Mr. Gill was part of a nonofficial delegation that recently met with Mr. Sha and heard similar conciliatory remarks.

And they have been accompanied by conspicuous efforts by several senior leaders to distance themselves from conciliatory remarks made last week.

But Mr. Byrd also made conciliatory remarks, strongly suggesting that he would take a softer line toward the endowment in the conference committee.

Tendai Biti, a member of Parliament and an opposition leader, dismissed Mr. Mugabe's conciliatory remarks.

Immediately after the plea was taken in State Superior Court here, Ms. Olson, 54, appeared to reverse the conciliatory remarks she had made before the judge.

The two sides began meeting this afternoon after President Clinton's conciliatory remarks at his news conference about cutting spending in the huge bill.

My liberal Egyptian acquaintances roll their eyes at America's recent diplomatic, conciliatory remarks about working with moderate Islamists in the wake of the Arab Spring.

In a recent broadcast, he even enlisted conciliatory remarks toward the West made by the Iranian President, Mohammad Khatami.

Mr. Kennedy called this highly technical legal clause "a clear contradiction of the President's conciliatory remarks at the signing ceremony."

But before I get my eyes torn out, I want to make one conciliatory remark.