conciliatory approach/tone/gesture etc• By mid 1972 Sovietspokesmenadopted a more conciliatory tone.• I said in a conciliatory tone.• Pressure on the Shiitecommunity was to continue, despite well-publicized conciliatory gestures.• Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture, agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.• But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs.• A conciliatory gesture, some argued, would appease the cardinal and HolyTrinity would live to fight another day.• As a conciliatory gesture, the restaurant was built like a large shack, so as not to be too obtrusive.• The government appears to be taking a conciliatory approach to the indigenousunrest.