Sentence examples for conciliatory direction from inspiring English sources

These things just get announced: 'George Washington got a British spy once by doing this, so thank goodness we've got recent precedents.' " With the specter of critical Senate hearings led by Mr. Leahy looming, Mr. Ashcroft seemed to be moving in a conciliatory direction this week.

Erdoğan has been making conciliatory moves in other directions, too.

No matter how many conciliatory steps Democrats take in their direction, Republicans just keep backing away.

While Moscow has also opposed the holding of presidential elections in Ukraine on 25 May – a ballot strongly supported by the west – Putin sounded more conciliatory, saying that the poll could be a step in the right direction.

Senator Phil Gramm, of Texas, who had led the Republicans' campaign to retake the Senate in 1994, offered a non-conciliatory couplet after that election: "I'm willing to go halfway," he said, "but only in the right direction".

More conciliatory than contrite, Mr. Obama used that phrase, "take responsibility," six times but rejected the suggestion that his policies were moving the country in the wrong direction.

The setting looked conciliatory.

Some were more conciliatory.

Her voice is conciliatory.

Publicly, the remarks are conciliatory.

– "cheerful, friendly, conciliatory" aura.