Sentence examples for overtures with from inspiring English sources

But some generals have been undermining the government's overtures with more belligerent talk.

Brazil has responded to those overtures with warmth, pledges of support and symbolic shows of friendship.

President Raúl Castro responded to Mr. Obama's overtures with a call for talks about "everything".

India has responded to Sharif's peace overtures with an unprecedented upsurge in cross-border firing.

He has been careful to balance such overtures with gestures aimed at the activist wing of the party.

The Journal was not impressed by the idea: the following day, an editorial rebuffed Strauss's overtures with the line "Optics will not cure inflation".

Stefan Klingele, conducting, launched with a crisp, vividly sculpted overture, with good orchestral playing and unhurried tempi.

But everybody knows the overture, with its amazing an ticipations of Wagner and its great fund of original ideas.

An almost Buddha-like calm hung over the overture, with the saxophone repeating a lovely spiralling figure.

The conductor Fayçal Karoui and the orchestra opened the evening by rising up into full view to play Bernstein's "Candide" Overture with happy panache.

There are two Wagner performances: a "Tannhauser" Overture with minimal interruptions from the conductor (in Russian, naturally), and an uninterrupted "Meistersinger" Prelude.