Everything they said or did was said and done with a view to conciliate people who might have direct or indirect influence in the country.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
She has all the simple fondness of heart of poor, weak, loving woman; and her only thoughts at present are how to conciliate and reclaim her wayward swain.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
30. The poet of the whigs might exaggerate the success of their teachers; yet, it must be owned, that their doctrine of insubordination, joined to their vagrant and lawless habits, was calculated strongly to conciliate their border hearers.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott