(n.) A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.
(n.) The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
Example Sentences:
(1) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(2) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(3) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(4) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(5) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
(6) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(7) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
(8) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(9) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(10) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(11) A new round of negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear programme got under way on Wednesday, bringing together the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and top diplomats from the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China.
(12) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(13) Euromaidan was a delayed echo of the social unrest wave , driven by the country's economic failure; it collided with a diplomatic situation that was already fractious over Syria.
(14) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
(15) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
(16) The interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, left a gathering of the Mexican diplomatic corps to take a call from President Enrique Peña Nieto.
(17) During previous upheavals in relations, such as over the Syrian crisis, conversations have taken place between diplomats.
(18) China INDC This would be “a key” to success of the UN climate talks, a French diplomatic official said, because the current national pledges won’t be enough to achieve the goal of keeping the rise in global temperatures below 2C between pre-industrial times and the end of the century.
(19) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(20) It has brought waves of Australian diplomats and functionaries implementing strategies to douse local disgruntlement at the profound social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts their operation has brought.
Hypocritical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
(2) Therefore, according to this view all high-ranking Libyan officials were intrinsically self-serving hypocrites.
(3) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
(4) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(5) The hypocritical Greens remained absolutely silent while these projects were advanced, but now they feign an interest.
(6) Now he says it when he’s rich, he’s a hypocrite.
(7) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
(8) This position is both morally bankrupt and hypocritical.
(9) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(10) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
(11) It's convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say they're a hypocrite.
(12) He will back Johnson’s assessment, while also saying it is hypocritical for the government to continue with arms sales to the region.
(13) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(14) Of course, this is totally hypocritical: their ideology is based on denying national statehood, so they are against establishing a Somali state.
(15) I wasn't attending to its meaning as I said it, and if I thought about it, I felt a hypocrite.
(16) Men in public life, meanwhile, are increasingly unsure whether it’s worse to embrace feminism (hypocritical bastard!)
(17) "I'm not a hypocrite, I'm not going to lie to people but if it was impossible I would say," he said, before defining the necessary "miracle" as "three wins and a draw."
(18) They and other ideologues in the extremist movement saw this lack of unity – rather than the US, "hypocrite, apostate" regimes in the Middle East or the supposed lack of faith of other Muslims – as their biggest problem, at least in the short term.
(19) Ed Balls's bluster is confused and hypocritical when the reality is he'd do it all again," Fallon said.
(20) Worse, it actually helps deflect anger from the Nigerian politicians robbing their own people to the “hypocritical west which acts holier than thou while helping steal our money”.