Oehlenschläger being hailed with laurels as " The Nordic Poet-king " by his Swedish contemporary Esaias Tegnér as a gesture of Denmark – Sweden_relations | reconciliation between the two peoples

Ælfhere initated the reinterment, perhaps as a gesture of reconciliation.

Under the Directory the square was renamed Place de la Concorde as a gesture of reconciliation after the turmoil of the French Revolution.

This reconciliation was marketed as gesture of good will from Pierre Amine Gemayel who deemed it was time to turn the page and give those who were unfaithful to the party principles a second chance.

" It was clearly not a gesture that looked toward reconciliation, Fox never apologized, and the differences remained.

The gesture was widely seen as a major step towards the reconciliation of white and black South Africans.

His marriage to the former Protector Somerset's eldest daughter, in the presence of the King and a magnificent setting, was a gesture of reconciliation between the young couple's fathers.

President Cristiani, during the signing ceremony of the 1992 peace accords walked to the ex-commanders of the FMLN and shook their hands as a spontaneous and non-expected gesture of reconciliation.

In an attempt to win the support of the local Acehnese, the Dutch built the Masjid Raya Baiturrahman or Great Mosque in Banda Aceh as a gesture of reconciliation.

On 15 September 2004, a source close to the government told the Australian Associated Press that George Speight, the chief instigator of the 2000 coup, currently serving life-sentence for treason, had had a change of heart towards the Indo-Fijian community following a religious conversion experience in jail, and that he wished to take part in the Fiji Week activities as a gesture of reconciliation.

In a gesture of reconciliation, Wilde did the work himself but dedicated Douglas as the translator rather than having them sharing their names on the title-page.

The concerto was, in part, a gesture of reconciliation towards Joachim, after their long friendship had ruptured following Joachim's divorce from his wife Amalie.

( It has been rumored that ECV brethren within the U. S. Army even attempted to bring the order as far south as Mexico City following the Mexican-American War as a gesture of brotherhood and reconciliation, but all record has vanished of the well-intentioned Chapultepec chapter.

A Community / Leisure centre ( since demolished ) was built in 1970 with aid from a German organisation as a gesture of friendship and reconciliation after the Clydebank Blitz.

Scholars believe that Muhammad married Safiyya as part of reconciliation with the Jewish tribe and as a gesture of goodwill.

On 30 September 2005, Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, in a gesture of reconciliation, unveiled the newly refurbished Memorial Arch of the barracks in the presence of several ambassadors and foreign emissaries, military attachés and town dignitaries ; a detachment of the Local Defence Force, the Number 1 Irish Army Band and various ex-service organisations paraded.

He appointed Lyne as his Minister for Home Affairs in what many saw as a gesture of reconciliation.

Leopold apparently named his daughter after his mother as a gesture of reconciliation between them.

In 1443, in a gesture of reconciliation, Peter created his own half-brother Afonso Duke of Braganza and relations between the two seemed to return to normality.

In 1443, in a gesture of reconciliation, Peter made Afonso the first Duke of Braganza and the relations between both seemed to return to normality.

On 17 September 2007, with Prime Minister Howard facing probable electoral defeat, Noel Pearson sent him a 6000 word letter, arguing that Howard's best chance at re-election was to make a dramatic gesture in relation to reconciliation with the Aboriginal population.

In August 1660, following the Restoration of Charles II, the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion was passed as a gesture of reconciliation to reunite the kingdom.

President Nixon's last farewell gesture after his resignation.

At the end of the war in 1945, Churchill was invited onto the balcony in a similar gesture to that given to Chamberlain.

In a further highly significant gesture, Pope Benedict XVI invited three CPCA-appointed bishops, together along with one " underground " bishop, to the October 2005 assembly of the Synod of Bishops as full members, not as " fraternal delegates ", the term used for representatives of non-Catholic churches invited to attend.

Delenn was not invited to the meeting because her presence would make it appear that the Council was voting to support her personal attempt to save her lover, not as a gesture of real support.

He personally invited the young Fukuda to study judo — an unusual gesture for that time — as a mark of respect for her grandfather.

In late 1975, President Lyman F. Edwards of the Far West stake of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now known as the Community of Christ, invited Bond to participate in the stake's annual conference as a good-will gesture for the United States Bicentennial.

As a supposedly conciliatory gesture, Colombo invited Gallo to a peace meeting with an offering of $ 1, 000.

In a gesture of thanks, the Emperor during his state visit to Italy in 1953 invited the widowed Duchess of Aosta to tea during his stay in Milan, but was then informed by the Italian government that receiving the Duchess would cause offense to the Italian Republic, and so the Emperor sadly canceled the visit.

In a conciliatory gesture, Riel on November 6 asked the Anglophones to select delegates from each of their parishes to attend a convention with the Métis representatives.

If you look closely at the angels who attend the scary prophetess on the Sistine ceiling known as the Cumaean Sibyl, you will see that one of them has stuck his thumb between his fingers in that mysteriously obscene gesture that visiting fans are still treated to today at Italian football matches.

This is a gesture to old policies based on the ability for fans to attend games.

In an unprecedented gesture of ecumenism, he even encouraged Catholics to attend Billy Graham's crusades.

In 1867, his journey with Palacký to Moscow to attend a convention in protest of dualism was falsely interpreted by the Czech press to be a symbolic gesture towards Pan-Slavism.

At her request, after her funeral the wreath that had lain atop her coffin was placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, in a gesture that echoed her wedding-day tribute 79 years before.

After Davis died, an emotional Hines spoke at Davis's funeral of how Sammy had made a gesture to him, " as if passing a basketball … and I caught it.

At Elisabeth's funeral, Victoria removed her Hessian Order, a medallion, and placed it on her daughter's coffin as a final gesture " that she had made a final break with her old home.

The admiral ’ s remains and those of five of his officers were recovered from the wreck of the Petropavlovsk by Japanese salvage teams, and in 1913, as a gesture of good will, the officers and crew of the Japanese cruiser presided over the funeral for the admiral in the military cemetery of Port Arthur.

On the day of his funeral, two days later, the CPR stopped all trains for two minutes – a symbolic gesture to one of its founding partners.

Even Homer decides to stop acting in a rude manner towards Ned, instead accompanying him back home after the funeral and giving him a goodnight kiss as a gesture of friendship.

When the second President of Somaliland Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal died, he received a state funeral and thousands of Somalis flocked to witness his funeral and mourn his death but the flag of Somaliland was raised at full mast instead of the traditional half-mast gesture.

If, however, you hug the same colleague while attending his mother ’ s funeral, the gesture may be perfectly acceptable.