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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a friendly move" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or decision that is intended to be kind or supportive towards someone else.
Example: "Offering to help her with the project was a friendly move that strengthened their collaboration."
Alternatives: "a kind gesture" or "a nice action".
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Mr. Mukhtarov warned that removing the statue by force would not be interpreted as a friendly move, and he wondered at all the fuss in Mexico.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, said in remarks reported by the Mehr News Agency "if any country takes such a decision it will not be regarded by Iran as a friendly move".
But Capitalia would be far easier to bed down, which is why insiders believe that in a matter of days, UniCredit might well make a friendly move on its Italian neighbour.It would be a takeover, not a merger.
The markets interpreted the Fed action as a "friendly" move likely to prevent upward pressure on short-term interest rates as corporations prepare to make their mid-June tax payments, but analysts said they did not believe the Fed was intending to signal any basic shift in monetary policy.
In a friendly move that could erase some of the public hatred for Ticketmaster's service fees, Live Nation's VP of Social Media Gretchen Fox tells me it'd be happy to integrate Ticketfly's listings and send them traffic if the competitor provided its concert feed.
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It's a surprisingly friendly move by Microsoft to bring this to market, however, and I think even the most die-hard open-source fan will agree that getting more people to use Raspberry Pi in embedded projects is a noble goal – whatever the OS.
And in a player-friendly move, he offered a laissez-faire approach to controlling players.
In 2015, dividends accounted for the highest proportion of corporate earnings that they have since 2009, while buybacks – another "shareholder friendly" move – are up 27% in the last year alone.
That is "a fan-friendly move," according to Jon Greenberg, executive editor of Team Marketing Report.
According to the latest proxy statement, Stanley Black & Decker ended its practice of staggered terms for directors, a shareholder-friendly move that makes directors less entrenched.
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