mend fences

Germany's Angela Merkel made clear two years ago that, if Russia wanted better relations with the EU, it had to mend fences with Poland.

The Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen decided that the best way his country could start to mend fences was to say it with flowers.

But privately, he is trying to mend fences with Washington and pull the Palestinians back to the negotiating table.

She might have called a few former friends to apologize, and mend fences for past squabbles .

The mayor is trying to mend fences with members of the city council so they'll approve his plan.

China is trying to mend fences with Russia after the recent border dispute.

The president's wide-ranging speech was designed to mend fences between the United States and the Muslim world.

The prisoners will work for up to 90 days on the gang: they'll clear ditches of weeds and mend fences along Alabama's main roads.

U. S. officials may also have to mend fences after revelations that they gathered personal information on other diplomats.

But buckaroos also bail hay, mend fences, and haul trucks out of desert mud holes.

Sports have long been idealized as a way to heal wounds, mend fences, and rise above differences among cultures and nations.

We assume saying sorry will help to mend fences, but do we over-estimate the power of apology?

He sought to mend fences with them, but later he changed his mind.

You should mend fences with your sister and apologize.

Ten years later, the company with 500 workers here appears to have done little to mend fences in the nation's fourth largest city.

Is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife? .

In order to mend fences I baked a cake for him.

Trying to mend fences with Washington

they'll clear ditches of weeds and mend fences along Alabama's main roads

Pakistan leader seeks to mend fences with Kabul,