Sentence examples for to first broach from inspiring English sources

He said that when he called Genzyme's chief executive in June to first broach the idea of a merger, Mr. Termeer called back to say the company was not interested.

The idea of bringing the art to New York was first broached in 2012, when Asia Society's policy team traveled to Myanmar for a bilateral U.S.-Myanmar dialogue within its ongoing Myanmar Initiative, which aims to strengthen relations between Myanmar and other countries and to support Myanmar's transition to democracy.

The Stone Barns plan was first broached to the Rockefeller families who live on the estate, then to a larger group of about 50 to 60 Rockefellers, said Ms. Dulany, who raises grass-fed cattle in Montana.

Larry Scott, the commissioner of the Pacific-12 Conference, first broached to Rice the idea of her fit on the selection committee.

It was on one of Lin's visits to Sydney, in 1998, that the idea of asking Utzon to return to work on the Opera House was first broached.

As buildings and ideas go, the Millennium Dome was not so much the whitest of £850m white elephants, but the first suggestion that not everything New Labour touched necessarily turned to gold, especially an idea first broached by Michael Heseltine.

When returning to the gold standard was first broached by conservatives in the early 1980s, the idea was not as absurd as it is today.

Nonetheless, designers' bills for Mrs. Obama's clothes have been handled by Ms. Goldman, who, according to the designers Isabel Toledo and Mr. Wu, also first broached the subject of donating their garments to the Smithsonian Institution.