| The overtures did not divert tens of thousands from marching against the government. |
| Instead it gets bogged down in motions and amendments, addendums and deliverances, overtures and the like. |
| At the end of the table a greybeard makes heavy overtures, mirthfully spied upon from a window above, to a half-protesting matron. |
| Yeltsin had made repeated overtures to the Chechens to preserve Russia's territorial integrity. |
| These include a lickety-split Don Giovanni, a disc of Beethoven overtures, and Brahms's Third and Fourth Symphonies. |
| Largely unnoted amid the sound and fury are several peace overtures in the White Paper. |
