Sentence examples for overtures in from inspiring English sources

Mr. Muti rejected the orchestra's overtures in July.

Political leaders on both sides had made similar overtures in the past.

Consider the sexist overtures in even the praise heaped on May.

"We've made overtures in the past with other firms," he said, "and we've been politely rejected".

VF has made friendly overtures in Warnaco's direction for some time, but is disinclined to make a hostile deal.

If this is going to happen, New York needs to make overtures in the next 24 hours.

Even a plea bargain remains a possibility, though the defense attorneys state that they (and especially their client) have made and will make no overtures in securing one.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new President of Iran, was not elected to deny the Holocaust, to make threatening overtures in the direction of Israel.

But the German government responded coolly to overtures in this direction, thus feeding the fears of British leaders who saw Germany as a threat to British interests.

Fontaine was nominated again for her role as a young woman besotted with a composer oblivious to her overtures in The Constant Nymph (1943).

North Korea's Threats and Overtures In his annual New Year's Day speech, Kim Jong Un had messages for the United States and South Korea.