Sentence examples for overtures after from inspiring English sources

The overtures, after a decade of evasions and deceptions by Iraq, were ultimately rebuffed.

Nonetheless, with the exception of George W. Bush, whose administration spurned Iranian overtures after Sept. 11, every president since 1979 saw it in America's national interests to try and mend relations with Tehran.

When the mild reformist Mohammad Khatami was president in Tehran, the US was led by George W Bush, who dismissed Iran as part of an "axis of evil", and shrugged off Khatami's secret overtures after the Iraq invasion in 2003.

Mr. Putin had been courting China and India as strategic allies as recently as this summer, only to shelve those overtures after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in favor of a full-fledged attempt to ally Russia with a Western alliance against terror.

"We have made overture after overture to the dictator of North Korea," he said, including on normalizing the country's relationship with the West and a formal peace agreement to replace the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War but not the state of hostilities.

There's no proper overture – after a short orchestral introduction, the prologue contains two choruses and a dance – but there are orchestral interludes, dances and a couple of melodramas (played here without the spoken text), as well as solo songs for mezzo and tenor and set-piece choruses.

"We have to go together!" he says, seemingly unaware that he spent two years snitting and spitting in the corner as overture after overture was sent his way, only to return covered in the leavings of obstructionists.

After the friend made a few spurned overtures — and after some awkward conversations about why Ms. Brunner was always too busy to get together — the friend got the hint.

Paul Taylor shows this to perfection in the opening phrases of "Offenbach Overtures" (which, after a pause far longer than "Faun" itself, followed).

The latest North Korean overture comes after the summit meeting between President Obama and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, this month.

The British prime minister, Tony Blair, expressed interest in this overture this week after talking twice to President Mohammad Khatami.