Sentence examples for initiating dialogue from inspiring English sources

The distinguished Israeli writer David Grossman, addressing himself to Israeli leaders, asks: "How could you have wasted the years since the last conflict without initiating dialogue, without even making the slightest gesture toward dialogue with Hamas, without attempting to change our explosive reality?

Since I cannot ask Hamas, nor do I purport to understand its way of thinking, I ask the leaders of my own country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his predecessors: How could you have wasted the years since the last conflict without initiating dialogue, without even making the slightest gesture toward dialogue with Hamas, without attempting to change our explosive reality?

The letters can be seen as both a strategy for initiating dialogue and as a PTA attempt to specify the rules of the game still further (e.g., establish who is in charge and what the PTA expects the principals to do).

Governments are initiating dialogue with their leaders who until recently were marginalized or declared politically illegitimate.

Initiating dialogue with someone doesn't come naturally to many of us -- it's a skill we need to develop with practice.

It means speaking out against harassment in the workplace, refusing unequal pay, exposing biased hiring practices, and proactively initiating dialogue around these issues.

Relations with Iran Described as Tense and Unstable 11. (C) U/S Burns explained in detail the steps the U.S. had taken to initiate dialogue with Tehran and support the Tehran Research Reactor initiative.

"The government must initiate dialogue in areas where there are some concerns from local people".

The league would then initiate dialogue with the opposition at its headquarters in Cairo.

We cannot really know what Kim wants, and what he might give up to get it, until we initiate dialogue.

Once those steps were taken, the league said, it would initiate dialogue between the government and opposition.