"It would be nice to think there might be more conciliation and moderation and negotiation, and less posturing and drama and fewer political showdowns," Liza Mundy, a fellow at the New America Foundation who specializes in gender issues, told me.
But Mr. Karzai came out of what Mr. Wilder calls a "deal-making culture," a tradition of tribal politics that aims more for conciliation than confrontation.
Ali tried apologizing through the news media a few months ago, but Frazier demanded a more personal conciliation, prompting Ali to retract the apology.
He was a Vernunftrepublikaner a believer in the republic on pragmatic grounds rather than from deep conviction as well as an instinctive consensus-builder ("I incline by nature much more to conciliation than to conflict").
With only a lone Lib Dem, Sir Malcolm Bruce, daring to raise his voice – and then more in conciliation than threat – Gove easily quick-stepped his way through what might have been a tricky hour.
Especially on this issue, I'm more interested in conciliation than in further fighting.
Despite his post-election message to the nation promising conciliation and more democracy, Mr Fujimori today looks a lonely man.
The spirit of national conciliation was more than the rhetorical pixie dust of Obama's 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention, in Boston, which had brought him to delirious national attention.
For the next three years the Heath administration zig-zagged, between rightwing and more centrist policies, between conciliation and confrontation, until, with the phrase "U-turn" for the first time in common political usage, it narrowly lost power at the February 1974 general election.
After several more attempts at French conciliation failed, in September 1664 Marguerite Louise left her apartment in Palazzo Pitti, refusing to return; therefore, Cosimo moved her into Villa di Lappeggi.
