Sentence examples for exploratory contact from inspiring English sources

It is believed that Alex Anthopoulos, Toronto's general manager, made only exploratory contact and that no trade proposals were made.

But the apparent exploratory contact from Xstrata and the three existing offers come on top of a string of other takeovers and deals in the mining and gas sector over the past year, highlighting the strong demand for natural resources like iron and coal as the global economy recovers.

Rhodes had his eye on Strummer, with whom he made exploratory contact.

The three-day "exploratory contacts" among technical experts are not expected to produce substantial agreements.

This was at the request of John Deverell, head of MI5 in Northern Ireland, who proposed exploratory contacts.

The negotiator, Saeb Erekat, confirmed that Israelis and Palestinians were holding exploratory contacts to prepare a possible meeting in the United States between Yasir Arafat and Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Pointing to the depth of distrust between the two sides, General Powell said he had discovered that exploratory contacts over improving security were so touch and go that he had little confidence they would materialize.

3 Italia, in a statement, said that it was not continuing the talks, which it described as "very preliminary exploratory contacts," because it would not be able to get approval for a deal from its owner, Hutchison Whampoa.

But as Peter Hakim of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think-tank, points out, the governments could ask the OAS to undertake exploratory contacts with Cuba that fall short of its formal readmission.Whether or not Mr Obama manages to defuse the Cuba question before arriving, he will be the centre of attention in Port of Spain.

"The Qatar process is exploratory contacts between Taliban and the United States".

ISLAMABAD, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban and the United States have made only exploratory contacts for possible reconciliation which do not involve the Kabul government, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan said on Thursday.