• Smith also carried a box containing an olive branch as an emblem of peace.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Indeed, Mallya has extended an olive branch to employees this week asking for their support in getting the company operational once more.

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  • Mr Laws also appeared to offer an olive branch to teachers, saying they did one of the most important jobs in the country.

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  • Invited to speak before the House Republicans at their retreat in Baltimore, on January 29th, he seemed to extend an olive branch to Ryan.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Air France-KLM and Alitalia may not be the best of friends, following the Franco-Dutch carrier's tortuous failed attempt to acquire its near-bankrupt Italian rival earlier this year, but on Tuesday Silvio Berlusconi extended an olive branch to keep the carriers on good terms.

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  • Absentee ownership or running the franchise out of a different city might work for certain franchises and leagues, but the Dodgers need a leader who will live within the community and will immediately extend an olive branch to a rightfully disgruntled and ambivalent audience.

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  • Holder held out an olive branch in his testimony before a Senate committee on Tuesday, volunteering to compromise on the House committee's request for documents the DOJ has so far declined to hand over because it does not want to release details on its internal discussions.

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  • It was discouraging to read Monday's lead article in Politico in which correspondent Glenn Thrush, citing Democrats in the White House and on the Hill, reported that Obama in his State of the Union will offer the GOP not an olive branch but a cattle prod.

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  • There was an olive branch of sorts from the former AM Glyn Davies, now PPS to Cheryl Gillan, who wrote on his blog that Mr Davies "is beginning to make his mark on Wales" and that his call for a Welsh Parliament showed that he was "proving to be an astute and interesting leader".

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