How To Use Diplomat In A Sentence

The officials and diplomats spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the negotiations on what tack to take on Iran.
To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.
Diplomatic negotiations often aim at a zero-sum game.
The statement affirmed the two countries' willingness to maintain their diplomatic, economic and military ties.
Here retired US diplomat Ellsworth Bunker drew up a plan to transfer the administrative authority for West Papua from the Netherlands to a neutral administrator, and thence to Indonesia.

The Kremlin is still insisting on a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
This performance was supposed to be a highlight of the events celebrating 40 years of diplomatic relationships between China and France.
Japan should recognize it needs to recalibrate its diplomatic strategy to meet changing realities in the region.
He started his official career as a diplomat.
The son of a diplomat, he has spent much of his life globe-trotting.
A diplomatic source said: 'The irony is that the royal family has used oil to slow down social change. Times, Sunday Times
Gesturing with one fleshy, clawless manus toward his shorter, more cranially hairy companion, he added, And this is my senior diplomatic officer, Commander Deanna Troi. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
Oh, we've been very diplomatic but in the face of a deliberate and concerted political campaign the issues get muddied.
Next thing you know, you're on your way to Athens to work as a live-in for a diplomat's family.
The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation.
Now it seems that pressure from foreign diplomats and top officials could turn the tide.
In playing the diplomat, has he always spoken truth to power - including the powers within his own ecclesial community? The best path to peace | Savitri Hensman
Nevertheless the political and diplomatic links which bound her to the rest of the continent were slowly multiplying and becoming stronger.
European diplomats and Croatian officials also claim Britain is doing Washington's bidding.
Yet, he was most diplomatic in his dealings with people of other persuasions, always respecting their views and loyalties.
What has historically happened to diplomatic services when nations have been unified?
The diplomatic stoush over whaling is intensifying.
Those key players include representatives of peak industry and business groups, diplomats and influential negotiators and go-betweens on the trade talk circuit.
One senior European diplomat said that it was a one-sided account. Times, Sunday Times
He was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else.
The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.
This week, at a meeting attended by government ministers, provincial governors, traditional chiefs, health experts, the commander of the Zimbabwe's defence forces, diplomats and the media, the government announced what it called a nationwide blitz to control, cure and eliminate the disease. Caroline Gluck: A National Blitz to Control Cholera in Zimbabwe
The Holy Roman Empire ever since the first event of Charles the Great's coronation, when it justified itself as a diplomatical expedient for unifying Western Christendom, had existed more or less as a shadow. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
But there were no outward signs that diplomatic efforts would soon defuse the fighting.
His diplomatic role ensured unfettered access to leading players. The Sun
Leaked U. S. diplomatic cables show that the United States and Germany allegedly are developing together a spy satellite system despite strong opposition from countries such as France.
Imagine what chagrin we can bring to this nation if we were to sneer or giggle at a visiting diplomat from say Nigeria or India!
Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about.
He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war.
Formal talks for normalizing diplomatic relations have been suspended since October 2002.
He pulled off a major diplomatic coup by winning agreement from all the warring factions on a permanent ceasefire.
If the President signes on to any plan that in any cuts into social security or medicare, including fuding the cpi number, and especially under such undiplomatic circumstances of the terrorist tactics of the Republicans to simply do what governments always do, raise the debt limit. News - latimes.com
In hushed tones, art aficionados, painters and the odd diplomat discussed the question of the day. Times, Sunday Times
While he is always friendly, even jovial in a blokeish high-fiving way (his English having got better as my French gets worse) he tends to be infuriatingly circumspect and diplomatic.
THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN: Yes, but they're all unfolding at the same time -- educate, diplomatize, and prepare. Press Briefing By Mccurry And Campbell
In Washington, Hoyos said that roughly 1,500 rebels are hiding out in Venezuela and he showed fellow diplomats numerous aerial photographs of what he identified as rebel camps on Venezuelan territory. Venezuela Severs Diplomatic Ties With Colombia
This was despite requests from Churchill and the British Royal Family that the king be granted greater diplomatic privileges.
The diplomats at the foreign ministry do not count for much. Times, Sunday Times
The United States says Davis acted in self-defense and is a diplomat who should be released immediately under international conventions.
Egypt has had full diplomatic relations with Israel since the 1979 Camp David peace accords were signed by former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
They hailed the signing of the agreement as a major diplomatic triumph.
His admission that he was ‘disappointed’ was a diplomatic understatement.
But do politicians appreciate the value of the diplomatic enterprise?
His books on diplomatic history were eminently readable.
A good secretary needs to be efficient, and above all diplomatic.
But socially he was entirely at home in those Third Republic salons where politicians mixed with aristocrats, diplomats, and writers.
Instead, diplomats, politicians and even the media in Pakistan have joined hands in calling brutalities against the Baloch as "Pakistan's internal matter. Malik Siraj Akbar: Pakistan Vs. Balochistan
Power is the great aphrodisiac---Henry Alfred Kissinger, German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
It isn't their diplomatic style to commit themselves on such a delicate issue.
Diplomatic overtures are also being made to France, Canada and Japan as well as to ASEAN countries.
As a career diplomat, one might well expect him to tilt the British way.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, the priapic bishop of Autun who became France's diplomat for all seasons he served and survived both the Revolution and Napoleon, famously remarked that no one who had not lived during the ancien régime could have any idea of how sweet life could be. Why They All Came to Versailles
Fearey had all the charm and urbanity of the trained diplomat.
But diplomats in Kinshasa are beginning to sound queasy.
The looming enforced removal of Mr Ozberk, 30, has the makings of a diplomatic incident.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Charles de Gaulle
One is the diplomatic sensitivity about upsetting Japan after the worst earthquake and tsunami in its history. Times, Sunday Times
The ruling stipulated that only diplomats and servicemen posted abroad will be allowed to vote, by mail.
So I think diplomatics and businesspeople worldwide from the U.S. who are traveling have got to raise their level of individual protective measures. CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2002
The Japanese government, Roosevelt, and some Japan officers in the State Department all proposed abandoning the search for a comprehensive agreement in favor of negotiating a temporary agreement, what the diplomats called a modus vivendi from the Latin, a way of living. Interpretations of American History
Twenty-five remaining African and Latin American countries recognize Taiwan diplomatically instead of China.
the worsened diplomatic relations
I used beauty,' she says of her diplomatic technique. Times, Sunday Times
Here is John Simmonds, our Diplomatic Editor, with the latest news.
Salisbury sent him on a diplomatic mission to North America.
It was an outrageous action, the worst violation of the basic principle of diplomatic immunity in modern history.
Further action may be necessary if the leaders do not yield to diplomatic pressure .
The consul's comments were a major diplomatic gaffe.
He is expected to go further with the effort to "refashion" foreign policy by opening up more senior Whitehall and diplomatic positions to outside experts rather than career civil servants. ITN Headlines
Tomorrow's meeting between the two leaders is expected to break a diplomatic stalemate that has lasted for ten years.
Premier Liu Chao-shiuan said during a interpellation session in parliament that he would not rule out going to war with Japan, if Taipei and Tokyo fail to resolve the dispute over the Diaoyutai islands through diplomatic actions. Fishing Boat Accident Increases Tension over Disputed Islands
My uncle entered upon a diplomatic career at the age of thirty-five.
In other words, Bulgaria will again have to diplomatically maneuver and make its choice in a vulnerable situation.
Obviously if they are, that changes the whole dynamics, but if it goes on for a couple more weeks and then it kind of cools off, then you go back to the usual long-term diplomatic strategy. CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2008
In Chongqing, Joe sought out contacts who could introduce him to the upper levels of the government and diplomatic corps.
The embassy official claimed diplomatic immunity and was later released.
At the onset of the Second World War, the young diplomat was seconded from the Foreign Office to Number 10 Downing Street. Democracy vs. Hypocrisy
Egypt's new government presents the policy shift as part of a general diplomatic reopening, rather than a reordering, of its regional relationships. Egyptians Court U.S. Foes
A legislator disclosed to reporters recent attempts to seek new diplomatic allies - an issue normally deemed top secret.
He is thought to be considering a last-ditch diplomatic effort to curb construction before January. Times, Sunday Times
The country will start building a nuclear reactor in June that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, diplomats said Wednesday.
Joe Gentile of the Metropolitan Police Department said that police investigate diplomatic crime fully, and they do issue citations to diplomats.
His diplomatic approach and concern for the staff ensured a smooth changeover.
One diplomat said the anti-war camp in fact raised no objections to his proposal last week partly out of deference to his more emollient tone on their plans for European Union defence.
All Herbert scholars will welcome Mario Di Cesare's stunning diplomatic edition of the Bodleian Manuscript.
The US is also intensifying diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. Times, Sunday Times
Western diplomats said there was little hope of brokering a end to the conflict without his blessing. Times, Sunday Times
By no means should a diplomatic plane with the president be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country. Times, Sunday Times
Industry officials and diplomats in Guinea on Monday would discuss the find here only on condition of anonymity.
In the undiplomatic language of my old neighborhood, put up or shut up.
Maybe being diplomatic and tactful would work better. The Sun
An error in the translation nearly caused a diplomatic incident.
Instead of saying that the country is readying its most seasoned diplomats and lawyers to rebuff the claims, it highlighted the deployment of its aging fleet to protect an empty sea.
It's to provide security services for US diplomats, officials and others once assigned to the military at around six times the cost and can be up to $1200 per man-day. Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide
While Currie is extremely polite and diplomatic, it is clear he finds these frustrating and unhelpful.
Although an individual transporting a diplomatic pouch may have diplomatic immunity, that individual and his or her nondiplomatic accessible property and checked baggage must undergo screening and all alarms must be resolved. Wired Top Stories
Pujols, initially upset over the snub, is now diplomatic in his comments, but he thinks team performance should be the top factor considered. AL notes: MVP talk on the agenda
she declined the invitation undiplomatically
The news will come as a blow in London where senior officials and diplomats believed a new resolution was possible by last week.
It is quite disturbing to note that two countries with such a close relationship since the time when General De Gaulle decided to open diplomatic ties with the People's Republic in 1964.
Kumar's diplomatic finesse wins him high marks from the board.
The next step could be the establishment of diplomatic relations between Washington and Pyongyang. Times, Sunday Times
Robson said discussions would take place about the form that diplomatic relations with Afghanistan would take.
Lobbying foreign governments to subvert the diplomatic efforts of a sitting president is something ex-presidents simply do not do.
She was just a little offended by the implications in his words and was suddenly bored with his arrogance and decided to get rid all the noble-sounding, diplomatic and politic speeches.
The disputes should have been quickly resolvable through diplomatic channels.
They tried by diplomatic maneuvers to obtain an agreement.
His job as a diplomat was a blind for his spying.
The countries do not have formal diplomatic relations. Times, Sunday Times
A cadre of diplomats and technocrats would concentrate on opening economic doors - and making sure they stayed open.
Within weeks of taking up the position she demanded 50,000 of public money for a lavish garden party for diplomats. The Sun
KELEMEN: What McCain called a feckless agreement, the Turks see as a starting point for a diplomatic way out of the dispute over Iran's suspect nuclear program. Turkey Offers U.S. A Diplomatic Channel To Iran
The insurgent group posted a statement on its English-language Web site Tuesday that linked the longtime diplomat's demise to what it called a failing war. Taliban blames Holbrooke death on war 'failures'
Economic sanctions, the cultural and sporting boycotts, and diplomatic isolation must be maintained and intensified.
The US has broken off diplomatic relations with the regime.
He caused a diplomatic incident by renaming the dog Dougal; the French deemed this a slur on Charles de Gaulle.
The attack came as new diplomatic initiative was being launched in New York.
A strategy of disengagement would require bold, risk-taking statecraft of a high order, and much diplomatic competence in its execution.
The son of a diplomat, he has spent much of his life globe-trotting.
Within weeks of taking up the position she demanded 50,000 of public money for a lavish garden party for diplomats. The Sun
After graduation he was appointed to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs as a cadet diplomat.
Hempel was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else.
It is being discussed on the diplomatic circuit and it will no doubt bubble up at Westminster.
Once North Korea come clean about this, says a diplomat, Japan will show the greatest flexibility.
Unless a compromise could be reached the country would be diplomatically isolated on this issue.
Historical interpretation of medieval English documents and records requires a reading knowledge of Latin and French and training in philology, paleography, and diplomatics, as well as in history.
Such an attitude is a powerful weapon in diplomatical and actual warfare, and it must be resorted to, if the necessity arises. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe
Japan and North Korea are scheduled to hold the next round of talks on normalizing diplomatic relations later this month, possibly in Beijing.
This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts.
And it can win friends and influence people, at home and overseas, in a way that a show of force or diplomatic bluster might not. Times, Sunday Times
The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.
In fact India's gurus have done much a better job than its politicians and diplomats, in projecting the country's image abroad.
A life's work such as that of Professor Charlotte Angas Scott is worth more to the world than many anxious efforts of diplomatists.
South African diplomat Francis Moloi discussed how his Ambassadorial Scholarship changed the course of his life.
China -- Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, and all buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, munitions or warships, wireless plants, and other property (except diplomatic) in the German concessions of Tientsin and Hankow and in other Chinese territory except Kiaochow, and agrees to return to China at her own expense all the astronomical instruments seized in 1901. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
The school is set to make an official complaint through diplomatic channels. The Sun
blowpipe" weapons to a SA diplomat in France, three SA diplomats leave France before a deadline set by the French Government. ANC Daily News Briefing
When Japan and South Korea normalized diplomatic relations in 1965, Tokyo provided Seoul with $500 million, a substantial sum at the time, in grants and loans.
He has heightened his isolation by spurning diplomatic initiatives from African neighbours and launching a crackdown on local media.
The leader's aggressive stance seems to have foreclosed any chance of diplomatic compromise.
In that same vote, Israel abstained, apparently fearing international interference with their own outlaw nuclear weapons program, and Britain abstained in an act of diplomatic fealty to the “special relationship” between Tony Blair and George Bush. Think Progress » The Pictures of Corruption: How Hastert Used Tax Dollars to Turn a $1.5 Million Profit
JOHNSON: Charles has what I refer to as diplomatic immunity. CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2005
LUSAKA - Angola's UNITA movement has accepted a government offer of places in a new Luanda administration, an African diplomat monitoring the Angolan peace talks in Lusaka said. ANC Daily News Briefing
The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country.
Henceforth UK interests were to be the concern of a British diplomatic agent styled the British High Commissioner.
Considerable diplomatic efforts were by now under way to end the fighting, though only one intervention now bore fruit.
With an annual membership fee of 6,000 ngultrum, roughly $130, Bhutan's golfers are mostly limited to the upper echelons of society - government officials and diplomats, plus a few stray Japanese tourists.
Formal diplomatic relations between the two countries were re-established in December.
A Canadian diplomat is blunt: "Things are going worse for us than they have during the past four or five years - the Taliban controls more of our territory than before, and we have made no progress at all on corruption. Archive 2009-04-01
After all, the US had broken Japan's diplomatic codes and could sometimes decode messages faster than the Japanese themselves.
Peter the Great's notorious visit to London in 1698 inaugurated the new century in a diplomatic, economic and cultural manner.
The guards were given a block diplomatic visa as part of the official Chinese delegation. The Sun
But diplomats close to the agency said it appeared to be a design for the core of a nuclear warhead.
An informal beginning to the Afghan "rollout" -- D. C.-speak for a coordinated but segmented sales job of a new initiative to Congress, the media and diplomats of other nations -- will come in Brussels tomorrow, when Holbrooke will brief NATO allies privately on the strategic review ordered by Obama. The Torch
A demarche is a formal communication -- typically delivered in person by a diplomat based oversees to a foreign government -- that sets out his or her country's views, for example to protest against a policy or action. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
Ben Elissar shared the landmark diplomatic twist with dinner guests last Friday.
The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.
We should muscle our diplomatic approach.
The Japanese diplomat was careful not to overplay his hand during the negotiations.
However, any hope of preserving neutrality was soon abandoned and the severance of diplomatic relations with the Axis was announced at the Rio conference in February 1942.
They were for use by statesmen and diplomats, working aids for the men engaged in the conduct of international affairs.
They say that they do in their diplomatese, which is to say that the Taliban must cooperate, must understand what a grave situation it faces, and must make the right decision. CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2001
One, in diplomatese, is to "play it long," to avoid turning a drama into a crisis. Nothing Short Of Doomsday
Hurd flew to the Gulf on Aug. 31 to pursue diplomatic contacts.
Japan and North Korea have held three rounds of talks on normalizing diplomatic relations this year.
The diplomatic relations between the two countries have been ruptured.
The Americans recognise that the UN can be the channel for greater diplomatic activity.
The accord comes amid a diplomatic drive to end its isolation in the international arena.
But the carefully modulated tones of this career diplomat were not the red meat that Fleet Street desired.
The two diplomatists shook hands, and then the cooper showed the banker the door.
Ministers claim that the public diplomatic spat has little effect on inward investment. Times, Sunday Times
Canada and Britain have established diplomatic relations with North Korea.
The chairman of the multilateral talks, Pierre Girard, a Swiss diplomat, circulated a memorandum Tuesday to member states to reconvene the meeting, according to the sources.
You're being very diplomatic, but I'm wondering if you aren't also disappointed.
One analyst said the decision will not lead to an immediate severance of diplomatic ties between them.
He was tired from a restless night of thinking and practicing his diplomatic procedures.
The leader's aggressive stance seems to have foreclosed any chance of diplomatic compromise.
Diplomats now expect the mission to be much less ambitious.
Diplomat Chris Stevens says the TNC has pledged to improve its human rights performance after international criticism.
He understood now why the wretched diplomat could be persuaded to perjure himself. DOUBLE DECEIT
While to an untrained mind, diplomatic speak may sometimes appear to favour Israel - although consideration of the full context almost always reveals a consistent failure to condemn PA/Arab actions - Britain's diplomatic * actions* (rather than words) reveal, if not anti-Israel bias, certainly pro-PA/Arab bias. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Sleepy days in leafy suburbs are disturbed by huge removal lorries that swallow up entire households as transient diplomats, businessmen and journalists leave for postings new.
He urged governments worldwide to break diplomatic ties with the new regime.
The PNG government sent a second diplomatic note on April 7, again demanding an apology.
A token number of official diplomatic missions is desirable but not essential.
International diplomatic efforts to end the conflict were grinding slowly forward. Times, Sunday Times
There were also complaints from America's diplomatic establishment. Times, Sunday Times
By no means should a diplomatic plane with the president be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country. Times, Sunday Times
Between 1988 and 1994, China normalized or established diplomatic relations with 18 countries, as well as with the Soviet successor states.
It will exert renewed pressure on the tense diplomatic ties between Britain and Argentina. Times, Sunday Times
Even amid the worst sectarian violence, boxers here had a kind of diplomatic immunity.
It has cast aside diplomatic niceties. Times, Sunday Times
1980 saw a beeline of American diplomats and officials coming to Kashmir.
Clinton's first to Israel and the Palestinian areas since she was appointed Washington's top diplomat, is widely seen as a "familiarization" visit. The Earth Times Online Newspaper

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