Mr Obama and Congress may still be able to mend entitlements.
Literacy rates improve hugely, fishermen are able to mend their nets, women to weave clothing.
After weeks of negotiations and last-minute tribulations, Mr. Cuomo was able to mend rifts created by some of his centrist policies and ease the concerns of Working Families, a small but influential group of labor unions and liberal activists.
Regardless of how the Pirros fare in the trial, and whether Ms. Pirro's political career can emerged unscathed, one poignant question is whether the two brothers will ever be able to mend their relationship.
Kramer says he has requested a meeting with Wigglesworth, who is back in the building conducting Janáček's Jenůfa, but "I don't get the sense that I'm the person who is going to be able to mend that rift.
How will officials at Boston College and Syracuse deal with being sideswiped by the A.C.C.? And, as Duke's basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, suggested, will the A.C.C. be able to mend fences after what has been one of the nastiest fights in college sports history?
The result, reported in this month's Nature Biotechnology, suggests that researchers may be able to mend flawed genes with surgical precision.
Luckily, through therapy, the family was able to mend and start moving in the right direction.
Due to Haruto's intervention, Yuzuki is able to mend her relationship with her step-family, prompting her to return to Tokyo.
So far, there are few signs that the system of money-fueled party elections we now have is able to mend itself.
Garth, 41, and Doherty, 42, weren't always said to be the best of friends, but in a 2012 interview with The Huffington Post, Doherty explained how she was able to mend fences with her onetime rival.
