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  • We're getting a bit more into diplomacy now.†   (source)
  • I was born to diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy is a large part of being a trouper.†   (source)
  • In a town like this, where everyone lived on top of everyone else, diplomacy was essential.†   (source)
  • "It is true that Mr. Wandati is uniquely comfortable with solitude," I said, opting for cautious diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy prevailed, however, and she agreed to attend.†   (source)
  • It's a grief to see the best of Zairean genius and diplomacy spent on bare survival, while fortunes in diamonds and cobalt are slipped daily out from under our feet.†   (source)
  • The CIA and dollar diplomacy.†   (source)
  • I personally dislike the greasy dissimulation of diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Some relate to the arts of war and diplomacy.†   (source)
  • No one would ever claim that God gave Dad the gift of subtlety or diplomacy, at least not when he feels strongly about something, and especially when he feels strongly about something that involves one of his children.†   (source)
  • It did not worry her that many years after announcing the eve of his final vows, Jose Arcadio was still saying that he was waiting to finish his studies in advanced theology in order to undertake those in diplomacy, because she understood how steep and paved with obstacles was the spiral stairway that led to the throne of Saint Peter.†   (source)
  • He's gifted in diplomacy.†   (source)
  • He needs all his levelheadedness and diplomacy, as editor of the New Canadian, since that s the only paper left to us now.†   (source)
  • And thus my elders concerned themselves with all manner of things—strategy, diplomacy, politics, and Zionism—but not with their own fate.†   (source)
  • It was a depressing irony, for Gus had always been one to preach diplomacy with the red man and over the years had engaged in many councils that Call himself thought pointless.†   (source)
  • One learns, for instance, that the United States tried to help the French put down the Haitian revolution in the 1790s and, during the time of American slavery, refused to recognize Haiti and practiced gunboat diplomacy there.†   (source)
  • I studied diplomacy.†   (source)
  • "Well, we shall have to see about that," said her father with hopeless parental diplomacy.†   (source)
  • They were off to study diplomacy, while Max would be teaching his course on combat.†   (source)
  • He believes in diplomacy by "balance of fear."†   (source)
  • If he was untrained and inexperienced in diplomacy, so was every American.†   (source)
  • As many kings retained their thrones through diplomacy as through conquest, and it made more sense to acquiesce than to go through what would be a pointless loss of soldiers in the name of pride.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy isn't my strong suit.†   (source)
  • He'd been better with the diplomacy last night.†   (source)
  • "Not usually," Mortenson said, searching for diplomacy, "but women in our culture are free to choose any career."†   (source)
  • Still, I wonder, what opportunity for diplomacy did I miss, and did I overlook it because I was angry on your behalf?†   (source)
  • In the years after Rivonia, the ANC's External Mission, formerly responsible for fund-raising, diplomacy, and establishing a military training program, took up the reins of the organization as a whole.†   (source)
  • Even if he didn't, I'm sure you could be convincing in your diplomacy, in the concealment of your feelings.†   (source)
  • The nineteenth century, however, was the century of diplomacy.†   (source)
  • James Taggart let it be understood-in unfinished sentences and undefined hints-that his friends in Washington, whom he never named, wished to see a railroad line built in Mexico, that such a line would be of great help in matters of international diplomacy, that the good will of the public opinion of the world would more than repay Taggart Transcontinental for its investment.†   (source)
  • A good stay in our country is the best public diplomacy tool we have.†   (source)
  • Hard and tough and cool and together ....Oscar Johnson refused to back off from a claim that he was born and raised in center-city Detroit, where, he said, he first learned the principles of human diplomacy.†   (source)
  • "You should be taught some diplomacy!" he scolded.†   (source)
  • Maybe you should work on your diplomacy a little bit.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy by special ops?†   (source)
  • Obscure promises balanced by vague threats.... Diplomacy.†   (source)
  • "I was never trained for diplomacy," he said.†   (source)
  • My crash course in diplomacy had lasted a little over an hour.†   (source)
  • She added, "It makes great difference in how I handle the diplomacies."†   (source)
  • Blake told them to handle the Stones with oily diplomacy.†   (source)
  • In 1962, when he discovered that the Soviets were building offensive nuclear missile bases in Cuba, President Kennedy resisted calls for an immediate air strike and pursued a course of diplomacy that averted the catastrophe of nuclear war.†   (source)
  • A study in feminine diplomacy," Elise added.†   (source)
  • That wasn't what I would do if I were sending a diplomacy party into enemy territory.†   (source)
  • And not just in matters of international diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy was not something he was good at.†   (source)
  • There were also me for higher-level functions such as war, diplomacy, and religious ritual.†   (source)
  • He had always despised the diplomacy of these meetings.†   (source)
  • I'm out of Etiquette and Diplomacy this year—they changed my schedule.†   (source)
  • I doubted that laughing would be good diplomacy.†   (source)
  • His training hadn't been in fear and diplomacy; it had been in silence and stealth.†   (source)
  • He continued to read diplomacy and to devour the several newspapers that arrived with the dawn.†   (source)
  • We will be breaking the laws of international diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Has Sir Alistair retired?" she asked, referring to Rowan's expert on diplomacy and etiquette.†   (source)
  • The braymas are howling for war, not diplomacy.†   (source)
  • I have seldom been so sick to my stomach in my life, but I guess diplomacy is complicated.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy and morality were beyond them.†   (source)
  • It would be said they had won the greatest victory in the annals of American diplomacy.†   (source)
  • I lacked diplomacy and would not compromise.†   (source)
  • I was tempted to add especially when I am tied to a small child named Meg, but my natural diplomacy won out.†   (source)
  • And we thought this visit would be an excellent exercise for you all, especially since we've been so focused on diplomacy lately.†   (source)
  • When one has seen the horrors of a dirty little war ...as you have ...or sensed the degrading immorality of CIA dollar-diplomacy intervention ...as I have ...a rough landing pales into insignificance.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy is a large part of being a trouper, and a large portion of diplomacy is adherence to title and rank.†   (source)
  • It is a principle of diplomacy," Pelt observed, "that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly."†   (source)
  • The only thing I do know is that he was never caught, and our failure to catch him was a burden on our diplomacy throughout the Far East.†   (source)
  • My plan is for you to delay them by all possible means of trickery and diplomacy and hope that I can find a way to stop them.†   (source)
  • She didn't have time for diplomacy.†   (source)
  • It was a heavy, thronelike chair and came with heavy expectations—expectations concerning statecraft, diplomacy, and governance.†   (source)
  • But Paul agreed to take on Tomsk, provided that his role be mostly clinical, and that Jim assume the managerial chores and most of the diplomacy.†   (source)
  • I was also criticized at the conference for engaging in "personal diplomacy" and not keeping the rank-and-file of the organization informed.†   (source)
  • Not enough to convince the French and the British, but enough to exchange a few rounds with some pretty powerful people before being sent packing, for his brazen approach to diplomacy as much as anything.†   (source)
  • Call had taken the precaution of going with Old Hugh to two or three of the nearest Indian camps to meet the chiefs and do the usual diplomacy, in the hope of preventing the sort of surprise encounter that had proven deadly for Gus.†   (source)
  • "Everyone has said the administration would apply diplomacy in Vietnam," Cronkite begins, emphasizing the second syllable with a short letter a ("NAM" as in ram).†   (source)
  • It had originally been built for the meetings of the ten spokesmen, but as interest in the councils had died away, Cassius, skilled in diplomacy and not above using strong-arm tactics, had appropriated the palace as his official residence and moved the council hall to a vacant warehouse tucked away in a remote corner of the city.†   (source)
  • "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name," as the rest of her guard rose up from the grass behind their captain.†   (source)
  • Untrained in diplomacy and by temperament seemingly so unsuited for it, he had indeed succeeded brilliantly, as others and history would attest.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy, he was fond of saying, is the art of persuasion; and war—never citing his sources—is simply diplomacy continued through other means ....He spoke of Detroit in affectionate generalities: Coonsville, MoTown, Sin City.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy and data and personal charm, he seemed to say, could win over all sides, and unite all factions against the bacillus, their common enemy after all.†   (source)
  • Rafi was astounded not to be able to hear the music over a dozen furiously whispered debates on the diplomacy of AustriaHungary, for in Venice the music was drowned out by talk of sex and money.†   (source)
  • I remember watching one old professor speak long and eloquently on U.S. diplomacy and the legacy of mistrust this country had sown in the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and as he would talk he would reach up to clutch the lapels of his robe, a robe that was not there.†   (source)
  • With lists of recommended books—French dictionaries, grammars, works of literature, histories of diplomacy—he went to one Paris bookseller after another until he had them all, and more.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy—in my emperor's name.†   (source)
  • Franklin's concept of diplomacy was to ask for nothing that Vergennes would not give, be grateful for whatever help the French provided, and remain ever accommodating and patient.†   (source)
  • To Franklin fell the unpleasant duty of breaking the news to Ver-gennes, and fortunately so, as in the parlance of diplomacy, it was a "delicate" moment.†   (source)
  • He was risking his life and that of his small son, risking capture and who knew what horrors and indignities as a prisoner, all to begin "new business" for which he felt ill suited, knowing nothing of European politics or diplomacy and unable to speak French, the language of diplomacy.†   (source)
  • By breaking the rules of diplomatic convention—by embarking on his own on what he called "militia diplomacy"—he was, he knew, risking ridicule and enmity, and, in the event that things went sour, disgrace.†   (source)
  • As for criticism of his own vanity or of his "militia diplomacy," he wrote: "The charge of vanity is the last resort of little wits and mercenary quacks, the vainest men alive, against me and measures that they can find no other objection to...I have long since learned that a man may give offense and yet succeed."†   (source)
  • public energy and the security of the sacred liberties of his country...Deeply versed in legal lore, profoundly skilled in political science; joined to the advantage of forty years' unceasing engagement in the turbulent and triumphant scenes, both at home and in Europe, which have marked our history; learned in the language and arts of diplomacy; more conversant with the views, jealousies, resources, and intrigues of Great Britain, France and Holland than any other American; alike aloof to flattery and vulgar ambition, as above all undue control [he has as] ....his sole object ....the present freedom and independence of his country and its future glory.†   (source)
  • Lamar became well read in diplomacy and the law, but he was also passionately fond of light literature, as several correspondents discovered years later when they assisted Lamar in gathering several books which had accidentally spilled from his official briefcase as he entered the White House for a Cabinet meeting.†   (source)
  • For reasons of diplomacy Kumalo decided first to go to the chief.†   (source)
  • It had taken all of Melanie's diplomacy to persuade them to defer their decision.†   (source)
  • French, the language of diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's was the masterful diplomacy to hold such a coalition together, carry it into power, and with it win a war.†   (source)
  • The group had two hours to wait between trains and, as it was taxing the diplomacy of the sober members of the party to keep the Fontaines from fighting each other and perfect strangers in the depot, Ashley brought them all home to Aunt Pittypat's.†   (source)
  • Few women even now have been graded at the universities; the great trials of the professions, army and navy, trade, politics and diplomacy have hardly tested them.†   (source)
  • "Majesty, whatever actuated you, it was a stroke of diplomacy," replied her brother.†   (source)
  • 'Brown's object was to gain time by fooling with Kassim's diplomacy.†   (source)
  • We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.†   (source)
  • O, a jesuit for your life, for diplomacy!†   (source)
  • But even Paul lightened when Willis Ijams, a salesman with poetry and diplomacy, discussed flies.†   (source)
  • Course they got to go some to beat you in business diplomacy, but I just mean with women.†   (source)
  • but I don't know that diplomacy is your strong point.†   (source)
  • Kim was with the kiltas, and in the kiltas lay eight months of good diplomacy.†   (source)
  • I should like to be a diplomatist; but American diplomacy—that's not for gentlemen either.†   (source)
  • Amongst these may be reckoned war and diplomacy.†   (source)
  • The Prefect was fond of the cant of diplomacy.†   (source)
  • She was ashamed of her own diplomacy.†   (source)
  • A man couldn't break off with a girl as he was trying to do, or at least might want to, without exercising some little tact or diplomacy, could he?†   (source)
  • To find an office took a fortnight of diplomacy, and of discussion brightening three meals a day, every day.†   (source)
  • That sly little fox over there is nothing but a spy, I'll warrant, and you'll find—an I'm much mistaken, that he'll concern himself little with such diplomacy, beyond trying to do mischief to royalist refugees—to our heroic Scarlet Pimpernel and to the members of that brave little league.†   (source)
  • As they stepped into the machine he hurriedly slapped the paint of diplomacy over a rather box-like plan he had conceived.†   (source)
  • That's the trouble with women, that's why they don't make high-class executives; they haven't any sense of diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.†   (source)
  • Aren't you in diplomacy?†   (source)
  • There is a naive side, I suppose, in all diplomacy; but if my pupils practiced upon me, it was surely with the minimum of grossness.†   (source)
  • She gave two or three sighs, for the stooping posture hurt her back, and, for all her diplomacy, she felt that she was growing old.†   (source)
  • So much so that even marriage, assuming that her family might not prove too inimical and that her infatuation and diplomacy endured, might not be beyond the bounds of possibility.†   (source)
  • And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism—two different forms of the same self-abdication.†   (source)
  • Kassim, left behind, had attended the council with his air of diligent activity to explain away the diplomacy of the day before.†   (source)
  • A budding instinct for diplomacy helped her in this instance, and she replied: "I've noticed your sign in passing several times and I've heard different people say you were a good doctor."†   (source)
  • They were two hundred to one—he thought, while his men, huddling round two heaps of smouldering embers, munched the last of the bananas and roasted the few yams they owed to Kassim's diplomacy.†   (source)
  • For the very precarious condition in which he found himself was sufficiently terrifying to evoke more diplomacy than ever before had characterized him.†   (source)
  • He sighed: "When I feel punk and—" He was about to bring in the tragedy of Paul, but that was too sacred even for the diplomacy of love.†   (source)
  • It was supposed that the Babbitt-Thompson Company were merely agents for Glen Oriole, serving the real owner, Jake Offutt, but the fact was that Babbitt and Thompson owned sixty-two per cent. of the Glen, the president and purchasing agent of the Zenith Street Traction Company owned twenty-eight per cent., and Jake Offutt (a gang-politician, a small manufacturer, a tobacco-chewing old farceur who enjoyed dirty politics, business diplomacy, and cheating at poker) had only ten per cent., which Babbitt and the Traction officials had given to him for "fixing" health inspectors and fire inspectors and a member of the State Transportation Commission.†   (source)
  • Again I call out all my diplomacy, and again as soon as the thing was about at an end, our friend the government clerk gets hot and red, and his sausages stand on end with wrath, and once more I launch out into diplomatic wiles.†   (source)
  • The effect on this rude being of the forest was an exclamation of surprise; then such a smile of courtesy, and wave of the hand, succeeded, as would have done credit to Asiatic diplomacy.†   (source)
  • "Well, Fernand, I must say," said Caderousse, beginning the conversation, with that brutality of the common people in which curiosity destroys all diplomacy, "you look uncommonly like a rejected lover;" and he burst into a hoarse laugh.†   (source)
  • With his usual frankness and delicacy he told Mrs. Haggistoun that he would give her a cheque for five thousand pounds on the day his son was married to her ward; and called that proposal a hint, and considered it a very dexterous piece of diplomacy.†   (source)
  • "But, however that may be," resumed the nephew, glancing at him with deep distrust, "I know that your diplomacy would stop me by any means, and would know no scruple as to means."†   (source)
  • The fruit of Mrs. Yeobright's diplomacy was indeed remarkable, though not as yet of the kind she had anticipated.†   (source)
  • He combined his stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman.†   (source)
  • Loving a man or hating him, his diplomacy was as wrongheaded as a buffalo's; and his wife had not ventured to suggest the course which she, for many reasons, would have welcomed gladly.†   (source)
  • Instead of our present relations with Mexico—instead of the serious risks which have been run, and those plausibilities of opprobrium which we have had to combat, not without great difficulty, nor with entire success—instead of the difficulties which now throng the path to a satisfactory settlement of all our unsettled questions with Mexico—Texas might, by a more judicious and conciliatory diplomacy, have been as securely in the Union as she is now—her boundaries defined—California probably ours—and Mexico and ourselves united by closer ties than ever; of mutual friendship and mutual support in resistance to the intrusion of European interference in the affairs of the American republics.†   (source)
  • It's a beautiful Utopian dream of the abolition of war, diplomacy, banks, and so on—something after the fashion of socialism, indeed.†   (source)
  • With his son, however, he employed the diplomacy he reserved for important occasions and, adopting a quiet tone, discussed the whole matter.†   (source)
  • For though the French commander bore a high character for courage and enterprise, he was also thought to be expert in those political practises which do not always respect the nicer obligations of morality, and which so generally disgraced the European diplomacy of that period.†   (source)
  • Thus consider the greater part of Voltaire's tragedies; they are cleverly strewn with philosophical reflections, that made them a vast school of morals and diplomacy for the people.†   (source)
  • He laughed blandly at her naive diplomacy but listened to what she had to say, and sometimes questioned her carefully about the Penza and Nizhegorod estates.†   (source)
  • Well, you must become a diplomatist; diplomacy, you know, is something that is not to be acquired; it is instinctive.†   (source)
  • The fact is, it was a triumph of British diplomacy, the French party having proposed and tried their utmost to carry a marriage with a Princess of the House of Potztausend-Donnerwetter, whom, as a matter of course, we opposed.†   (source)
  • On the other hand the Huron resumed his seat by the side of his prisoner, the one continuing to ask questions with all the wily ingenuity of a practised Indian counsellor, and the other baffling him by the very means that are known to be the most efficacious in defeating the finesse of the more pretending diplomacy of civilization, or by confining his answers to the truth, and the truth only.†   (source)
  • He intoned a line or two of Court Persian, which is the language of authorized and unauthorized diplomacy.†   (source)
  • Often, in the midst of his gravest souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do?†   (source)
  • With reference to diplomacy, all Napoleon's arguments as to his magnanimity and justice, both to Tutolmin and to Yakovlev (whose chief concern was to obtain a greatcoat and a conveyance), proved useless; Alexander did not receive these envoys and did not reply to their embassage.†   (source)
  • Then they met Sikandar Khan coming down with a few unsaleable screws—remnants of his string—and Mahbub, who has more of horse-coping in his little fingernail than Sikandar Khan in all his tents, must needs buy two of the worst, and that meant eight hours' laborious diplomacy and untold tobacco.†   (source)
  • But she was still young and incapable of hiding her feelings; and by inviting her papa and sister to her third-rate parties, and behaving very coldly to them when they came, and by avoiding Russell Square, and indiscreetly begging her father to quit that odious vulgar place, she did more harm than all Frederick's diplomacy could repair, and perilled her chance of her inheritance like a giddy heedless creature as she was.†   (source)
  • Well, you soon become tired of singing, and you take a fancy to study diplomacy with the minister's secretary.†   (source)
  • These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbes rather than priests, prelates rather than bishops.†   (source)
  • By diplomacy and success in arms he became almost supreme ruler of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory.†   (source)
  • As, to my Lord Gaunt's dismay, and the chuckling delight of his natural enemy and father, the Lady Gaunt had no children—the Lord George Gaunt was desired to return from Vienna, where he was engaged in waltzing and diplomacy, and to contract a matrimonial alliance with the Honourable Joan, only daughter of John Johnes, First Baron Helvellyn, and head of the firm of Jones, Brown, and Robinson, of Threadneedle Street, Bankers; from which union sprang several sons and daughters, whose doings do not appertain to this story.†   (source)
  • It is almost dinner-time, and I had to use no little diplomacy to get rid of my watchful mother-in-law, my too-devoted maid, and my troublesome brother, who is always teasing me about coming to work at my embroidery, which I am in a fair way never to get done.†   (source)
  • Well, when you see me giving you—" Somewhat later, after diplomacies, Ted persuaded Verona to admit that she was merely going to the Armory, that evening, to see the dog and cat show.†   (source)
  • The customer joined him in the worship of machinery, and they came buoyantly up to the tenement and began that examination of plastic slate roof, kalamein doors, and seven-eighths-inch blind-nailed flooring, began those diplomacies of hurt surprise and readiness to be persuaded to do something they had already decided to do, which would some day result in a sale.†   (source)
  • Nothing could exceed the brilliancy of such inventions as /joy-ride/, /high-brow/, /road-louse/, /sob-sister/, /nature-faker/, /stand-patter/, /lounge-lizard/, /hash-foundry/, /buzz-wagon/, /has-been/, /end-seat-hog/, /shoot-the-chutes/ and /grape-juice-diplomacy/.†   (source)
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