1 They began making overtures to the Irish government.

2 She spurned his overtures of love.

3 Their government is making overtures for peace.

4 She had rejected his overtures.

5 He made friendly overtures to his new neighbours.

6 He began making overtures to a number of merchant banks.

7 Had there been overtures from other firms?

8 Arledge, whom Gumbel admires, had made earlier overtures.

9 By 1987 he was busy making overtures to Washington.

10 When your overtures are misconstrued, the prudent course is sometimes to apologise and withdraw.

11 After making these overtures(), Harding pressed Congress no further and made no additional public moves to support the Dyer Bill.

12 Opera overtures usually contain all the main musical themes of the opera, and should be listened to with the curtain down.

13 Californians have already begun seeing overtures from retailers as the competition stirs.

14 This trite communication put an end to Emma's overtures and she began to fade from their lives.

15 Colours echo with overtures of country lane rambles, windswept beaches and wild flower-filled meadows.

16 He now had nowhere to go, despite overtures from all three political parties.

17 His overtures were not immediately successful, but a shrewd buy was Oldham's reserve goalkeeper Frank Moss.

18 She repelled the overtures of friendship.

19 Danforth's overtures were surprisingly well received.

20 Since then, there various overtures have come from Pyongyang.

21 All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.

22 Neither side in the conflict seems willing to make peace overtures.

23 He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship.

24 In fact, I had once or twice let myself be tempted into making overtures to her.

25 She had left him in no doubt about her reaction to his overtures.

26 He began to tell his family she was his girlfriend although in reality she had rejected his overtures.

27 This was hardly music to Britain's ears: the Labour government had vigorously resisted all such overtures since 1945.

28 So we carried out a test very satisfactorily and then made overtures to land.

29 It was indicative of Franco's childishly egocentric view of politics that he now chose to ignore Allied overtures.

30 Now Surrey, a dicky bird tells me, are making overtures.

1 They began making overtures to the Irish government.

2 She spurned his overtures of love.

3 Their government is making overtures for peace.

4 All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.

31 F. Draw out overtures for discussion in inaugural meeting.

32 She repelled the overtures of fiiendshrp.

33 Many protested his overtures to the Israelis.

34 Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne is featured in a program of arias and overtures with Martin Katz conducting the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.

35 I routinely disregard business overtures and communications that have simple errors.

36 Before Libyans rose up against him, Muammar Gaddafi used money, and well-timed diplomatic overtures, to worm his way into the West's good graces.

37 But the White House believes it has been rebuffed in its earlier diplomatic overtures toward the North.

38 Stereotyped as huffy and inhospitable, the Shanghainese are downplaying these complaints on the one hand, and making subtle overtures on the other.

39 She defended President Obama's overtures towards Presidents Chavez in Venezuela, saying that efforts to isolate anti-American leaders had only made them more receptive to other powers.

40 So far, NYSE has adopted a "just say no" defense to Nasdaq and ICE's overtures, and Deutsche Boerse has shown no intention of changing its deal.

41 But the White House was stung by Pyongyang, which has snubbed its overtures.

42 I...made overtures to them about releasing me from my coming options.

43 The official Chechen leadership dismisses his overtures and says he should give himself up.

44 If only the West had been more responsive to his peace overtures in the fifties.

45 He said the NCP has refused to hold a consensus discussion despite the SPLM's peaceful overtures.

46 Not surprisingly, China's test of an antisatellite weapon in January 2007 – followed by the US Navy's downing of a crippled US spy satellite in February – chilled cooperative overtures.

47 Deceived...into thinking the bird harmless, the unsuspecting victim makes friendly overtures.

47 try its best to gather and create good sentences.

48 Debos says opposition parties will likely be wary of any overtures by the government.

49 The message was the main talking point across Iraqi media yesterday, where he was warmly received by civilians and officials who have largely embraced his overtures to the Islamic world.

50 But officials and outside analysts say the overtures are very preliminary.

51 But the synthetic nature of these overtures was quickly exposed, however.

52 Much less pro-American than Jiang, Huresponded respectfully but coolly to overtures from the Bush and the Obamaadministrations for a new and better relationship.

53 When it served his agenda, he even made overtures to thugs.

54 Britain forces Tibet to sign trading agreement in order to forestall any Russian overtures.