Sentence examples for friendly overtures from inspiring English sources

Franco has made friendly overtures to Gen. de Gaulle.

Would Orest move from friendly overtures to Rose to brutally cruel rejection of Megan so easily?

After he was elected in March 2000, he made several friendly overtures to Beijing.

After Hope rebuffed his friendly overtures, Askins tried a different tack.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's friendly overtures to the United States, soon after taking power in August.

("They all do something in finance we don't understand, don't they?") Friendly overtures are not to be trusted.

Afflicted with insiderism and an eagerness to please, Rogers could be disarmed with a friendly overture.

Ms. Lee said she felt the offer was less a friendly overture than an attempt to muzzle the musicians.

Duveen suspected that the motive for this friendly overture was to keep him from forcing the price up for the prospective buyer, and he politely declined.

MGM Grand made a bid for Mirage — whether it was a hostile or friendly overture has been a point of contention between the two sides — eventually agreeing to buy the company for $4.4 billion and to assume about $2 billion of Mirage debt.

Mr Kasyanov may be clever and tough, but nothing in his past suggests that he is likely to be a scourge of the oligarchs.Mr Putin has made a friendly overture to the Poles, ever suspicious of Russia, but his lieutenants have at the same time been making nasty noises towards other neighbours, including the Balts, whose recently restored independence from Russia is fragile.