Sentence examples for conciliate rather than from inspiring English sources

He tried at first to conciliate rather than confront Mr. Arafat.

In the area of many fundamental matters for example, at home, the difficult problem of school integration, and, abroad, the question of relaxing tensions in the Far East and the Near East the approach of both these men is to conciliate rather than coerce, to clarify rather than confuse, to unify rather than disrupt.

The Republicans blocked him at every turn (yes, and he kept trying to conciliate rather than fight).

Even Gergen's excessively generous treatment of Ronald Reagan owes less to political loyalty than to an appreciation of Reagan's demeanor and attitude, including his willingness to conciliate those Washington elites rather than go to war with them as Nixon and, later, Clinton did.

"We're hoping to conciliate some of the cases rather than go to trial so we can get into the negotiation phase and get the right policies in place.

Higher R ST estimates do not conciliate with a recent founding event that would otherwise imply that genetic drift rather than mutation would be the primary evolutionary force shaping genetic divergence between forms [ 35].

Rather than going stiff".

Cubs rather than Lions.

Coffee rather than tea.

Rather than a hotel?

Shook rather than rolled.