Relations with other religions became more cordial - in particular with Muslims and Jews.

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But the chancellor and prime minister, both Conservatives, clearly enjoy more cordial relations with Britain's big universal banks.

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The official also said that the tone of the meeting was more cordial than one last month, when Mullen took a "more firm" tone with Kayani.

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When contact was made with Harrison, journalists were invited to put questions to the pair and the atmosphere became more cordial than is normally the case at head-to-head pre-fight press conferences.

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Mr Brown's energy secretary, Mr Miliband is almost as close to the former prime minister as Mr Balls, but he has cleaner hands and more cordial relations with the remaining Blairites.

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The students were more cordial and less doctrinaire.

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He spent 13 minutes on a conference call with reporters Thursday afternoon, one of his lengthier and more cordial sessions of the spring, but he never did reveal any details behind perhaps the biggest story of the series so far: his decision to bench star forward Marian Gaborik for much of the third period in Game 2.

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More recently Greece has tried to maintain cordial relations and discreet lines of communication with just about everybody in the Balkans, including Bosnian Muslim or ethnic-Albanian politicians who would not previously have been welcome in Athens.

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