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- noun Plural form of
conciliator .
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Examples
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"If it is true," he wrote on June 6th, "as the 'conciliators' are never tired of threatening us, that race hatred will be eternal, why should they make such furious efforts to keep it up at the present moment?
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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Whether we look at George Bush, Barack Obama, Tim Geithner, Eric Holder -- irresponsible cowboys or weak conciliators afraid of resolve -- we see the tragic lack of Zeus energy in our authority figures.
Dylan Ratigan: Joe Paterno and the Search for Zeus Dylan Ratigan 2011
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A new purge is in the process now, but the conciliators and dealmakers of days gone by are already gone.
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It is a catastrophe for the Palestinian people themselves but perhaps the great conciliators, these friends of the Palestinian people who know better than they themselves what is good for them, are not worried about that?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Oh ! The Fools!"* (On a Palestinian Munich) Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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The attack made Limbaugh a near mythic figure to millions, put terror and a stiffened spine into GOP self-doubters and conciliators to oppose any and everything that Obama proposes.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Want to Promote Glenn Beck? Keep Bashing Him 2010
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Various academic groups, business groups, peace advocates and elder statesmen have failed to gain any traction as potential conciliators.
Thailand Runs Out of Room for Compromise Pasuk Phongpaichit And Chris Baker 2010
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The attack made Limbaugh a near mythic figure to millions, put terror and a stiffened spine into GOP self-doubters and conciliators to oppose any and everything that Obama proposes.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Want to Promote Glenn Beck? Keep Bashing Him 2010
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Robinson could not recognize that any great social movement needed a continuum of voices—the militants who would prod a reluctant country to change, and the conciliators who tried to find common ground among hostile factions.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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You can draw a rough and ready divide between prime ministerial types by separating them into warriors and conciliators.
Why Cameron prefers coalition to being alone with his own party 2010
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David Cameron strikes me as belonging among the conciliators.
Why Cameron prefers coalition to being alone with his own party 2010
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