Sentence examples for instead of rapprochement from inspiring English sources

The risk is that instead of rapprochement, mutual tensions will increase, and the pair will drift even further apart.

After President Xi's remarks Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga expressed disappointment: "Tokyo had requested that Beijing make sure that the event was not so anti-Japanese, but instead contain elements of rapprochement between Japan and China".

Instead of supporting this ever staunch ally, Washington instead chose to amplify the benefits of rapprochement with a post-Soviet empire, in hopes of selling what can only be termed a disastrous new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to the American public and Congress.

Faced with the clear hostility of the Russian Emperor Nicholas I, Wallachian revolutionaries sought instead a rapprochement with the Ottoman leadership.

But there was no sign of rapprochement.

Such outward signs of rapprochement still make some people blink.

Gaddafi begins a policy of rapprochement with the west.

Putin did however offer a typically stern proposal of rapprochement.

However, as of Monday night, there were no evident signs of rapprochement.

It is an appealing vision of rapprochement between the economy and the environment.

Religious groups and the government entered a period of rapprochement in the mid-1980s.