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  • noun Plural form of conciliation.

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Examples

  • Her negative posture is evidence of someone incapable of making conciliations in the real world. wwf

    Last minute Clinton ad: 'What has happened to Barack Obama?' 2008

  • We've tried everything, from Jimmy Carter's conciliations to George W. Bush's war mongering.

    Craig Crawford: It's Up to You, Israel and Islam 2009

  • Releasing its annual report for 2006/07, it said on Wednesday there had been a 19 percent improvement from the previous year in conciliations heard within the statutory 30-day period.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • In it, and in all other matters in dispute, whether they were small or big in nature or local or national in level, he advocated discussions, negotiations or dialogues, conciliations, arbitrations and adjudication in the last resort.

    RELEVANCE OF NON-VIOLENCE AND SATYAGRAHA OF GANDHI TODAY 2007

  • We knew how in those days, and it was part of the system, to get along in our private times and to fight very hard for what we believed, but also to come to the necessary compromises and conciliations and concessions so that the system worked a and the Congress was able to function as it should in the broad public interest.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2006 2006

  • With this in mind, "there are still various municipalities that cannot perform the basics of monthly bank conciliations," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Their trail of abuses and conciliations to the executive branch of government has been nothing short of treasonous.

    Feeding the Sheep Nation 2006

  • Their trail of abuses and conciliations to the executive branch of government has been nothing short of treasonous.

    Feeding the Sheep Nation 2006

  • According to Mntambo, the CCMA has handled an average of almost 300 conciliations per day since its inception three years ago.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • His absurd raillery was more effective than any tenderly delivered conciliations.

    Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

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