conciliatory attitude
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconciliatoryandattitude
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conciliatory
adjective
uk/kənˈsɪl.i.ə.tər.i/us/kənˈsɪl.i.ə.tɔːr.i/
showing willingness to end a disagreement, or trying to make someone ...
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attitude
noun
uk/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofconciliatoryandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Concessions won by the opposition as regards the preparatory arrangements account for thisconciliatoryattitude.
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If he adopts a moreconciliatoryattitude, there will be more co-operation and much more effective local government.
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If they do that, it will not be asking for anyconciliatoryattitudefrom anybody else.
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It shows that he has again resumed theconciliatoryattitudewhich he showed earlier, when we were considering rabbits skins in slippers.
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There is unquestionably a softer line and a moreconciliatoryattitude.
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I was hoping that theconciliatoryattitudeof the last two or three amendments might have carried on for just a little longer.
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What we want to do is to feel that the men are in the sameconciliatoryattitudeas we ourselves are.
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Areas in which there is disagreement should be considered with a moreconciliatoryattitudethan is shown at present.
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He also, in the course of his remarks, expressed the hope that those of us who are directors of railway companies, would adopt, aconciliatoryattitudetowards the men.
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This partly indicates aconciliatoryattitude.
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Zhao appears to have aconciliatoryattitudetowards the students demands, deeming the protests to be mostly patriotic.
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That, along with hisconciliatoryattitudetoward rival unions, gave rise to widespread opposition to his administration at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Both approaches are concerned with promoting and securing the kinds of conciliatory attitudes that might enable people who disagree at some fundamental level to compromise on contentious political issues.
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