Sentence examples for make a conciliatory gesture from inspiring English sources

The announcement is a possible sign that their testimony wasn't winning anyone over, and so Bush felt he had to make a conciliatory gesture.

Rio Ferdinand is prepared to shake Ashley Cole's hand at Stamford Bridge on Sunday and that of John Terry in future as the Manchester United player seeks to make a conciliatory gesture amid the racism rows shaking the game.

Bush made a conciliatory gesture toward his rival in an interview with NBC News.

He made a conciliatory gesture this month in releasing several Ogoni prisoners.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali made a conciliatory gesture by proposing a temporary nonpolitical cabinet and new elections.

Kibaki made a conciliatory gesture of his own by publicly agreeing to opposition demands of creating a prime ministerial position.

The council, for its part, made a conciliatory gesture of its own, announcing that it would release more than 1,900 prisoners.

President Vladimir V. Putin made a conciliatory gesture to the Vatican yesterday, calling for closer dialogue as a means of dealing with issues like terrorism.

This week, by contrast, the Sadrist movement reacted quite mildly to the increasingly widespread arrests and also made a conciliatory gesture to Mr Maliki's government: several leading Sadrist politicians declared they would end a two-month boycott of parliament.

His reports had aroused intense local hostility and finally death threats from the devotees of the goddess Kali, who now declared that unless Seepersad made a conciliatory gesture, he would become poisoned and die.

POLICY REVERSAL -- The three-week-old interim government made a conciliatory gesture to one group of insurgents by lifting the American ban on the newspaper of a radical Shiite cleric.