statesmanship

How To Use statesmanship In A Sentence

• Springing from the twin rootage of Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence, his judicial statesmanship finds no parallel in the salient features of its achievement outside our own annals. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
• The commentariat can't decide whether Chief Justice John Roberts's majority opinion this week upholding a core provision of the Voting Rights Act is rooted in statesmanship or overcaution. Voting Rights and the High Court
• Anything worthy to be call'd statesmanship in the Old World, I should say, among the advanced students, adepts, or men of any brains, does not debate to-day whether to hold on, attempting to lean back and monarchize, or to look forward and democratize -- but how, and in what degree and part, most prudently to democratize. Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
• Helpless beyond measure in all the duties of practical statesmanship, its members or their dependants have given proof of remarkable energy in the single department of peculation; and there, not content with the slow methods of the old-fashioned defaulter, who helped himself only to what there was, they have contrived to steal what there was going to be, and have peculated in advance by a kind of official post-obit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
• As you know, statesmanship is a great passion with the South and she is not going to remain contented in the position of impotent isolation to which her repressionist element has consigned her. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist
• Talleyrand-Metternich or Thiers; and modern statesmanship and modern diplomacy show pale beside the Machiavelism of the _coulisses_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
• We know too little of such matters to dogmatize about them; after all the experience and wisdom of the past, what we call statesmanship is but a complicated, difficult, and uncertain experiment. Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future
• The French government had suddenly recalled Dupleix, the great man whose talent and statesmanship had sustained their cause. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
• National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship
• What is lacking is the vision and the statesmanship necessary to make that vision a reality.