Sentence examples for the first overture from inspiring English sources

This year he ran it in 4.25, the first overture to his encore.

A month after Mr. Hanssen arrived in New York, the K.G.B. received the first of its dozens of written communications from the agent they would dub B. According to court papers, the first overture came in an unsigned typed letter sent to a K.G.B. officer at the Soviet Embassy in Washington.

Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company's decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many speculated it was the first overture for a coming acquisition.

Don't always wait for the other person to make the first overture.

Significantly, however, it was Philip, and not Athens, who made the first overtures for peace, though all the military initiatives lay in his own hand.

He understood that Israel would not be displaced militarily, and that conclusion led him to make the first overtures to the Israelis by an Arab leader, resulting in the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

There were plenty of reasons he did not: his first overture was to the Muslim world; he was actively brokering peace talks in 2010; those talks withered in 2011; and by 2012, he was running for re-election.

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

The statement today was the second iteration of that guarantee and the first such overture to President Bush, who only recently renewed efforts to cultivate North Korea after a review of American policy.

This was the first public overture toward a possible settlement with the SEC, whose civil fraud investigation preceded a 30% drop in the firm's share price.

When Williamson made his first overture to Dynegy's creditors, the company had $2 billion of debt maturing in 2003 and another $3 billion coming due in 2005.