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After a hot-headed campaign, he has turned conciliator and statesman, holding talks with opposition leaders.
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Mr Khatami's predecessor, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, has positioned himself between the factions, as conciliator.
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He has named as his (powerless) vice-president Isaias Rodriguez, an assembly member known as a conciliator.
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Seward had come to see himself as the chief conciliator between the rebellious Southern states and punitive Northerners.
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If the parliament is to adopt the unfamiliar habit of confrontation, how does Mrs Fontaine, conciliator-general, fit in?
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His appeal for independents in 2008 was more as conciliator and problem solver.
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After all, Mr Kerry proclaims himself to be a multilateralist determined to rebuild alliances and Mr Blair is a passionate conciliator.
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But Mr Zuma is also a skilled conciliator, credited with ending the political violence in KwaZulu-Natal and helping to bring peace to Burundi.
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In the Labour Party he has been regarded as a loyal colleague, a conciliator who avoids factions, and a man whose humour and determination make him widely popular.
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But he owes it too to his own promise to be a conciliator, a man who will pull together the diverse threads of American society into a more coherent, united whole.
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But Mr Scanlon was also a conciliator.
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Ned Temko, former editor of the Jewish Chronicle, told the Sunday programme that Lord Sacks would be a "difficult act to follow" but he said Rabbi Mirvis's track record as a "conciliator" might help him to bridge divisions within the Jewish community.
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