(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?'
Vengeance
Definition:
(n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
(n.) Harm; mischief.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) But within a few months, the disease came back with a vengeance and killed.
(3) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(4) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .
(5) Vengeance and the wish to punish are understandable reactions to feeling duped and fooled.
(6) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(7) It sounds like the premise for a Stephen King thriller, but this tale of fixation and vengeance is the latest chapter of the writer's real life.
(8) Game of Thrones Trailer #2 - Vengeance (HBO) Another world 4.
(9) And this short-lived fixation will move the conversation away from the administrations’s chaotic (or nonexistent) foreign policy, away from Trump’s impulsive vengeance undertaken on behalf of the very same “beautiful babies” he has prevented from entering our country.
(10) Yet the smog came back with a vengeance on Wednesday.
(11) The four horsemen of Trident – Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance – take it in turn to provide a continuous patrol of the world's oceans, wielding a cargo of up to 16 Trident ballistic missiles.
(12) The author examines how these negative affects, the accompanying victim role, and oppositional defiance enable angry adolescents to defend against depression and loss, to demand nurturance from others, to protect their precarious inner autonomy, and to undo their humiliation and shame by vengeance and reversal.
(13) Such gruesome stories of expedience and vengeance have proliferated as fast as North Korea’s missile programmes during Kim’s five-year reign.
(14) It took five months but it seems that the "sad 4chaners" have now indeed reached Gawker, with a vengeance.
(15) In our own way, it is a form of vengeance: by gossiping, we have the feeling we're plotting.
(16) "They hate us, with a vengeance," said another Liverpool officer, adding that the rioters were not dissimilar to the officer's son, who had "fallen by the wayside" ... "He's grown up in a hard area, you know.
(17) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
(18) As Sarah Zielinski from Smithsonian magazine , Kristen Philipkoski on Gizmodo and Mel Robbins on cnn.com state ringingly, while freezing may kill some germs, it most certainly won't kill all, and the germs will return with a vengeance once you wear those jeans again and heat them up to body temperature.
(19) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
(20) Blockbuster machine Marvel were somewhat more successful when they went for a darker approach to Thor: The Dark World in 2013, with a tale filled with vengeance, surprise deaths and dimly-filtered Icelandic locations.