How To Use Statesmanship In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship
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What is lacking is the vision and the statesmanship necessary to make that vision a reality.
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But national instinct is often wiser than what is supposed to be high national statesmanship, and there can be no doubt that the true foundation of the East India Company was the simple recognition of an iron necessity.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03
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Statesmanship today calls for a very sober and sane appraisal of the whole situation and one great factor which to my mind is going to be the determining factor in the whole situation is that England today is dealing with a new India, an India that might have been guilty of her sins of omission and commission in the past, and so have been many other countries, but India feels a sense of frustration and humiliation to be the only country, a country of 350 million people today, in the 20th century, taking dictation from a foreign power, and that sentiment is so profound and so wide-spread that even those people who do not take an active part in politics cherish that feeling uppermost in their hearts.
India's Fight For Freedom
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This reflected her statesmanship and muted her critics when she was accused of intransigency.
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The statesmanship of 1850 (profound and patriotic, as alas! it is to be feared, too much of what we call statesmanship to-day is not) has been outgrown.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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If this be true, and popular opinion is to supersede the wisdom of the experts, if the people are really to have power, and be competent critics of good government, or merely to become good material in the hands of constructive statesmanship, education must include or be essentially _political education_.
The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
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For a political leader to change his or her mind in the face of reality is a mark of statesmanship.
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But, of course, diplomacy and statesmanship is something Republicans wouldn't know anything about.
Pelosi blasts, McCain defends Bush comments
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This was high statesmanship, since each planned to use a new mandate to enact politically courageous and unpopular things.
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The protection of the environment is the definitive test of statesmanship.
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In fact, good statesmanship allowed me to grow my coffers to rival the papacy - all without attacking across borders.
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Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it.
The Grand Old Man
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Or even statesmanship, if the reports I have of you are true, and I would believe that they are.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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Many felt that a grand gesture of statesmanship was required in relation to Northern Ireland.
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Even when slavery was first introduced into this country, Fate had written upon the walls of the nation that it “must go,” and go it must, as the result of wise statesmanship or amid the smoke of battle and the awful “diapason of cannonade.”
Black and White
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This was high statesmanship, since each planned to use a new mandate to enact politically courageous and unpopular things.
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Unlike his opponent, the senator thinks statesmanship alone can't restore the faith of a betrayed electorate.
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Sarah Palin still has no idea that her nomination was a political attempt to 'Jump the shark', based not on some strong resume involving statesmanship and understanding of the issues, but on her ability to be photogenic and 'invigorate a younger generation of the right wing'.
Palin to Hong Kong
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The king never attempted to verse the prince in matters of parliamentary practice, statesmanship, or foreign policy.
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Anything worthy to be calld 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 democratizebut how, and in what degree and part, most prudently to democratize.
Democratic Vistas: Paras. 30–59. Collect
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In his brilliant first volume on the Second World War, Winston Churchill describes French statesmanship on the eve of war as ‘the quintessence of defeatism.’
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?
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Whenever a voice was raised in behalf of deliberation and the recognized maxims of statesmanship, it was howled down in a storm of vituperation and cant.
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In all this, indeed, I feel I cannot stress too frequently how indebted we all are to Sir Gerald Turner's statesmanship.
THE SCAR
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As an exercise in statesmanship, perhaps Powell could, with the benefit of hindsight, revise the text of his speech to reflect what was supportable sustantively and present the revised speech to the American public so that the public could determine whether it would be appropriate for him to resign.
Balkinization
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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
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“The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”
TIME worrying for Amnesty
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Both men understood the stagecraft of statesmanship played out in a global theater.
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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.
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