Sentence examples for overtures less from inspiring English sources

Sometimes too much of this "love" can be overwhelming, and at times it definitely led the Flickr team to handle the overtures less than gracefully.

They also believe that the networks have lightened the load on the Moroccan security sector by making terrorist overtures less appealing to young people, and, along the way, bolstered the legitimacy of the monarchy itself.

In fact, I read it twice, because I could not imagine that it would fail to mention the reason Broadway orchestras are shrinking to the point that overtures are less feasible.

The nature of social interaction problems of children with DBP is qualitative rather than quantitative: they make the same number of attempts at social interaction with their peers, but their overtures are less successful [ 34].

Such charms were harder to find in the encore, Weber's "Euryanthe" Overture, obviously less familiar to the players.

The overture came less than a month after the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, urged closer ties between the Communist nations of Asia.

Mr. Lachman, who rebuffed the Republican overtures, got a less-than-favorable district in the final plan.

In the second half, amid songs from West Side Story, Wonderful Town and other musicals vampishly over-performed by Kim Criswell, Alsop's tilt at the Candide overture was significantly less zippy than Antonio Pappano's with the same orchestra at the LSO's recent centenary gala.

Zuckerberg did not name any names, in terms of who exactly used to be hostile to his overtures and is now less so, but one likely candidate here is (presumably) Google.

A less welcome overture came from his estranged dad.

But the committee also held open the possibility of serving a subpoena to the governor should he decline its less formal overture.