Sentence examples for not conciliation from inspiring English sources

His political career has been built on disruption, not conciliation.

In part, lawmakers said, the narrow balance of power and the way it came about heightened partisan tensions, not conciliation.

Indeed, documents declassified in the late 1980s showed that both Truman and Eisenhower saw early on the potential for a Sino-Soviet split and that maximum pressure on Peking, not conciliation, was the way to bring it on.

In an interview in his office off Harvard Yard, Mr. Summers defended his tenure and suggested that the criticism reflected the need to adjust to a new style, one of questioning, not conciliation.

By bringing the weight of his office and intellect and charm to bear on both sides of the divide, he has opened the dialogue of cooperation, if not conciliation.

Politics is mostly the art of fighting over a muddled middle ground, but this is the way the world gets well and truly changed: Not through conciliation, but through conquest.

Still, any honest account of Lincoln's life and its meaning must turn honestly not around conciliation and its joys, but around confrontation and its horrors, even when the confrontation is necessary and the horrors can be seen as honors.

It's why the enmity among ideological disputants can escalate even as their political differences narrow (and it's why the Administration's moves toward the right are experienced by Republicans not as conciliation but as coöptation: they see not an outstretched hand but the covetous pseudopod of an amoeba).

"Don't confuse conciliation with weakness," he said, explaining his style.

In the spirit of conciliation, not wanting to offend either party, I started speaking English.

Oshinsky disputes this, stating that "Eisenhower was known as a harmonizer, a man who could get diverse factions to work toward a common goal ... Leadership, he explained, meant patience and conciliation, not 'hitting people over the head'".