Sentence examples for cordial talks from inspiring English sources

"We always had cordial talks, we just had a disagreement on where he should be placed," Hendricks said.

Mr Abe also had cordial talks with Mr Hu, who at last year's APEC had refused to speak to Mr Abe's predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, over his visits to the Yasukuni war shrine.

On Tuesday, he had a private meeting with Pope Francis and other top church officials where the two leaders held "cordial" talks, the Vatican said, adding that the two men shared "common spiritual values".

After cordial talks and meetings with civilian space scientists and engineers, however, Mr. Griffin cut his visit short when the military refused to let him visit the human spaceflight training facilities at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.

News also emerged from Pyongyang over the weekend that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, who did not attend the Philharmonic's concert, paid a rare visit to the Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang on Saturday for "cordial talks" — a move that suggested that Mr. Kim was striking a delicate diplomatic balance between the big powers.

The rebel leader disclosed few details of his "cordial talks" with the military leaders who took control of the government last month after Mr. Speight and others stormed Parliament, took the hostages and demanded a new constitution that would withhold power from Fiji's ethnic Indian minority.

The brief report by KCNA on Friday says the two had "a cordial talk", and Kim invited Rodman back again "any time".

The Korean Central News Agency announced Friday that Rodman and Kim had "a cordial talk" and watched a basketball game together, and that the communist leader had hosted a dinner for Rodman.

News services in Pyongyang reported that the Korean Central News Agency announced Friday that Rodman and Kim had "a cordial talk" and watched a basketball game together, and that the communist leader had hosted a dinner for Rodman.

The two men made cordial small talk at first.

I don't need to engage in cordial small talk with strangers.