Sentence examples for overtures for from inspiring English sources

The Libyans' overtures for disarmament began in 1999.

Guoping suggested that it would be impossible for Iran to ignore President Obama's overtures for long.

Syria has recently renewed overtures for talks it first made, without success, last spring.

We don't expect them to recognise such overtures for what they are: well-meant, but limiting.

Denver, which added frontcourt reinforcements in Ruben Patterson and Reggie Evans, made overtures for Iverson.

Some Israeli commentators similarly concluded that the accusations emerged simply as another indirect way to rebuff Syrian overtures for peace.

Lutoslawski wrote his Overture for Strings in 1949.

It was a somber overture for the 30's.

Mozart didn't write an overture for the work either.

It was the first public overture for the struggling Web portal.

Mr. Carey's "Wily Overture," for string quartet, piano and percussion, was a sly, antic curtain-raiser.