taliban's senior leadership made their approaches in a conciliatory manner, acknowledging the new order in the country," said Alex Strick von Linschoten, author of An Enemy We Created.
(19) He appeared conciliatory on Ukraine , making no mention of Russia’s annexation of Crimea or military intervention in the east.
(20) Blaming Israel for Gaza’s reconstruction delays is wilful ignorance | Daniel Taub Read more Standard-bearers for the pressure camp routinely claim that a conciliatory approach only reinforces the status quo.