Sentence examples for conciliatory power from inspiring English sources

His films dramatize confrontations with those dichotomies and with others — documentary and fiction, nature and artifice, classicism and modernism, art history and immediate experience, performance and presence — and they embody a resolution, by means of the transcendent, redemptive, conciliatory power of romantic love, which fuses the accidental events of life, and of art, into destiny.

Commentators who defend the conciliatory power of material reparations frequently interpret such payments as acknowledgements of responsibility, expressions of respect for the moral status of the victims, acts of remorse or caring, evidence of increased trustworthiness or a recommitment to the norms of justice (Thompson 2002, Brooks 2004, Gray 2010, Walker 2010).

For all its oppressiveness and self-interest, the junta has wanted to appear conciliatory since seizing power eight months ago.

When a less conciliatory faction gained power in Warsaw and the Russian offer of surrender was refused, Paskevich ordered his forces to launch an assault against Warsaw's western defences.

After years of describing the country's civil war in black and white, as an international terrorist conspiracy, Syrian officials in recent days appear to be trying to sound more conciliatory, as global powers try to arrange peace talks in Geneva to end the bloody stalemate, and as international weapons inspectors began on Sunday to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal.

Conservative critics said the United States should not take North Korea off the terrorism list until it gave up all its nuclear weapons, and argued that the pact was far too conciliatory toward a nuclear power with alleged ties to international terrorism.

Before the speech, Lebanese media outlets close to the Syrian government reported, citing unnamed sources, that Mr. Assad would be much more conciliatory, offering to share some power with the armed opposition.

"I'm going to do everything in my power to be conciliatory.

The old guard will also fear a settling of scores if their former foes and victims take power, despite Aung San Suu Kyi's conciliatory words and non-violent approach.

I asked a friend, long resident in Turkey, if he thought that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might be more conciliatory towards his enemies and more moderate in his pursuit of power after the parliamentary election.

But on Tuesday, Rummenigge balanced his demands for more power-sharing with some conciliatory words for Blatter, who has announced that he will present a series of changes in late October.