Sentence examples for seeking detente from inspiring English sources
At the time, the United States was playing the Communist states against each other while seeking detente with Moscow.
But he is also remembered for ending the Vietnam war, opening up relations with communist China, and seeking detente with the Soviet Union.
Terrified by the knowledge that their nuclear armed missiles could destroy life on either side of the divide, Moscow and Washington sought detente rather than outright war.
In a letter published by the Guardian, leading opposition figures, who with only a few exceptions are currently behind bars in some of the Islamic republic's most notorious prisons, urged Obama to take the opportunity created by the election of Hassan Rouhani, as Iran's new and moderate president, to seek detente between the two countries.
"We are seeking to promote peace and detente," Mr. Khatami said.
The detente comes as more South Sudanese than ever are seeking refuge at UN bases within the country.
Among the conditions sought when Obama announced detente, Cuba released 53 jailed dissidents.
But in 1992, in the wake of the Cold War and under domestic pressure to end the first Palestinian intifada (1987-1993), Israelectedted Yitzhak Rabin, who adopted two mutually reinforcing security policies: pursuing detente with the Palestinians and casting Iran as a nuclear proliferator seeking to sow "murderous Islamic terror".
Professor Cohen, a long-time friend of Mikhail Gorbachev, is one of the most important Russia scholars in the world and a member of the founding board of directors of the American Committee for East-West Accord, a pro-detente organization that seeks rethinking and public discussion of U.S. policy toward Russia.
The question is why the East German intelligence service should have sought to undermine a man whose policies of detente worked largely in its favour?
