make overtures to something

"Not with the Council as a whole, but individuals have made overtures."

When she was twelve a young man began making overtures to her.

It wouldn't have been the first time a woman had made overtures to him.

But I've made overtures, and he just - goes to ice on me.

But several drug makers said they were already making quiet overtures on their own.

In fact, I had once or twice let myself be tempted into making overtures to her.

Earlier the Administration had made overtures to a number of others.

We see students still getting jobs over the summer, but it means making overtures to companies now.

We believe it is still too early to make overtures to these two countries.

King makes sexual overtures to him and they get intimate.