adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conciliatory gesture (= something you do to stop someone from arguing with you )
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The government made several conciliatory gestures to the protestors.
conciliatory (= showing that you do not want to be involved in an argument with someone )
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She used a more conciliatory tone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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By mid 1972 Soviet spokesmen adopted a more conciliatory tone.
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Such contact, the first for five years, could mark a more conciliatory approach by the isolated rulers.
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Other lenders will be more conciliatory , offering to match any loan from a rival.
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The letter was far more conciliatory than that which had been rejected in 1921.
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After losing the battle for Kabul, Hekmatyar adopted a more conciliatory attitude towards the Peshawar peace plan.
■ NOUN
approach
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Such contact, the first for five years, could mark a more conciliatory approach by the isolated rulers.
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The government appears to be taking a conciliatory approach to the indigenous unrest.
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And if a conciliatory approach fails to work, the job must still be done.
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Clinton was praised on all sides for his warm manner and conciliatory approach .
gesture
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But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs.
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A conciliatory gesture , some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.
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As a conciliatory gesture , the restaurant was built like a large shack, so as not to be too obtrusive.
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Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture , agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.
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Pressure on the Shiite community was to continue, despite well-publicized conciliatory gestures .
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In 1955, the year of the Geneva summit conference, there were conciliatory gestures towards nuclear disarmament on both sides.
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But the conciliatory gesture itself was significant after the partisan exchanges this summer over policy on asylum and crime.
tone
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By mid 1972 Soviet spokesmen adopted a more conciliatory tone .
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I said in a conciliatory tone .
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A conciliatory tone should he adopted for a letter of adjustment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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American intelligence flights over Cuba had been stopped as a conciliatory gesture.
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The tone of my letter had been friendly and conciliatory , so I was disappointed by the cold reply I received.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a conciliatory gesture, the restaurant was built like a large shack, so as not to be too obtrusive.
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But why did he always seek the conciliatory path?
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It could not otherwise have achieved its conciliatory aim.
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Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture, agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.
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She used her conciliatory skills to get along with her remote grandfather, who provided so little company for her grandmother.
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The extension of the informal conciliatory system will not satisfy the demand for an investigative system.