His conciliatory style extends to House Republicans, who seethed under what they viewed as the autocratic rule of Mr. Wright.

Redmond's low-key and conciliatory style of leadership gave the impression of weakness but reflected the problem of keeping together a factionalised party.

His conciliatory, managerial style and likeable personality made him well respected.

At the time, he promised to bring a conciliatory style to an organization that had been divided by religious, racial and political disputes.

But Mr. Dunne's conciliatory style is one of the things Mr. Thornburgh saw in him.

A conciliatory style is remedial, a method of 'social repair and maintenance, assistance for people in trouble', concerned with 'what is necessary to ameliorate a bad situation'.

Mr. Mitchell's accommodating, conciliatory style has served him well in this part of the job.

Skinner's conciliatory style served him well during the following years, as the late 1960s saw a rise in union restlessness with a government-controlled wage-fixing system.

And many outsiders say they like the choices Mr. Bush has made for his key officers and, after the bitterness of the campaign, his conciliatory, take-charge style.

In recent months, Mrs. Shaheen's conciliatory style and legislative know-how have continued to work.