Mussolini was deposed and the new government made secret peace overtures.

The enemy aliens had so far ignored or rebuffed all peace overtures.

That wasn't an acknowledgment of your authority, it was a peace overture.

I turned to her, thinking that she was about to make peace overtures; but I was mistaken.

It was always she who made the peace overtures.

It could also look like unseemly overeagerness to discard any peace overture and simply get on with the war.

If there were to be peace overtures, they must come from France.

I've sent him a dozen peace overtures, but all he does is send me back the heads of my emissaries.

Then, and only then, will peace overtures be more palatable for both sides.

"I'm going to make a peace overture by gesture," he told the sword.