How to Use "overture" with Example Sentences

1. Every peace overture , every admonition against disproportionate military force , is attributed to sharett 's vision and inspiration .
2. Washington and seoul , however , have been lukewarm to beijing 's overture , worried that it could appear to be rewarding pyongyang for its provocative actions .
3. Yahoo rebuffed microsoft 's most recent overture little more than a week ago , after failing to agree terms for an acquisition by the software company earlier this year .
4. Yet robert barnett , a tibet expert at columbia university in new york , points out that there is nothing new in china 's rejection of mr sangay 's overture .
5. President ahmadinejad , facing an election battle of his own in june 2009 , responded by calling for an apology for decades of american misdeeds , but did not explicitly reject the overture .