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Example sentences for: overtures

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An article lambastes recent Democratic Party overtures to Bill Weld.
Among other things, the piece says that President Johnson (and President Kennedy before him) sounded out the Soviet Union on heading off China's nuclear capabilities, but the Soviet Union flatly ignored the overtures.
An editorial mocks the overtures white politicians make to minorities: Republicans are "dorky and patronizing;" Bradley is "schoolmarmy" and self-righteous; Gore is "cartoonish"; and none is serious about dismantling the racial and ethnic classifications that still plague American law.
(Reed has also made overtures toward black churches, home to America's most committed social conservatives.
Big companies such as General Motors have already spurned overtures for cash.