Smith also carried a box containing an olive branch as an emblem of peace.
But Lim's appointment may be an olive branch to Cardinal Sin and ex-president Aquino.
Emboldened by the election result, it is unlikely to send an olive branch to its chastened opponents.
Neither entity has seemed willing to extend an olive branch and come up with any compromise -- until recently.
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It is not an olive branch for bipartisan deal-making with the House GOP.
The Palestinian leader is once again holding an olive branch and a gun.
But others are keen to extend an olive branch to the nuclear industry.
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It was an olive branch to Republicans, but he didn't explain what he's going to do with the nuclear waste.
Indeed, Mallya has extended an olive branch to employees this week asking for their support in getting the company operational once more.
The president also will offer an olive branch to the evangelical Christian base when Congressional leaders raise the same-sex marriage ban again.
We are extending an olive branch to the fringes of the insurgency.
Mr Laws also appeared to offer an olive branch to teachers, saying they did one of the most important jobs in the country.
Invited to speak before the House Republicans at their retreat in Baltimore, on January 29th, he seemed to extend an olive branch to Ryan.
Mr. Sharif also offered an olive branch to neighboring Afghanistan, whose President Hamid Karzai has frequently accused Pakistan of sponsoring the Taliban insurgency in his country.
Sonn apparently offered an olive branch to Cronje, who has been banned for life from playing cricket after admitting that he accepted bribes to fix matches.
One of Gowda's first actions as PM was to offer an olive branch to India's insurgency-torn northeastern states, which symbolize another of the nation's many festering divides.
He said Palestinians would now have to prove that they were committed to peace, and that if they did, Israel would offer an olive branch in return.
As Israel, Lebanon and Turkey deal with conflicting claims over the regional find and maritime, Cyprus appears content to extend an olive branch to all in the region.
Outside Wirathu's office at the New Ma Soe Yein monastery hangs a large poster of him gazing heavenward next to a dove with an olive branch in its beak.
It was unclear whether they would appeal the governor's determination over the next 10 days or fight the appointment in court, and the mayor offered an olive branch Friday.
In comments that will be welcomed by Washington, Abe held out an olive branch to South Korea, a key U.S. ally that shares Japan's concern over North Korea's provocations.
It was an olive branch to his by-then estranged friend and a plea for him to return to the yellow house, where they had once depicted this middle-aged proprietress of a local cafe.
When the search engine Ask.com launched a privacy protection program it calls AskEraser last December, it intended to hold out an olive branch to activists that oppose how search engines track people's private information.
President Bush and congressional lawmakers have vowed to come up with a bipartisan plan to help jumpstart the economy, and in press conferences throughout the week, they have extended an olive branch in the name of providing a fast-acting, short-term fix.
The new South Korean government has separated humanitarian aid from nuclear weapons negotiations, and President Park Geun-hye has patiently held out an olive branch in the form of her "trustpolitik" policy, which promises step-by-step efforts to stabilize inter-Korean relations.
In June he appeared at a Democratic governors' meeting in Chicago accompanied by a presidential-looking seal an eagle clutching an olive branch in one claw and arrows in the other and emblazoned with the slogan Vero Possimus (Yes we can).
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He has consistently refused to negotiate with the rebels, ignoring an olive branch offered in August by Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen president, and publicly slapping down Boris Nemtsov, a leading liberal politician, who had called for an end to the fighting.
And regardless of what one thinks of Mr. Arafat from a moral standpoint -- is he simply a terrorist, or does he come, as he famously told the United Nations in 1974, "bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun"?
He has consistently refused to negotiate with the rebels, ignoring an olive branch offered in June by Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen president, and publicly slapping down Boris Nemtsov, a leading liberal politician, who had called for an end to the fighting.
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