How To Use Statesmanlike In A Sentence
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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a man of statesmanlike judgment
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And he then made a series of more or less statesmanlike appointments to senior positions.
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This disdain for legality - well concealed behind statesmanlike rhetoric - corresponds directly with a second vice: not telling the public the truth.
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He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.
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I believe we are entitled still to look back to those giants of our past as our examples of the ultimate in statesmanlike thought.
National Policy1939 Version
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The normally reserved defense secretary heaped praise on Karzai for reacting in "an extraordinarily statesmanlike way," adding, "Frankly, I think the American government will not forget this kind of statesmanlike response.
Defense Secretary Gates: Progress in Afghan war has 'exceeded my expectations'
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He was notorious for his unstatesmanlike dirty tricks when dealing with people who failed to toe his line.
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He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.
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By refraining from criticizing other Democrats he appears more statesmanlike.
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It's at best unstatesmanlike and at worst amounts to sabotage-by-soundbite.
The Sun
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The senator's own descension into the gutter has also taken a toll on his assistant's statesmanlike image.
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Pitt therefore based his hopes on the statesmanlike policy of the Czar, who in that month despatched to London one of his confidants, a clever but viewy young man, of frank and engaging manners, Count Novossiltzoff.
William Pitt and the Great War
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Often and often I have mused quietly amid scenes where gamblers of various sorts were disporting themselves -- in village inns where solemn yokels played shove-halfpenny with statesmanlike gravity; in sunny Italian streets where lazy loungers played their queer guessing game with beans; in noisy racing-clubs where the tape clicks all day long; on crowded steamboats when
Side Lights
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He is not bright enough to realise how absurd and unstatesmanlike he looks.
The Sun
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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You've got to engage with the young, see, however unstatesmanlike the process.
The Sun
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He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.
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A couple more decades of such bipartisan "statesmanlike" - war and deficit spending and we'll have a Depression worse than 1929.
Against Afghan War
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She is anything but "statesmanlike" (sorry, I don't know what the gender-neutral equivalent for that term would be).
Palin: 'The media will never understand'
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He laughs — a surprisingly unstatesmanlike chortle.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Sistani has so far played a statesmanlike game.
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But Clinton settled on Gore, the statesmanlike senator from Tennessee.
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He used words like 'deprecate' and 'wanton act of violence', he adopted a tone that was selfless and a pose that was statesmanlike, but being noble wasn't enough.
Whispers Of Betrayal
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That last sentence – with its statesmanlike tone of advocacy – is killingly brilliant, isn't it?
So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
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He lauded Mandela for what he described as his statesmanlike conduct on Friday.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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But the prime minister is also known for unstatesmanlike gaffes and occasionally losing his temper.
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Bill Richardson praised North Korea's "statesmanlike" restraint as he wrapped up a four-day trip to North Korea.
South Korea Braces For Possible Attack
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He was well-briefed and spoke articulately about Scotland's qualities, although his public speaking set-pieces still lack a statesmanlike stamp.
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a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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unstatesmanlike procedure
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Harold Macmillan's "wind of change" speech was a gratuitous piece of rhetoric which committed the inexcusably unstatesmanlike folly of arousing vast expectations in advance of what was bound to be an extremely difficult disengagement from empire.
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Their officials at their headquarters are almost forced to adopt what can be politely described as a statesmanlike attitude over matters of controversy between different countries.
Korea's Fight for Freedom
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He was 'statesmanlike' last time, and your colleague Evans panned him as crap, because he didn't join in the bunfight.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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There were moments, especially in his last few statements, where he sounded statesmanlike and like a guy who wanted to be a ‘uniter, not a divider.’
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The time in the Senate has made her more statesmanlike; on the other hand, her speech is fairly empty, touching on old, trusted but overworn notes.
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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His unstatesmanlike behavior and childish tough talk makes many people in other countries wince.
