'conciliation' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means bringing two sides together to settle a dispute through mediation and compromise. For example, "The judge suggested a conciliation meeting between the two warring parties to bring about a peaceful resolution."
Her words, calling for forbearance and conciliation and the loosening of the knots of history, striving to create a more harmonious relationship "close as good neighbours should always be", led all the Irish papers.
Her note of conciliation helped lift prices of Argentine bonds.
Some hope Mr Zenawi, in a gesture of conciliation, will free some of his opponents from jail before then.
So may the Dalai Lama's recent admission that his efforts at conciliation have failed.
In their tactics they are as likely to try killing the DPJ through conciliation as much as confrontation.As for the new government's liberalising bent, it is too soon to write Mr Fukuda off.
There the approach to discipline is based around prevention and conciliation, rather than punishment and protection.
His lawyers said that he was too ill to attend.In an act of conciliation towards both China and the former rulers of Taiwan, the Kuomintang, the new president of Taiwan chose a member of the KMT as his prime minister.
But when Arabs kill Arabs and Shiites kill Shiites and Sunnis kill all in a spasm of violence that is blind and furious and has roots in hatreds born long before America was even a republic, to place the blame on the one player, the one country, the one military that has done more than any other to try to separate the combatants and bring conciliation is simply perverse.
It seems that no international gathering, be it to discuss financial reform or climate change, is complete without Lula, a former metal worker and trade-union leader whose bonhomie and instinct for conciliation between political opposites make him friends everywhere.
And just as Lebanon's own troubles reflected wider tensions in the Middle East, the fractious country's sudden mood of conciliation is sending positive ripples through the region.
A full session of the parliament is expected to approve the amendments on December 13th, after which there will be a round of wrangling (so-called "conciliation") between the council, the parliament and the European Commission.A number of interested parties, including Britain's Takeover Panel, are fighting a rearguard action to persuade Euro-MPs to vote the amendments down.
