statesmanship

How To Use statesmanship In A Sentence

• 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.’
• 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
• Or even statesmanship, if the reports I have of you are true, and I would believe that they are. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
• Many felt that a grand gesture of statesmanship was required in relation to Northern Ireland.
• 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
• This was high statesmanship, since each planned to use a new mandate to enact politically courageous and unpopular things.
• Unlike his opponent, the senator thinks statesmanship alone can't restore the faith of a betrayed electorate.
• 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
• The king never attempted to verse the prince in matters of parliamentary practice, statesmanship, or foreign policy.
• 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. Democratic Vistas: Paras. 30–59. Collect