Nixon's visit set in motion the rapprochement between Beijing and Washington.
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Charles too had a voice: the Astronomer credits him as well as Judith with the idea of a new rapprochement with Lothar.
Drummond, also an outsider, started Radio 3's rapprochement with the outside world.
He could have joined battle, lost, and opted for some face-saving rapprochement.
If the AlomarHirschbeck rapprochement were to be achieved, it would only be the latest in a growing apology fad.
In my view, scientists have a crucial role to play in the rapprochement of conventional and complementary medicine.
Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism.
The encouraging rapprochement between Tehran and London that we'd heard so much about the previous year was at an end.
Would there have been a rapprochement with John Kennedy?
the establishment of a good relationship between two countries or groups of people, after a period of unfriendly relationsrapprochement between/with I hope for a rapprochement between our two countries.