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Example sentences for "conciliation"

Lexicographically close words:
conciliar; conciliate; conciliated; conciliates; conciliating; conciliator; conciliatory; concilii; conciliis; concilio
  1. That conciliation between the Quirinal and the Vatican which in principle was regarded as impossible, was it not in practice fatal, in face of the evolution which went on day by day?

  2. The worst is that liberty at once becomes license, and that our desire for conciliation is often very badly requited.

  3. Holiness, you spoke to him, and he told you I suppose, as he tells all the foreigners who go to pay their respects to him, that he desires conciliation and peace.

  4. It was long thought that he was in favour of conciliation between the Holy See and Italy; but things drifted into a bad way, and he violently took part against the usurpers.

  5. Every attempt at conciliation on the part of the governor, seemed always to furnish new subjects of irritation.

  6. I think it is doubtful whether I ought to do so, but in view of the prevailing bitterness and excitement it is better to err, if one must err, on the side of conciliation and fairness.

  7. From this and many other such incidents it must have begun to dawn upon Lord Milner's mind that what the Dutch of the Cape Colony wanted was not conciliation but domination.

  8. Adopting the policy of conciliation and of producing dissensions, he should devise means for waging war with the assailant.

  9. Kings extinguish animosities by having recourse to conciliation but, when the opportunity comes, break their foes into pieces like earthen jars full of water dashed upon stone.

  10. One who is competent to win over all men by conciliation should be consulted, O monarch, by the king that is desirous of ruling according to the dictates of the science of chastisement.

  11. If the foe be strong, the adoption of a policy of conciliation (towards him) is not worthy of approbation.

  12. Mr. Kishlaki, eager to obtain the two objects next to his heart, namely, the liberation of the prisoner and the conciliation of the Rety family.

  13. Now she showed herself restive, and Richelieu, who was much set on the conciliation of the Duke, discussed her conduct in a note which contains some of the earliest evidence as to Henrietta's personal character.

  14. Mary de' Medici was present at this interview, and it is said that she put into her daughter's mouth the words of conciliation which the latter used.

  15. He knew that the prevailing system was thoroughly vicious, and he realised that if a policy of conciliation and reform was to be undertaken it could not be effectively carried out by men who were opposed to it.

  16. Every possible concession was made to their natural tastes and feelings, and officers of all ranks in the French army were strictly enjoined to observe a conduct of conciliation and civility on every occasion of intercourse with the citizens.

  17. The art of conciliation that calms ruffled tempers and softens conflict belongs here.

  18. A board of conciliation may persuade conflicting industrial groups to adjust their differences by peaceful methods, and thus inaugurate an ethical movement in industry greatly to the advantage of all parties.

  19. It provides the machinery for settling labor difficulties by conciliation and arbitration, and tries to mediate between gigantic combinations of trade and transportation and the public.

  20. Under the Railway and Canal Traffic Act a mode of dealing with the impasse was provided by conciliation proceedings presided over by the Board of Trade.

  21. I liked his way and thought that conciliation could not be in better hands than his.

  22. A Board of Conciliation was established upon the recommendation of a Royal Commission, but is admitted to have been a failure in the absence of any compulsory reference of disputes.

  23. In New Zealand, the first reference is to an elective Board of Conciliation constituted for the district in which the dispute has occurred.

  24. I am not prepared to state that the difference in attitude was due to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act of the latter country, but the coincidence is calculated to encourage that belief.

  25. A Bill "to provide for conciliation in industrial pursuits" is included in the programme of the Government.

  26. But the President was determined to show all the conciliation it was possible to show, both in this case and in a hundred others.

  27. Conciliation had failed because that was not what the South wanted.

  28. To reach that point of conciliation it would be {134} necessary to make the best of everything, so far as could be without sophistry, violence, or concealment.

  29. This monarch, though generally immovable on social and literary questions, and caring little for the conciliation of the democracy, was much impressed by the power he recognised in Victor Hugo.

  30. He exhorted men of letters to recognise as their mission conciliation for ideas and reconciliation for men.

  31. But the Border States were as yet debatable ground; they might be retained by conciliation and compromise or alienated by hostile measures, whether directed against them or against the seceded States.

  32. There was henceforth no great statesman to lead to that middle path, that course of conciliation without compromise, which Chatham had pointed out, and perhaps might have trodden.

  33. If, on the other hand, conciliation proved impossible, no statesman could for a moment be compared to him in the management of a war.

  34. Requesens, the Governor of the Netherlands, had died whilst his policy of conciliation was as yet incomplete.

  35. He knew Philip better than any of them, and he foresaw that there would be no surrender or conciliation from him.

  36. By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

  37. Conciliation is never employed towards things which are regarded as inanimate, nor towards persons whose behaviour in the particular circumstances is known to be determined with absolute certainty.

  38. Religion, as a conciliation of the superhuman powers, assumes the former member of the alternative.

  39. The storm long raged; at length means of conciliation were tried.

  40. It was not till I had exhausted every means of conciliation that I assumed the tone and language of the first magistrate.

  41. Every attempt at conciliation on the part of Sir Hudson Lowe furnished fresh causes for irritation.

  42. After this fresh assurance of the spirit of conciliation which animates me, I doubt not you will perceive that peace lies in your own hands, and that on your determination will depend the happiness or misery of many thousand men.

  43. D] The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900, with amendments.

  44. Such a policy of conciliation suited the Southern extremists as little as it suited the Northern extremists.

  45. Touching its policy of sectional conciliation it picked its way perilously through the cross currents of public opinion.


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