(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.
Irenical
Definition:
(a.) Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the time we start producing, the prices will have gone up,” said Uganda’s energy minister, Irene Muloni.
(2) Predictably perhaps, black artists have been most successful in the best original song category, with Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Irene Cara among the five winners.
(3) He pulled up beside us and got into the back seat of Irene’s car.
(4) Irene Tu : ‘Read up on history and take self-defense classes’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest I’m going to spend the next couple months reading, taking self-defense classes, and writing a ton of jokes.
(5) Irene Joan Sims, actor, born May 9 1930; died June 27 2001
(6) Photograph: Irene Baque for the Guardian A leading international lawyer, Felicity Gerry QC, had hoped to halt the move with an emergency injunction and a judicial review, but that proved to be impossible for legal reasons.
(7) Lead content was determined in the skeletal tissue of 82 individuals representing two black and two white Colonial American populations: Catoctin Furnace, College Landing, Governor's Land, and Irene Mound.
(8) Read more Irene Namusuubo Guloba, the headteacher, says: “Around 250 of our pupils did not come back this year.
(9) Home And Away stalwart Lynne McGranger, who's played Irene Roberts since 1992, is having trouble getting her head around legal highs.
(10) Irene Fogel Weiss, born in 1930 in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia, now Batrad, Ukraine.
(11) "Perhaps Irene puts it best – she certainly puts it most often – when she tells Tod that he has no soul."
(12) Yours sincerely, Irene B. Rosenfeld 7 September 2009 Dear Roger, Thank you for your letter in response to our discussion on 28 August and the letter I sent to you as a follow-up outlining our possible offer (a "Possible Offer") for Cadbury plc ("Cadbury").
(13) Their hits included Lead Belly's Goodnight, Irene , the Israel folk song Tzena, Tzena Tzena and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine : hardly the anthems of a coming revolution, but in 1952, at the height of the anti-communist witch hunt, their known sympathies got them blacklisted by radio and TV stations and concert promoters.
(14) The review, to be led by Irene Curtis, the president of the Police Superintendents’ Association, is to be used to detail the use of targets in each force and to analyse their impact on police officers’ ability to fight crime.
(15) Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld had phoned Cadbury's chairman Roger Carr on Sunday to set up the secret 11am meeting, and the two shook hands on the £12bn deal in the sumptuous five-star surroundings.
(16) 1.32pm GMT The latest medal table Norway still lead , with the Netherlands moving up to second after Irene Wust’s triumph.
(17) So her fellow Dutch lady Irene Wust wins gold, the former champion Martina Sablikova takes silver – and Olga Graf wins Russia’s first medal of the Games.
(18) Merkel has held the top spot since 2006, except in 2010 when she was surpassed by three American women: first lady Michelle Obama, Mondelez International CEO Irene Rosenfeld, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
(19) The instant Irene Adler's scarlet-tipped fingers extended across the frame on Sunday night, it seemed certain that Steven Moffat's rewriting of Sherlock Holmes's famed female adversary would cause some consternation.
(20) Mas, who governed Catalonia from 2010 to 2016, will appear at the high court in Barcelona on Monday along with former vice-president Joana Ortega and former education minister Irene Rigau.