Word Finder - reconcile

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To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

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to reconcile people who have quarrelled

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To make things compatible or consistent.

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to reconcile differences

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To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

Dollinger the pope attempted to reconcile, but failed.

How, in God's name will I ever reconcile this?

There were many things about him she couldn't reconcile.

She stopped a safe distance from him, unable to reconcile the man on the phone with the man before her.

But it is quite clear that Vitellius was concerned to reconcile the Jews to the authority of Rome.

But in Lent his celebrated sermons upon Amos were delivered in the duomo, and again he urged the necessity of reforming the church, striving by ingenious arguments to reconcile rebellion against Alexander with unalterable fidelity to the Holy See.

Is it so difficult to reconcile the competing demands of society and nature?

They strive to reconcile the irreconcilable, don't they?

Until we can rise above emotion into the thinking of God, we will never be able to reconcile these apparently irreconcilable views.

He could not reconcile the charming impression he had of Natasha, whom he had known from a child, with this new conception of her baseness, folly, and cruelty.

Instead, he ducked the issue and sought to reconcile the irreconcilable.

How do we reconcile these strange contradictions implicit in the behavior of the viruses?

Her eyes slid to Dustin as she tried to reconcile the executioner with the man who liked presents.

She'd been trying to reconcile his connection to the PMF since discovering the link between him and Brady earlier that day.

The publication of fresh chronological material in 1906 and 1907 placed a new complexion on the problems at issue, and enabled us to correct several preconceptions, and to reconcile or explain the apparently conflicting data.

In 1279 Pope Nicholas sent his nephew, the friar preacher Latino Frangipani Malabranca, whom he had created cardinal bishop of Ostia the same year, to reconcile the parties in Florence once more.

Hase's aim was to reconcile modern culture with historical Christianity in a scientific way.

In these circumstances Catherine determined to try her powers of persuasion and argument, attempting first by correspondence to reconcile Gregory and the Florentines, who had been placed under an interdict, and then going in person as the representative of the latter to Avignon, where she arrived on the 18th of June.

The remaining years of his life he devoted to theological speculation and ecclesiastical reforms. His religious enthusiasm led him to oppress his Jewish subjects; on the other hand he sought to reconcile the Christian sects, and to this effect propounded in his Ecthesis a conciliatory doctrine of monothelism.

How could one reconcile the seeming contradiction between everything the cult stood for and the replacement of the divinely anointed king?

But if it gives an indication of the range of approaches, how can we reconcile such apparently incongruent perspectives?

He could not reconcile his faith in God with unconditional obedience to Hitler.

Like Erasmus, Grotius sought to end the religious schism and urged the papacy to reconcile with the Protestant faiths.

You can then easily reconcile your statement with the QuickBooks bank account.

The remarkable discoveries of Fischer and Buchner to a great extent confirm Traube's views, and reconcile Liebig's and Pasteur's theories.

It is an important function of the juge de paix to endeavour to reconcile disputants who come before him, and no suit can be brought before the court of first instance until he has endeavoured without success to bring the parties to an agreement.

Shortly afterwards, perceiving that the Turkish cause was now lost, he sought the mediation of Sobieski to reconcile him with the emperor, offering to lay down his arms if Leopold would confirm the religious rights of the Magyar Protestants and grant him, ThOkiily, the thirteen north-eastern counties of Hungary with the title of prince.

The book was very inconvenient to the Protestants, as it served to emphasize the Eucharistic differences between the Lutherans and Zwinglians at a moment when efforts were being made to reconcile them.

This Admission to Benefices Act, as it was called, passed into law, but did not reconcile the opposing parties.

His warm reception in France and his enthusiastic Republicanism, however, displeased the Federalists at home; he did nothing, moreover, to reconcile the French to the Jay treaty (see JAY, John), which they regarded as a violation of the French treaty of alliance of 1778 and as a possible casus belli.

Now 2 area 17r=2Xr; so that, in order to reconcile the amplitude of the primary wave (taken as unity) with the half effect of the first zone, the amplitude, at distance r, of the secondary wave emitted from the element of area dS must be taken to be dS/Xr (1) By this expression, in conjunction with the quarter-period acceleration of phase, the law of the secondary wave is determined.

The latter view is more in conformity with Roman policy in the East, which did not usually annex countries till they reached (under the rule of client princes) a certain level of civilization and order, but it is difficult to reconcile with Strabo's statements (p. 541 sqq.).

The Austrian archduke John had been appointed regent, pending the election of an emperor; and the political leaders could neither break loose from the tradition of Austrian hegemony, nor reconcile themselves with the idea of a mutilated Germany, till it was too late, and Austria was once more in a position to re-establish the system devised by her diplomacy at the congress of Vienna.

They were in constant communication with Servia and Montenegro; and their ultimate hope, the creation of a great Servian kingdom, was less easy to reconcile with loyalty to Austria.

The people, thoroughly Protestant, were excited by the proofswhich they thought were afforded that the real object of the Tractarians was to reconcile England with Rome; and practices which are now regarded as venial or even praiseworthysuch as the wearing of the surplice in the pulpit, and the institution of the weekly offertorywere denounced because they were instituted by the Tracta.rians, and were regarded as insidious devices to lead the country ROmewards.

He devoted particular attention to trying to reconcile the numerous sects which menaced the existence of the church (see below).

For a long time he could not reconcile himself to the idea that he was one of those same retired Moscow gentlemen-in-waiting he had so despised seven years before.

We need your help in these activities and in finding ways to reconcile the inherent tensions therein.

How businesses attempt to reconcile the conflicts of interest between groups to ensure the efficient operation of the organization.

To reconcile these differences they may need to think creatively to find a solution.

However, this information is difficult to reconcile with independent evidence.

Personal loans literally mold themselves to reconcile with the financial needs of any borrower.

The subjects were challenging, all embracing and leading edge - certainly difficult to reconcile with any notion of conventional compartmentalized learning.

It reinterprets previous histories of hospital policy and questions whether current policies will reconcile competing goals of equity and choice.

We here investigate various subsets of the tilt angle data from sunspots in an attempt to reconcile and understand these apparently contradictory results.

In contrast, some critics have attempted to reconcile a focus on identity with a more universalist outlook.

It's difficult to reconcile this attitude toward failure with our seriously risk-loving culture.

You may decide to meet with a marriage counselor or reconcile while separated, at which time you can contact the court system to dissolve the legal separation between you and your spouse.

Many people (men and women alike) will take their loneliness and despair about the divorce as a sign that they should reconcile with their ex-spouse.

Maybe the word "funky" conjures up images you can't quite reconcile with your existing home décor.