conciliation

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Confabs and conciliations and conferences do not make heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He loves paradoxes because life is full of contradictions, and his paradoxes are often elucidations and conciliations of conflicting ideas, never the cheap and facile paradoxes of a Chesterton.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert

"That your soft words, like all patrician conciliations, have come too late."

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But with Cluseret, as with one's conscience, there were possible conciliations.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

Thus gradually the trade unions and their regulations were recognised by the employers: the latter declared themselves ready to deal conclusively with the representatives of the workmen, and took part in arbitrations, conciliations, etc.

From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Sombart, Werner