statecraft

How To Use statecraft In A Sentence

• His classical treatment of the subject is worth serious reference; for it should be realised that Lincoln, who had both to learn his new trade of statecraft and to exercise it in a terrible emergency, did so with a large part of each day necessarily consumed by worrying and distasteful tasks of a much paltrier kind. Abraham Lincoln
• Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility.
• But they have not been able to transform "bushcraft" into statecraft as recent scholarship by one of the original founders of the party-in-dictatorship today has shown. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: The Future of the Future Country, Part II
• A strategy of disengagement would require bold, risk-taking statecraft of a high order, and much diplomatic competence in its execution.
• Wolcott is referring to Niccolò Machiavelli, a philosopher and writer in the Italian Renaissance, who inspired the political term Machiavellianism, defined as "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct," according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Azcentral.com | news
• The European Union, from its beginnings as an experiment in statecraft, has rapidly emerged as a resounding success; yet Americans have so far managed to ignore the geopolitical revolution under way across the Atlantic. Archive 2005-03-13
• In spite of their professed desire to modernize, many Qing officials believed that the basic principles of Chinese statecraft were based on Confucian prescriptions.
• Suicide terrorists are not some other breed of men, unsusceptible to the usual tools of statecraft.
• In the wake of the Arab Spring revolutions that followed the overthrow of Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali -- some of which were catalyzed or sustained by online communication -- it has become a central tenant of the department's so-called 21st Century Statecraft. Corbin Hiar: Do SOPA and PIPA Conflict With State Dept.'s Global Internet Freedom Goals?
• A realistic plan to prevent them from occurring is what people with experience in statecraft call 'strategy,' something Senator Obama has not offered yet. McCain Answers Obama - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com