One indisputable triumph was his collection of early Romantic overtures (EMI 749889).

His important early overtures are Rip Van Winkle, Melpomene, and Thalia.

Those early overtures were rebuffed by Mr. Davis, and Mr. Diller decided against a hostile bid.

The fledgling opposition groups scorned earlier overtures, unwilling to risk any appearance of collaboration that could damage their standing with voters.

"Le Corsaire," Berlioz's early overture, was splendidly done: playing of great elegance that was virtually lifted in the air by a corporate energy and grace.

But her early overtures to the rebels made little headway and were replaced by what some analysts now say was an overambitious, overextended military campaign that was distorted and weakened by the government's political agenda.

After worrisome early overtures toward Iran and Libya, the coalition has pursued pragmatic foreign policies, including close military cooperation with Israel and the United States.

Supermarkets was as critical of Dart's latest step as it had been of earlier overtures.

Suntory had made an earlier overture for a virtually unknown property and had been rebuffed.

Two early overtures survive from this period, Goetz de Berlichingen (1883) and Le Roi Lear (1883).