Overtures in a sentence

At times since Russia invaded Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic overtures have made some of his allies angry and wary of his intentions despite Paris providing substantial military and financial aid to Ukraine.

But when Lyle McCormack, a white boy (and the siblings’ occasional playmate), makes sexual overtures toward Gloria, Robert comes to her defense.

By the end of Day 2, the personas of cheating, exasperation, and humility take effect in disturbing overtures.

In any case the tax hikes as they are planned run counter to Center's worldview, Kiik added, while the coalition barely even acknowledged several overtures made by the opposition in attempting to resolve the impasse, he said.

In truth, the structural differences between Turkey and the Assad regime are gargantuan and cannot be overcome anytime soon, which helps explain why the Biden administration appears unfazed by Ankara’s overtures.

I’ve had many overtures to issuing more preferred.

Mark Zuckerberg once engaged in a strong (and personal) lobbying push to have Beijing allow Facebook to operate in China, including high-profile overtures to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The prior authorization process has created so much frustration, the Journal reports, that some state and federal regulators have made overtures of regulatory reform.

The recruits identified by Reuters volunteered to go to Russia to work for the military following overtures on social media from a recruiter who identified herself as “Dayana”.

The U.S. media system had turned into a propaganda system that dismissed the peaceful-coexistence overtures of the other side out of hand, relying simply on vilification and distortion as the standard response.

But former President Donald Trump's overtures to black men and some showing black male support for Harris is behind Biden's 2020 support have worried some Democrats with just three weeks until the election.

Despite Dodin's overtures over the years, however, they sleep in separate bedrooms and Eugénie resists his proposals to marry — matrimony comes in distant second to the art they create together.

This time last year, as Macron made overtures to keep Mbappe at PSG (he ultimately signed a one-year contract extension), he was also discreetly hosting Victor Wembanyama at the Elysee Palace just before the then 19-year-old’s first NBA draft.

Yet as she stares around her new, clean, impersonally beige room, she can’t help but feel her life has been hijacked, cast into a hostile unknown, however friendly the overtures of her new caregiver Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle).

As the election is coming closer the parties must act in accordance of the law and don’t spread false news and incite racial overtures.

As the White House started preparing for election year, the president's inner circle made overtures to Hicks about coming back to the White House, according to a former White House official familiar with the situation.

Bishops, pastors and lay leaders ought to make overtures to anti-racist activist groups present in their communities.

But opposition leader Benny Gantz and his centrist Blue and White party consider the offer insincere and have expressed skepticism over Netanyahu’s power-sharing overtures, concerned that he will not follow through on his promises to cede power.

Butterfield founded Slack in 2009, and the company reportedly has rebuffed previous acquisition overtures from Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

Despite these overtures in our national politics, that agenda never really has found any success at the federal level.