Eksempler på olive branch

• The hall was decorated with furnishings requisitioned from private palaces, as well as the banner of liberty topped by an olive branch.

• At the time the article was published this was something of an olive branch offered to those readers with an avant-garde past.

• He has thrown out what he calls an olive branch; he wants to try to find a middle line between conflicting views.

• It seems that here we have an olive branch offered to us.

• The olive branch has been held out by this side, and you have spurned it.

• I do not think it was an olive branch at all.

• They both regarded the release of these persons as an "olive branch" which might safely and prudently be held out at the present time.

• Already the waters are receding and shortly the dove will alight with the olive branch.