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"fence-mending" Definitions
  1. an attempt to improve relations between two people or groups and to try to find a solution when they disagree

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But fence-mending was needed in Africa, where Mr. Tillerson is making a five-nation tour.
One analyst saw it as a sign of the country's "assiduous fence-mending campaign" toward China.
Yet major differences remain and the Clinton machine — with major fence-mending to do of its own — awaits.
Instead, investors are focusing on CEO Tim Cook's fence-mending trip to China and his upcoming trip to India.
It was the start of a fence-mending mission that would eventually land Mr. Cuomo the governorship eight years later.
Clinton's first fence-mending effort in March 2009 was not so much a show of strength than of diplomatic clumsiness.
But beyond and outside of the 2016 presidential election, Democrats have plenty of soul-searching and fence mending to do.
ISTANBUL — Turkey continued its diplomatic fence mending on Monday, apologizing for downing a Russian jet near its border with Syria last year.
And thanks to the fence-mending initiated by Wright, Massimino attended Villanova's 2016 national championship victory, the university's second, over North Carolina.
President Michel Aoun, a Christian ally of Hezbollah, said after a fence-mending visit to Riyadh this month he was confident Gulf tourists would return.
The first fence-mending gathering, called the Vietnam-China Border Defense Friendship Exchange Program, took place in 2014 and was intended to promote bilateral trust.
Given that sources have told news networks -- including CNN -- that some the information was from Israeli intelligence, he'll have to do some fence-mending in Israel.
Mr. Trump had a fence-mending call with Mr. Xi on Thursday night and agreed to honor the One China policy at the Chinese leader's request.
A group of 16 conservatives, including Glenn Beck and Brent Bozell, traveled to Facebook for a fence-mending meeting with top executives, including the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
But Mr. Trump's contrition and efforts at fence-mending went only so far: He ignored reporters' questions on Friday about his derogatory remarks about African countries this month.
And a large number of Republicans said the fence-mending starts with this: Apologizing to McConnell for calling him a liar last year on the floor of the Senate.
Mr. Trump had a fence-mending telephone call with President Xi Jinping of China last week and promised to stick by America's longstanding "One China" policy, reportedly at Mr. Tillerson's urging.
Despite sending fence-mending letters to Mr. Trump's personal email account, and getting confirmation from Mr. Trump's personal secretary that they had been read, Mr. Pérez hasn't heard a word back.
In Iraq, prominent religious and political figures demanded that ties be severed, calling into question fence-mending efforts by Riyadh that had been intended to boost a regional alliance against Islamic State militants.
After the Chapman episode last season, and his departure as a free agent, Maddon had to do some fence-mending with the likes of Carl Edwards Jr., Pedro Strop, Hector Rondon and Mike Montgomery.
But none of those fence-mending/coalition-building initiatives worked to gain Nixon any real bipartisan support in Washington, evidenced most clearly by the spirited efforts to impeach and eventually force his resignation during the long Watergate scandal.
A fence-mending phone call in February was arranged by Kushner and China's U.S. ambassador, Cui Tiankai, U.S. officials said, after Cui invited Ivanka Trump to the Chinese embassy's Lunar New Year reception, where her daughter sang in Mandarin.
A fence-mending phone call in February was arranged by Kushner and China's U.S. ambassador, Cui Tiankai, officials say, after Cui invited Trump's daughter Ivanka to the Chinese Embassy's Lunar New Year reception, where her daughter sang in Mandarin.
HONG KONG — State-run newspapers in Vietnam and China reported in recent days that senior military officials from the two countries would hold a fence-mending gathering along a border where their militaries fought a brief but bloody war in 1979.
The Sunni-ruled kingdom reopened its embassy in Baghdad this week for the first time since ties were cut in 1990 over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, underscoring fence-mending efforts that could help boost a regional alliance against Islamic State militants.
Not only did Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) get engaged, but Hannah was offered a job at an out-of-town university, before engaging in impromptu fence mending with estranged friend Jessa (Jemima Kirke), who had become involved with Hannah's ex Adam (Adam Driver).
BRUSSELS — President Trump on Thursday punctured any illusions that he was on a fence-mending tour of Europe, declining to explicitly endorse NATO's mutual defense pledge and lashing out at fellow members for what he called their "chronic underpayments" to the alliance.
Obama's reconciliation diplomacy -- stretching from Tehran to Havana where he restored relations and to Hanoi where he sparked Obama-mania in a nation once devastated by American military aggression -- offers a stark contrast to Abe's feeble attempts at fence mending over Japan's wartime aggression.
He helped orchestrate a fence-mending phone call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi last month, in which Mr. Trump pledged to abide by "one China," the four-decade-old policy under which the United States recognized a single Chinese government in Beijing and severed its diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
First, he summoned the entire leadership of America's television news juggernauts to his Trump Tower aerie in New York for what his mouthpiece, Kelleyanne Conway called a "fence-mending session," then launched into a lengthy harangue about how bad a job they were doing covering him -- and incidentally using most unflattering images.
Mr. Kushner first made his influence felt in early February when he and Mr. Cui orchestrated a fence-mending phone call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi. During that exchange, Mr. Trump pledged to abide by the four-decade-old "One China" policy on Taiwan, despite his earlier suggestion that it was up for negotiation.
Ellen's only sister, Diana Marie, was born in October 1929. In 1930, frequent fence-mending between Ella and Emory Johnson was over and their divorce decree was finalized. Ella and her three children moved in with Ella's mother. Ella's mother, Mary Hall, lived in an unassuming Spanish stucco in North Hollywood.
An inscription reading "J White 1898" was discovered deep within Carlsbad Caverns in the 1980s. It provides witness to the presence of a 15- or 16-year-old Jim White. While riding his horse through the Chihuahuan Desert looking for stray cattle with a fence mending crew for the Lucas brothers, Jim saw a plume of bats rising from the desert hills. It appeared to be a volcano, or a whirlwind but did not behave quite like either.
The city was not chosen by chance: Most Catholic Armenians live in the northern parts of Armenia. This has become a kind of basis for fence- mending with the coreligionists on the other side of the border. Today Catholic Armenians of Samtskhe-Javakheti live together in Akhaltsikhe and in the nearby villages, as well as in the regions of Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda. The communities in the last two regions, which are mainly rural, are in rather distant areas, but the most important link is the historical memory of Catholicism.
On 6 November 2002, Mennini was named Nuncio to Russia and from 26 July 2008 was also Nuncio to Uzbekistan. He is credited with notably improving the Holy See’s relations with the former Soviet countries in the Federation and with the Russian Orthodox Church. As recently as 2001 Rome was criticised by the Russian Orthodox for establishing dioceses without adequate consultation in Russia. However, through the nuncio’s fence-mending efforts the situation gradually began to change and in December 2009 President Dmitry Medvedev approved the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the two states.
She worked to elect Romney as governor and his lieutenant governor, William Milliken, who succeeded him when Romney became joined the cabinet of President Richard Nixon as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1969. At the Republican National Committee, Peterson was a strong advocate for outreach, empowerment, fence-mending and organization. She continued the practices that had made her effective as chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party. Inquisitive and probing, she was also quick to laugh and often referred to as "mother" by her interns, such as Christine Todd Whitman.
The Anand government's policies to its neighbours followed the lead of his predecessor Chatichai. Relationships with Laos improved significantly, with Thailand allocating one-half of its 200 million baht aid budget to the nation.Bangkok Post, 20 February 1992 Thailand under Anand became deeply involved in the Cambodian peace process, while relations with Vietnam went through a period of fence-mending and confidence-building. The only foreign relations area where there were serious reasons for criticising Anand's administration was Thailand's soft stance towards the repressive military junta of Burma.
Dan Stephen, president of the museum's board, described Bacigalupi's tenure as "We wanted someone with fire in his belly, and we got someone like that—someone who could do some fence mending, someone who could help us take our place in the community of museums and as an educational resource." During Bacigalupi's tenure, exhibitions at the museum included High Societies, Axis Mexico, Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting, and Power & Desire: South Asian Paintings from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. From 2003 to 2009, Bacigalupi served as director of the Toledo Museum of Art. During his tenure, Bacigalupi acquired numerous works for the collection including The Party by Marisol Escobar, Executive by Duane Hanson, and Chandelier Campiello del Remer #2 by Dale Chihuly.
Japan: Chinese foreign minister on fence-mending visit – Radio Australia program transcript, date unknown In a similar case, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl was criticised by writers Günter Grass and Elie Wiesel for visiting the war cemetery at Bitburg (in the company of Ronald Reagan) which also contained the bodies of SS troops.Reagan Joins Kohl in Brief Memorial at Bitburg Graves – New York Times, Monday 6 May 1985 Unlike the case of the Yasukuni Shrine, there was no element of intentional disregard of international opinion involved, as is often claimed for the politician visits to the Japanese shrine. Soviet World War II memorials included quotes of Joseph Stalin's texts, frequently replaced after his death. Such memorials were often constructed in city centres and now are sometimes regarded as symbols of Soviet occupation and removed, which in turn may spark protests (see Bronze Soldier of Tallinn).
Aróstegui 2013, p. 632 In September he entered the newly formed wartime party executive Junta Nacional Carlista de Guerra as its secretary.Vallverdu i Martí 2014, p. 22 With his office based in Burgos, Lamamié was also entrusted with recruitment and deployment of requeté.Aróstegui 2013, p. 647 He seemed to have stood in-between Fal Conde and somewhat autonomous Navarrese command, Junta Central Carlista. Some authors claim he was among Fal's less dependable trustees,Blinkhorn 2008, p. 269 though this enabled him to engage in some fence-mending between the two Carlist Juntas.e.g. in early December 1936, following Fal Conde’s decision to set a Carlist-only military academy, Lamamié travalled to Pamplona to discuss with the local executive the details of setting up and the institution and organizing its teaching staff; one historian views the move as sort of an olive branch offered to the Navarrese Junta by Fal and the central Junta, Peñas Bernaldo 1996, p.
Some senior Church of England leaders have been reported as considering the establishment of the ordinariate to be damaging to relations between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches. The Bishop of Lincoln, John Saxbee, said that "I can't judge the motives behind it [the offer], but the way it was done doesn't sit easily with all of the talk about working towards better relations" and that "Fence mending will need to be done to set conversations back on track." Roman Catholic clergy who were present at an ecumenical service at Westminster Cathedral for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were reported as being "dismayed" by the sermon by Canon Giles Fraser, then Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, which included comments that the ordinariate had a "slightly predatory feel" and that "In corporate terms, [it is] a little like a takeover bid in some broader power play of church politics." Bishop Christopher Hill, the chairman of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity, later described the erection of the ordinariate as an "insensitive act".

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