Sentence examples for making friendly from inspiring English sources

While making friendly noises to Vojislav Kostunica, the winner of the presidential election on September 24th, it has not publicly declared Mr Milosevic the loser.

The teams have few resources, and many of India's Asian neighbors and most likely opponents are unstable, making friendly matches and international tournaments a logistical nightmare.

The UAE, along with other Gulf states, have been being making friendly overtures to Iran following the election of that country's new president and the prospect of a deal on its nuclear programme.

The president's address will be closely watched for signs that he may meet later in the day with Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, a moderate cleric who has been making friendly gestures toward the US in recent weeks.

However, Saudi Arabia, the sponsor of the Arab peace initiative, has made clear that it is not interested in making friendly overtures unless Israel first demonstrates its good faith by freezing all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.

Still, in an effort to change his (and Romania's) reputation for command-style economics, Mr Iliescu is making friendly noises to the IMF and the World Bank.The immediate problem is to cope with the winter.

Franco has made friendly overtures to Gen. de Gaulle.

I jumped in and we made friendly small talk.

The longer you spend as a novelist, through, the more you inevitably make friendly connections.

The national media is mercilessly lampooning Mitt's efforts to make friendly with the locals.

If the Rag & Bone designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright set out to make friendly clothes, without a lick of irony, they succeeded.