(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.
Dovish
Definition:
(a.) Like a dove; harmless; innocent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Traders are calling the Dow Jones industrial average up by over 1%, as US investors give the thumbs up to the prospect of a more dovish Fed chair ( although we still don't know who is going to actually replace Bernanke, of course ) Brenda Kelly (@BrendaKelly_IG) $Dow forecast to open 173 points higher.
(2) The vulnerability of the UK recovery, combined with the more decisively dovish tone at the BoE, has led to a significant change in our call on monetary policy.
(3) Kentucky senator Rand Paul has sparked the most excitement so far, particularly among younger liberals attracted by his defiant message on civil liberties and a dovish foreign policy.
(4) The thrust of the report represented an evolution in the dovish direction, though not enough to provoke further QE in the immediate few months.
(5) Williamson said: "I think they will accompany the announcement with a very dovish statement designed not to scare people that the economy is too weak but to reassure stimulus won't be taken away too quickly."
(6) Chris Williamson, of financial data provider Markit, said: “This is clearly good news for consumers in two respects: low prices boost spending power and the dovish outlook for inflation takes pressure off the Bank of England from hiking interest rates any time soon.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Inflation explained.
(7) The prospect of an " even more dovish chairman at the helm of the world’s most pivotal central bank" than Ben Bernanke, as Chris Weston of IG puts it, is giving markets a lift.
(8) James Knightley of ING said: "This is pretty aggressive stuff that has prompted a sharp move lower in sterling and suggests that Carney is very much in the dovish camp."
(9) Instead, Graham takes criticism from those more dovish than him head on, telling audiences: “You may be tired of fighting radical Islam but radical Islam is not tired of fighting you.” Graham may also be the first Republican candidate to talk at length about the need for increased foreign aid, noting: “A small schoolhouse in Afghanistan educating a young girl can do more damage to the Taliban than a 500lb bomb.” Not that Graham is shy about the 500lb bomb.
(10) She also questions whether Yellen is quite as much of a dove as painted: Although Yellen is perceived as the dovish nomination, monetary policy is not as black and white as dove and hawk.
(11) But more dovish Democrats are equally concerned that the new AUMF may represent a step too far in the opposite direction, potentially granting both Obama and future presidents the same kind of unrestrained cover to wage war last used by George W Bush, after he sought authority based on intelligence that was later found to be false.
(12) James Knightley, economist at ING Financial Markets, said: "All in all, the data is pointing to a slowing in the rate of economic growth, which plays into the hands of the more dovish members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee.
(13) I will be evaluating the incoming information to see if it confirms my expectation that growth will be sufficient to further tighten the US labour market.” Chicago Fed leader Charles Evans, a dovish member of the central bank’s board, earlier stressed any increases should be “gradual” and that the base rate, currently 0.25%, could be less than 1% at the end of next year.
(14) With central bankers including US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and ECB boss Mariio Draghi making dovish comments on further stimulus measures, investors have been in a cautiously positive mood.
(15) For us, it’s very important to have a deal – but not any kind of deal.” The commissioner’s tough talking marks a new line from the EU, which has previously been seen as dovish, trying to smooth over differences among developing and developed countries.
(16) A 2013 speech at the Heritage Foundation sounded more dovish notes than all other Republicans of similar stature, but still talked about an open-ended war against “radical Islam” – a note he re-emphasized in his announcement speech – and kept bombing Iran “on the table” in the event of failed nuclear diplomacy.
(17) President Shimon Peres , a usually dovish elder statesman, echoed official vows to punish Hamas in his eulogy in the cemetery in the centre of the country": "I know that the murderers will be found.
(18) But with his Likud party leading in opinion polls and the dovish opposition divided between several parties, her candidacy did not immediately appear to pose a threat to the prime minister.
(19) Stephen Miller, of City University, who led the analysis of the poll data, said the figures showed a majority of British Jews held dovish views of the conflict.
(20) The dovish Posen responded with his own speech, urging his fellow rate-setters to ignore inflation "chatter".