The revelation in early 2015 that the singer had settled out of court with singer Tom Petty over melodic similarities between "Stay with Me" and Petty's 1989 single "I Won't Back Down" was tempered by a statement from the rocker expressing goodwill toward Smith and praising how quickly the situation was corrected.
"It will be difficult to improve the strained China-Japan relations if the Japanese government continues to adopt the two-faced approach of expressing goodwill on the one hand and allowing right-wing forces to kidnap the government and public opinion on the other hand," it said.
"I want to express my goodwill tonight to UNHCR for appointing me their Goodwill Ambassador 10 years ago and for trusting me with the job," Jolie said.
The "toast" is an age-old, time-honored tradition, where we raise a glass to pay tribute to — and express our goodwill towards — friends, loved ones, and sometimes even our fellow man.
Show goodwill and interest in children.
On political interference to encourage Lloyds to sell branches to Co-op "The committee has seen no evidence....that the goodwill expressed by the Government amounted to pressure".
"The hostility towards him is usually more slyly expressed than the goodwill," wrote Cusack's co-author, Tom Humphries, in the Irish Times.
A majority usually express an unfavourable opinion of Mr Romney an unprecedented deficit of goodwill for a challenger this close to election day.The election, in other words, is a race between limping candidates.
He refused a knighthood in 1946 but expressed gratitude for British goodwill and cooperation.
"May I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to the thousands of people who have supported me with messages of goodwill in the recent months and particularly in recent days.
In a recorded message on the Nation of Islam website, Mr Farrakhan says "words are not adequate to express my deep sense of personal gratitude" to people of various religions who sent flowers and goodwill cards after his "horrific operation".
