Sentences with phrase «to smooth things over»

She is not spending time try to smooth things over with mothers who might disagree with her.

They may cut against the grain but could they actually smooth things over in your troubled marriage?

Medical payments coverage can help to compensate for the injury and smooth things over while ensuring that a later liability claim doesn't arise from the incident.

I can't help but feel that integrating the Switch's touchscreen could smooth things over here.

Sometimes we can't help our initial reaction, and we snap, but we can always smooth things over in our second reaction.

In episode 203, Colin helps Michael and Eileen cope with the unexpected death of a friend while Freddie tries to avoid a war with the Italians; Tommy helps smooth things over with the Speaker of the House's mistress.

Flanagan tried to smooth things over by including «common sense» reforms to the SAFE Act among his top end - of - sesison priorities this year, even though he would be the first to admit that's more or less a non-starter with the Democrat - controlled Assembly and the governor.

Peacemakers are not those who ignore issues or try to smooth things over without actually resolving the issue.

Hillary Clinton took the extraordinary step of calling President Obama to smooth things over after second - guessing his foreign - policy positions in a widely circulated interview with The Atlantic.

Can RBI smooth things over with its franchisee partners, and make Canadians feel good about their beloved brand?

Fortunately, Vincent smoothed things over with a talk to all owners on Thursday, «an excellent speech,» according to the Philadelphia Phillies» Bill Giles.

Lalas took a shot at Jones» English, even though he is German - born, before trying to sort of smooth things over.

«and I hold my hand up as I can not deny I did try to help smooth things over today, and then two people who had fuck all to do with it, and have spectacularly fallen out with each other in the past have tried to fans the flames.

Unfortunately, also like Nick and Norah, the screenplay works against anything great happening with the music because it feels too draggy and uneven — even the sounds of P.M. Dawn can't smooth things over.

is still present in some form (even a quick look at track names like «Nothing Lasts,» «At the End of It All,» and «Heartbreak» reveals that much), but the band has undoubtedly smoothed things over and pushed its sound closer to the dancefloor.

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

When Albert arrives a second time, he recruits Rita for a face - to - face with Ford management, pills in suits who expect her to sit quietly while the manly men smooth things over and sort things out.

This certainly smooths things over in the case of a brief reconciliation.

Successfully smoothed things over with a high - profile business client, resulting in repeat bookings from that client

«A gift card can go a long ways toward smoothing things over.

A lesser man would be in prison now, but Geraci had smoothed things over by hand - delivering a cash donation to the pension fund of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, whose men in Florida had performed like champs, and by paying a visit (and a sizable tribute) to the Stracci Family capo who controlled the docks in north Jersey.

Apologizing without directly and clearly acknowledging what went wrong will make your man feel like you're simply saying «I'm sorry» just to try and smooth things over without fully dealing with what happened between the two of you.

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton took the extraordinary step of calling President Obama to smooth things over after second - guessing his foreign policy positions in a widely circulated magazine interview.

So the hard - driving energy secretary may be relying on a trusted deputy to smooth things over while he refills the ranks of the department.

If we could just open up about the baggage and smooth things over in a light and positive way, we wouldn't have to always feel the weight of it throughout by ignoring it.

Some Fox watchers said recently that Ailes had smoothed things over with Rupert, and that his position within 21st Century Fox remained solid.

You probably didn't mean it — or maybe you did — but now you realize in order to keep the peace at the office, you need to smooth things over.

As far as we know, he never made any particular effort to smooth things over with Cruz, or make him feel like he'd won something.

It hired new lawyers to smooth things over with the ministry, and rented vehicles from competitors when it could.

«But now they need to reach out to developers and smooth things over.»

According to reports, Sprint majority stakeholder SoftBank Group, and T - Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG can't agree on how much control each would receive in the deal; CNBC is reporting Deutsche Telecom's management may visit SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son this weekend to smooth things over.

So let the glossy people take their botox and smooth things over and pretend they aren't wringing this thing right dry, because the rest of us are going to try and we have no shame.

He never tried to come up with a way to smooth things over with those demons, and / or to make sure they didn't pitch a fit, and / or that they were never made to feel uncomfortable!

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.

This is a heady mix of English Breakfast, Assam, Orange Pekoe, a touch of Darjeeling to smooth things over and a secret ingredient or two extra to make it more memorable.

According to The Independent, the Chilean international is still refusing to renew his deal as he seeks an exit this summer, and such is his desire to join Guardiola in Manchester, it's claimed that he's willing to lower his # 300,000 - a-week wage demands to smooth things over.

Clark tried to smooth things over.

That a change or two behind the scenes might smooth things over.

«I would apologize to the neighbors to try to smooth things over, and also smile and hand them ear plugs.

Quite often, that means apologizing for everything in an attempt to smooth things over.

While Mr. Paladino has said he does not seek out endorsements, he had made a deliberate effort to smooth things over with Mr. Pataki.

Aqueduct Entertainment Group, which emerged late last month as the surprise — and controversial — winner of a drawn - out bidding process to develop the Queens racino, is moving to smooth things over with the public by cutting ties with Darryl Greene, the partner who pleaded guilty to stealing $ 500,000 from city agencies in the 1990s.

Rechnitz said he emailed «Norman under control» to let the mayor know he'd smoothed things over with the union boss.

Did it never occur to Lord Mandelson that by continually trying to smooth things over, he was simply enabling the disagreements?

Approached later for comment, Lemoine said he had talked to Chan to smooth things over.

She remembered Graham, who was able to smooth things over.