conciliate

• “He has deliberately said, that, if we cannot "conciliate" the Rebels, and "persuade" them to come back into the Union, we should allow them to depart in peace.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864

• “The establishment of these reforms, the petitioners of the Regulation concluded, would "conciliate" their minds to "every just measure of government, and would make the laws what the Constitution ever designed they should be, their protection and not their bane.”

  Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground

• “_patani [vs] a_ would be the verbal root for "conciliate"; _mpatana [vs] i_ is”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"

• “conciliate" the South, and that that section could be induced to "come back" into the Union, provided nothing should be done to hurt its feelings or injure its interests!”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

• “And the leaders would sit in Assemblies and Houses and Senates and they would discuss, conciliate, find the center and thus exert sensible leadership.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Samuelson: Democracy With No Center Is a Zero

• “This alone might not be cause enough for blacks en masse to repeatedly give their firm backing to the Democrats, especially when the Democrats compromise, conciliate, and flat out fumble the ball when it comes to caving to the GOP in fighting for increased funding and initiatives that help the urban poor.”

  The Huffington Post: Earl Ofari Hutchinson: The GOP's Phony "Plantationism" Charge Against Democrats

• “Instead of antagonizing the unions, which had been their previous policy, the socialists proceeded to conciliate the unions.”

  THE CLASS STRUGGLE

• “Gigot: You wrote this week that the engagement of the United States, not just in this administration but across other administrations, actually is "poisonous"--that was your word--to Khamenei, because he finds that attempt for the U.S. to conciliate a threat to Islamic values, and it may undermine his regime.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Inevitable Mr. Romney

• “The mantra from the media is move right, conciliate, bridge build.”

  The Huffington Post: Laura Flanders: The F Word: Lessons from Elizabeth Warren

• “Israel must maintain its strength in the face of all enemies that rise up against it, but at the same time it must stretch out its hand in peace to all those who are willing to conciliate with it.”

  Voice of America: Egypt Unrest Concerns Israel

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