Already the army's been taken aback by overtures to India made by Mr Zardari.
Mr Khatami probably agrees but, so far, he has not dared go beyond tentative verbal overtures.
Rovers kept hold of striker Roque Santa Cruz in January despite overtures from Manchester City.
Mr Baradar had been making overtures directly to Hamid Karzai's government in Kabul bypassing Pakistan.
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The Europeans have consulted repeatedly with America as they have made their diplomatic overtures.
Hollywood began to make overtures to Silicon Valley, which produced some collaborative ventures inevitably tagged Siliwood.
They would again make overtures to meet with Juan Miguel and, of course, Elian.
He kept a German one at Termiz and is making new overtures to the West.
Mr Netanyahu and his lieutenants will be making relentless overtures to winkle them away.
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But the White House believes it has been rebuffed in its earlier diplomatic overtures toward the North.
ETA, which despite its bombings has been weakened by recent arrests, announced its support for Batasuna's overtures.
President Obama made great overtures last year toward passing free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
The global nature of the economic downturn seems to have squashed overtures from Indian, Chinese, and Russian buyers.
But, he says Preval has well respected advisors and has made overtures to business leaders and opposition parties.
And I think that as I continue to make these overtures, over time hopefully that will be reciprocated.
In one instance, a female manager was forced to quit when her boss would not stop making overtures.
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Much was made of the fact that the German chancellor's office has made no official overtures to Hollande.
America has also made overtures to erstwhile enemies in its desperation to get hold of any useful information.
John Kerry helpfully filled in the blanks about the nature of the Obama administration's overtures to nuclear-proliferating Damascus.
Pervez Musharraf, who torpedoed Mr. Sharif's overtures to India by launching an unauthorized military operation in the disputed Kashmir.
But U.S. officials rebuffed those overtures, saying Gross had not spied in Cuba.
But the White House was stung by Pyongyang, which has snubbed its overtures.
On the flipside of things, BankUnited (BKU) is down almost 12% after appearing to reject overtures from potential acquirers.
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Mr Mittal says he has received similar overtures from such firms as Daimler-Chrysler and Whirlpool, which makes household appliances.
But is the Bush administration ready, or willing, to respond to these overtures?
In fact, the intensity of Russia's overtures appears to have spooked not only Western observers but Mr Yanukovich too.
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Indeed, despite North Korea's recent diplomatic overtures, doubts remain about its real motives.
The Iranians now depict him as dishonest and his overtures as a sham.
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