Whether Labour politicians are currently open to overtures from centre-left colleagues is questionable.
MOSCOW — The Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, said Tuesday that his administration was open to overtures from the United States on its proposed missile defense plan, but he dismissed the notion of a deal in which the United States would shelve the plan in exchange for Russia's help on Iran.
Lukashenko's iron-fisted internal politics haven't changed but he has always remained open to overtures from the west despite his close ties to Russia, said Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs and chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defence policy.
In response to Himmler's attempts to open peace overtures with the Allies in 1945 through Count Bernadotte, Churchill enquired if they should negotiate with Himmler and bump him off later.
The number three, a Masonic signature, flows through the opera: Three Ladies, Three Boys, three shouts of "Help" by Tamino, three big chords to open the overture, three flats in its musical key signature, E flat.
From the synchronised weathercocks that open the overture to the final bold gesture of Beecham conducting the final bars then putting down his baton and rubber-stamping the score with the words "Made in England", the film is inventive, authoritative and passionate.
Some Republicans say that they are open to White House overtures but that the party should be wary.
And if its restaurant-strength, frosty competence was off-putting, I could find myself open to the overtures of a British manufacturer that offered a more primitive notion of unapologetic domesticity in something called not a stove but a cooker.
The betting, as we speak, is on Cameron, who, mid-afternoon, made what he called "big, open, and comprehensive" overtures to Clegg, including tender promises on education, carbon emissions, and civil rights — flowers and chocolates, you might say, to any Liberal Democrat of taste, although the naughtiest whisper came with a hint of electoral reform.
As a preview of coming Met attractions, it opened with two overtures based on music from "Benvenuto Cellini," including "Carnaval Romain".
