In the cold light of morning, Labour had to assess yesterday how much it mattered that their 12-year rapprochement with The Sun was over.
Blair's letter was written following several years of rapprochement between the UK and Libya, a process that gathered pace after the al-Qaida attacks of 9/11.
If that proves to be the case, Argentina will be veering away from eight years of rapprochement with partners in South America and beyond, including Venezuela, Cuba, China and Russia – all countries with which Fernández developed close commercial or ideological ties.
The "attack," according to Jongsma, consisted of Hedrick's suggesting to Davis earlier in the day that they pretend to be good friends in order to reap whatever marketing opportunities might come from such a made-for-TV, Olympic-year tale of rapprochement between two bitter American rivals.
For years, the design company and the car company kept their distance, but in recent years there was a rapprochement.
McCartney biographer Howard Sounes views Harrison's attendance as evidence of a "Beatles rapprochement", five years after their break-up.
Bartoli has not played Fed Cup for France for nearly seven years and, barring a remarkable rapprochement, will not play at the Olympics next year.
Rouhani and President Obama almost met in New York, a near miss that by the standards of Iranian-American estrangement over the past 34 years counts as a radical rapprochement.
Washington no longer had to fear that Turkey might be "drifting eastward," as it did during the short-lived Turkish-Iranian rapprochement a few years ago, when Turkey broke ranks with its Western partners over the Iranian nuclear issue.
SEOUL, South Korea — Plans for what would have been the highest government dialogue between North and South Korea in years — and hopes for a rapprochement on the divided Korean Peninsula — collapsed over what appeared to be a minor technical issue: who should lead their delegations to the planned talks.
The visit of Meshaal, who has been in exile from the Palestinian territories for 45 years, may also signal a rapprochement between the internal and external leaderships of Hamas, and a new enthusiasm for reconciliation with rival West Bank-based faction Fatah.
