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Conciliation serves as a versatile term in literature, functioning both as a formal mechanism for resolving disputes and as a personal gesture of goodwill. In some works, it frames diplomatic negotiations and political maneuvers—ranging from international treaties and labor policies ([1], [2], [3]) to the crafting of governmental bills ([4])—while in others it takes on a subtler, interpersonal tone, as when characters employ kind, conciliatory language to ease tensions or express compromise ([5], [6], [7]). The term is equally at home in depictions of ancient narratives and religious texts, where it underlines the strategic and sometimes sacred aspect of reconciling differences ([8], [9], [10]), as well as in modern writings that juxtapose it with themes of force and coercion ([11]). Thus, the word "conciliation" encapsulates an expansive range of ideas from measured diplomacy to gentle persuasion.
  1. In 1906 the charter of trade unions; in 1907, the conciliation and settlement of South Africa; in 1908, the [191] establishment of old-age pensions.
    — from Liberalism and the Social Problem by Winston Churchill
  2. (GB 18) VIII 359 *TC-20 Treaty of Arbitration and Conciliation between Germany and Luxembourg, signed at Geneva, 11 September 1929.
    — from Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Vol. I) by United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
  3. This is the first movement of a national character in America, taken with the intention of the establishment of labor conciliation….”
    — from The Coming of Coal by Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère
  4. His Conciliation Bill, now in the hands of the ministry, was carried without difficulty, and all Lord North's Conciliation Bill.
    — from A History of England, Period III. Constitutional Monarchy by J. Franck (James Franck) Bright
  5. "Really," she said in a tone of conciliation, "I like you too well to wish to quarrel with you.
    — from Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  6. “I really don't know what to think about you,” she began, in a feeble, perverse attempt at conciliation.
    — from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. "I didn't mean that," he said, with an awkward effort at conciliation; "but you were wrong to provoke me."
    — from Joshua Marvel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
  8. If desirous of prosperity, thou shouldst adopt all arts—humility, oath, conciliation.
    — from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
  9. Strive thou by all means, O Bharata, to liberate Duryodhana by the arts of conciliation.
    — from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
  10. O king, who, unless cursed by the gods, would seek, to effect that by means of war which can be effected by conciliation?
    — from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
  11. His aim is to win followers, by clemency and conciliation, instead of compelling them by intimidation and cruelty.
    — from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 400, February, 1849 by Various

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