1.   A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and Holy Trinity would live to fight another day.

2.   American intelligence flights over Cuba had been stopped as a conciliatory gesture.

3.   As a conciliatory gesture, the restaurant was built like a large shack, so as not to be too obtrusive.

4.   But the conciliatory gesture itself was significant after the partisan exchanges this summer over policy on asylum and crime.

5.   Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture, agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.

6.   The government made several conciliatory gestures to the protestors.

7.   Pressure on the Shiite community was to continue, despite well-publicized conciliatory gestures.

8.   The housekeeper held up her hands in a conciliatory gesture and started saying something about a mistake.

9.   And both countries are prisoners of oratory that has left them unable to make any conciliatory gesture toward the other.