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.
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.
Motivated for years by corruption, self-interest and party interest, will Ecuador's politicians respond to such 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.
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.
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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In Israel, the mood is not to trust any of Hamas's cautious overtures.
He has received overtures from a group of dissident Peronists around Mr Duhalde, who became Mr Kirchner's most powerful foe.
He failed signally to take advantage of the overtures of the then Turkish leader, Turgut Ozal, in the late 1980s.
Economic overtures aside, however, Beijing is quickly gaining a global reputation as a no-nonsense bargainer where the internet is concerned.
As a 100% intuitive, I hear and latch on to any peace overtures, however, subtle, and I respond in kind.
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In 2002, Google quietly made overtures to several libraries at major universities.
Back in Pakistan, news of Junoon's peaceful overtures was heard as treason.
Mr Bersani has already started making overtures to Mr Grillo, both on the measures they might work on together and on positions.
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