Sentence examples for try to conciliate from inspiring English sources

Against such subversion, the Ottomans could only try to conciliate their subjects where possible and repress them when conciliation was rejected, taking advantage at every opportunity of each rivalry that arose between the Habsburgs and Russians for predominance in the Balkan provinces of the empire.

After the Quebec conference in September 1944, he flew to Moscow to try to conciliate the Russians and the Poles and to get an agreed division of spheres of influence in the Balkans that would protect as much of them as possible from Communism.

In the following months, the Japanese advanced in southeast Asia, and the British Cabinet sent a mission led by Sir Stafford Cripps to try to conciliate the Indians and cause them to fully back the war.

"I'm trying to conciliate the modern view with the old technique," he said.

The brothers finally suppressed the Sikh revolt and tried to conciliate the Rajputs, the Marathas, and the Jats.

Earle's wit, learning, and tolerance were widely praised, and, though a Royalist Anglican, he tried to conciliate Nonconformists.

Berlin became a member of the rabbinate late in life (1787), and in 1793 he was elected rabbi of Breslau, in which post he tried to conciliate the various opposing factions in the local Jewish community.

Critics say the legal reform will create a generation of "disposable workers", but yesterday ministers tried to conciliate growing opposition, one saying no worker could be laid off without justification.

The Church of England bishops have been caught between trying to conciliate noisy conservatives in the church and wanting to be nice to the gays, because (to episcopal surprise and alarm) gay people have ceased to lurk in the shadows and have entered mainstream society, demanding to be treated as ordinary human beings.

The historian Macaulay wrote that "All Northamptonshire crowded to kiss the royal hand in that fine gallery which had been embellished by the pencil of Vandyke [sic] and made classical by the muse of Waller; and the Earl tried to conciliate his neighbors by feasting them at eight tables blazing with plate".

At the same time, Asad tried to conciliate the local population, hoping to prevent them from supporting the Turgesh.