Example sentences for: rapprochement

How can you use “rapprochement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On its editorial page, Le Monde published an analysis of the situation in Iran, holding out little hope of a real rapprochement between the West and Iran following its reaffirmation of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the death sentence passed recently on a German for having sexual relations with a Muslim woman.

  • A l-Khaleej , a daily from the United Arab Emirates, claimed Thursday that the United States helped Turkey capture its most wanted man, the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, in exchange for Turkey abandoning its policy of rapprochement with Iraq.

  • Rapprochement or not, the Financial Times of London reported from Moscow that vehement opposition to NATO's actions in Yugoslavia is "the most consensual issue in Russian politics today."

  • "With the kind of wise and democratic leadership that now exists in Jakarta--and hopefully in the near future also in Dili--there is every reason to believe that a rapprochement is possible."

  • Partly because of China's Cold War value as a rival of the Soviet Union, partly because Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger started the rapprochement, partly because the American business establishment has embraced China so enthusiastically, and partly for reasons that remain mysterious, the Republican Party has had a soft spot for the world's largest Communist regime for almost three decades.


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