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It declared that the national honor of Albania had been insulted by "brutal and unconciliatory demands" made upon Albania by Jugoslavia, recently, to obtain the release of a Jugoslav spy arrested and jailed in Albania.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not helped by a parade abroad of official American flag wavers, who have tried to hard sell the U.S. program in rather unconciliatory terms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first, inhabited by Stephanopoulos, Harold Ickes, Paul Begala, Mandy Grunwald, James Carville and the swarm of communications minions, tend to be fighters, counterpunchers and by habit unconciliatory.

From Time Magazine Archive

National Committee, and Goldwater could see that his cold, unconciliatory acceptance speech and his explosive line about extremism had refueled, rather than dampened, the fiery convention tempers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like the lady friend of Dr. Johnson, who congratulated him that there were no improper words in his dictionary, and received from that unconciliatory sage the reply, 'You have been looking for them, have you?'

From Some Private Views by Payn, James