Sentence examples for conciliate over from inspiring English sources

The AHRC as an independent statutory body - one of 110 such NHRIs throughout the world-also plays a vital role monitoring Australia's compliance with our international human rights obligations and working with the government, business and community to conciliate over 20,000 inquiries and formal complaints about abuses.

A commissioning board for mental health services was found to serve not so much a decision-making function as being a place of ritual 'where participants tell narratives about who they are collectively, sustain culture, organize shared emotions, and conciliate over social relations in conflicts … to maintain organizational cohesion above all' [ 31].

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, taking the wrong message from Munich 1938, refused to meet with the Japanese prime minister to conciliate U.S.-Japanese differences over Japan's empire building in East Asia and retaliatory American attempts to strangle the Japanese military and economy with an oil embargo (the United States was then the world's largest producer of oil).

I think the time this has taken has damaged people's trust in the church hierarchy – we've sensed a bending over backwards to conciliate the opponents of female bishops.

If there is going to be any recrimination after [his death] it will be from poor black folk who haven't benefited who say he bent over backwards to conciliate white South Africans.

Having successfully confronted and then conciliated the US over Syria, a resurgent Russia cannot see its protégé go down to defeat.

WASHINGTON, June 5 — Efforts were under way here today to conciliate an angry dispute between the Democratic National Chairman, Lawrence F. O'Brien, and Sargent Shrivel over the terms of a bid to Mr. Shriver to head a Democratic Congressional cam paign.

Broached in 1692, this matter was brought up again in 1698, when the Holy Roman emperor Leopold I and his ministers, faced with the prospect of a fight over the succession to the Spanish throne, were eager to conciliate Brandenburg.

He promised in the 1860 election to leave slavery alone in the South, and even after the Civil War began, he tried again and again to conciliate Southerners, believing that unionist sympathies among the Confederates would eventually prevail over slaveholder extremism.

After the success of negotiations that had done so much to conciliate the West during the reign of Justin I, Justinian attempted to win over the moderate non-Chalcedonians, separating them from the extremists.

The city "declines to conciliate".