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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a conciliation" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used when referring to the act of bringing about agreement or harmony, but "conciliation" is typically used without the article "a."
Example: "The parties engaged in a conciliation to resolve their differences."
Alternatives: "a settlement" or "an agreement".
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"We tried to do a conciliation, but the city refused to participate," Mr. Charney said.
The dispute now goes to a conciliation panel, and, if that fails, to arbitration in London.
A truce that she declared in 1910 was broken when the government blocked a "conciliation" bill on woman suffrage.
Mr. LaPierre struck a defiant tone on Friday, making clear that his group was not eager to reach a conciliation.
"We are in a conciliation process," was the only comment the communications director at Planeta México made for this story.
That could be early next year or in a conciliation meeting with the council, which could happen sooner, he said.
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He had long had a woolly vision of a "national conciliation" in the Netherlands, that made him amenable to a rapprochement with conservative and Orangist circles.
In November 1910 Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith let a proposed Conciliation Bill giving a million women the vote run out of time.
She did interviews with NBC and Fox News before Senator John McCain had a chance to take a customary conciliation lap on TV.
In a first step to a potential conciliation, we proposed the unified model of LR asymmetry, which postulates that cilia may have a role in amplifying LR information in some species, downstream of highly conserved cytoskeletal events that initiate asymmetry.
A little populism here and a little conciliation there is no game-changer.
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