Sentence examples for feelers from inspiring English sources

Labour, too, has been putting out some quiet feelers to the Unionists.

The clerics are also putting out feelers to the secular world, though the dialogue is sometimes strained.

Her husband, Solomon, once head of Mr Mugabe's guerrilla army, died two years ago in a mysterious fire as he may have been putting out feelers to Mr Tsvangirai.

Yet even Belarus, previously a reliable Russian ally, has reacted to the August war by nervously putting out feelers to Brussels.Over the past three decades enlargement by the EU to take in new members has proved to be the most effective tool for promoting economic reform and securing liberal democracy.

He let a few dissidents out of prison, sounded ready to negotiate with Israel, put out feelers to the West and, more recently, befriended Turkey.

Since last night's news, some anti-immigration conservative media figures have begun sending out feelers.

Earlier in the month, the American administration had started putting out feelers about cutting subsidies; President Barack Obama floated the idea in his speech to the UN on September 22nd.

At the same time he put out feelers to the opposition Labour Party leader, Yitzhak Herzog, to create a broader national-unity government with 70 seats or more.

Harsher measures would have disrupted the feelers that the Hungarians were sending out to the west.

More war Giuliano Amato, Italy's agile stopgap The arrest of Vladimir Meciar Fresh start Central Europe's Polish big'un ReprintsThere have, at least, been feelers towards a negotiated peace.

Meanwhile South Korea, Japan and America have all been putting out unofficial feelers to North Korea, with China and Russia involved behind the scenes.