Sentences with phrase «smooth over relations»

Kate, meanwhile, is supposed to marry airhead Alpha Garth (Chris Carmack), their union a strategic move to smooth over relations between our lead wolves and the rival neighbor Eastern Pack.

Macedo didn't directly refer to any of the incidents when asked whether Tim Hortons was doing anything to smooth over relations with the restaurant owners, but he stressed that the company «works closely» with franchisees.

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Knowing how, when, and why to issue a smart apology can be the difference between a public - relations hiccup that can be smoothed over.

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

When the churches can no longer avoid controversy by smoothing things over, the positions that emerge in debate have little relation to the Christian faith.

smoothing things over from a public relations standpoint, and (hopefully) accept the vaunted Two Diamond Award on their behalf.

After scientists have done the hard work of working out these relations, it is possible to use one ice - core record to represent broader regions IF you restrict consideration to the parts that are widely coherent, so it is O.K. to plot a smoothed version of an Antarctic temperature record against CO2 over long times and discuss the relation as if it is global, but a lot of background is required.

We use 7 - day GRACE solutions and equivalent satellite altimetry maps, spatially smoothed over 750 km, to investigate the relation between pb and ζ.