(n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(2) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(3) As a result of this synthesis the sensation of "ego", appears, and information estranged from it and offered for others is determined.
(4) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
(5) Her estranged father had initially opposed her wishes.
(6) The claim was made in the high court in London by Young's estranged wife, Michelle, who is divorcing him.
(7) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
(8) The revulsion was shared by Breivik's estranged father.
(9) Another told police that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel “couldn’t understand why Isis couldn’t claim its own territory” and others quizzed by detectives, including his estranged wife, spoke of his “violent behaviour”, Molins said.
(10) In the vocational, comprehensive, and agricultural schools, the dropouts scored more positively on the self-estrangement, meaninglessness, and misfeasance scales.
(11) So Shelly Sterling’s reward is to remain a visible part of the franchise, courtside whenever she feels like it, while her estranged husband is banned from the stadium.
(12) It is one of the few things upon which politicians and an estranged electorate agree.
(13) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(14) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(15) The planned apology over Iraq is aimed at helping win back party members who either left or have stayed but felt estranged as a result of the decision to go to war, which Corbyn voted against.
(16) Before she got that opportunity, however, she was shot dead in 2009 by her estranged husband, who promptly killed himself as well.
(17) Certain family situiations create a split between some family members and the suicidal adolescent to the point of total estrangement.
(18) Although Levene and PiL frontman John Lydon remain estranged, Commercial Zone 2014 has the support of the band's former drummer, Martin Atkins.
(19) I asked Coleman if it is ever really possible to be estranged from your family when online culture is so prevalent.
(20) might persuade his estranged wife to lobby on his behalf to her dad.
Reconciliation
Definition:
(n.) The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
(n.) Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(2) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(3) In repeated reconciliation talks overseen by the UN, the ineffectual GNA has so far failed to reach a political compromise with its Tobruk-based rivals in the east, noticeably Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army.
(4) He has previously said the Anzac spirit had “informed our Australian culture and our character ever since that time, and I don’t think that lining it up with NAIDOC week, reconciliation day, harmony day and so on gives it the central focus that it deserves in our curriculum”.
(5) It was, in a critical sense, our nation’s baptism of fire – and 8,000 Australians didn’t come back.” Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sought to underline the theme of reconciliation: “The sons of nations who fought each other on opposing sides 100 years ago will gather under the same roof to convey the message of peace and brotherhood to the world,” he said.
(6) Reconciliation of the observed low binding cooperativity and the high proportion of looped complexes could only be obtained when the titration data were analyzed by a model in which Lac repressor tetramers dissociate into dimers in solution.
(7) The options for “transitional justice” are endless: South African-style truth and reconciliation, a prosecutorial tribunal, such as that handling former Yugoslavia, or something in between.
(8) Since 1945, that reconciliation has become a reality.
(9) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
(10) The dramatic reconciliation of the warring factions comes as the credit crunch and worsening newspaper advertising market has left INM facing a funding crisis.
(11) For it to endure there must be genuine reconciliation between the various parties in Iraq.” Iraqi PM visits Ramadi after declaring Isis will be 'terminated' in 2016 Read more Turnbull added there needed to be “a solution, an outcome, a reconciliation in Syria” in order to maintain peace in Iraq.
(12) "We will remember Pope Shenouda III as a man of deep faith, a leader of a great faith, and an advocate for unity and reconciliation," the American president said in a statement.
(13) With the first group of strikers having now reached a critical stage, all eyes are turned to the government to take a step towards dialogue and reconciliation.
(14) Furthermore … husbands used this opportunity to negotiate reconciliation, financial settlements for divorce, and access to children.
(15) Ivan Lewis, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, said: "Wise and cool heads are needed amongst leaders on all sides who should tone down the rhetoric and reassure people that they remain committed to reconciliation and a shared future.
(16) By rebuilding a Buddha we could regain possession of our history and send a message to the whole world in favour of reconciliation between religions,” says Shukrya Neda, who campaigns for a local NGO.
(17) In the analysis, she attained a gradual reorganization of adaptive functions which allowed identification with the father through her work, reconciliation with the rivalrous siblings, and enjoyment of her female sexuality in heterosexual intercourse with the use of a fetishistic requirement that the man be uncircumcised.
(18) The ceasefires are framed as a part of a national reconciliation but, in effect, amount to surrenders.
(19) They deny any "unconstitutional actions" and say it's economic growth that will bring reconciliation between the nation's 22 million inhabitants, not international pressure.
(20) But if you ask anyone 'Has the tribunal brought reconciliation?'