| The policy of detente was scrapped and the objective was increasingly to roll back the Soviet Union. |
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| For the neo-conservatives, Henry Kissinger's policy of arms control and detente with the Soviet Union smacked of appeasement. |
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| This cultural detente is the latest move in a warming trend exemplified by the successful joint hosting of the 2002 soccer World Cup. |
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| During the detente era, the Soviets were careful not to give the West too much propaganda ammunition. |
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| Under a classical arch a solitary halberdier bears witness to the historic detente between north and south. |
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| In 1972, detente allowed diplomatic relations and closer economic ties between East and West Germany. |
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| The description aptly described the new diplomacy of detente emerging from the 1972 super-power summit. |
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| During the Cold War there were periods of detente when arms control played a part in helping to enhance confidence between the adversaries. |
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| A brief detente and the hope for a lasting peace have given way to acrimony yet again. |
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| One would think that a leader who has brought about a historic detente with an arch-enemy would be cheered and feted by his people. |
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| In the West, critics of detente and arms control argued that the Soviets were acquiring nuclear superiority. |
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| The classic period of the first cold war runs from 1947 through the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which finally inaugurated an era of detente. |
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| The chief architects of the superpower detente were President Richard Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. |
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| I respect the arguments put forward by those who oppose these tests on the grounds that detente is here to stay, but I do not agree with them. |
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| Neither policies to promote detente, nor arms control nor diplomacy by themselves can prevent war. |
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| This wheel is spring mounted and will return to the center detente position when released. |
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| On-board chronometer, detente escapement, balance staff and escape wheel staff jewelled with diamonds, fusée chain. |
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| While he concludes with a proposal for detente, his own account shows that these disputes are likely to be as intractable as they are longstanding. |
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| So far Russia has been able to stymie further detente with Nato by delaying promised agreements on military co-operation and by threatening the arms control process. |
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| By the early 1970s detente had become the policy of the day. |
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| Each time the gun is fired, the tube must go into detente for cartridge ejection, and the power traverse of the turret is inoperable during ejection and reloading operations. |
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| His astute detente diplomacy with the Soviet Union, trying to make the world a safer place, gets high marks. |
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| This is one of the limitations its Iranian detente may soon run into, potentially threatening the cohesiveness of the anti-Isis coalition. |
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| Indeed, it is on Iran's borders that efforts at detente may start. Signals count for much. |
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| Today, there is genuine progress toward peaceful detente and greater co-operation among nations. |
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| Confrontation evolved into detente, which in itself was rapidly transformed into east-west co-operation on a full range of issues. |
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| The small minority of Iranians who dream of American intervention are the most apathetic of the lot. Since he was elected, Mr Bush has resisted detente in favour of co-operation on specific issues. |
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| The detente in Libya's international relations has had no impact on its internal policies and it continues to be one of the world's most repressive regimes as regards domestic critics. |
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| I would also like to emphatically underline the role to be played by the principle of detente and change through rapprochement in giving human rights and democracy issues priority. |
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| The current detente resulted from the election of a reformist leader, Hassan Rouhani, opposing the domestic chaos of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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| No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran. |
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| Peace and detente, Mazari added, have to be through mutuality of interests and desire. |
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| The two Koreas agreed to closely cooperate in efforts to put an end to hostile military relations and ensure detente on the Korean Peninsula. |
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| Statements made by the Russian leader, Mr. Vladimir Jirinovski, do not bode well for the future of detente in the event of a return to power of the military. |
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| Terrified by the knowledge that their nuclear armed missiles could destroy life on either side of the divide, Moscow and Washington sought detente rather than outright war. |
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| Another reason was certainly that Nixon's detente worked against Americans of Eastern European origins whose foreign policy claims were motivated by anticommunism. |
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| His Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, welcomed the announcement but said detente would not lead Cuba to change its single-party political system or centrally planned economy. |
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