(n.) The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is creating added concern about the career civil servants who are in these agencies, wondering what they are in for.” Smith, now director of strategy and statecraft at the Center for a New American Security, added: “Many of them are starting to look at other options; some of the younger people are looking to switch careers, return to graduate school, try and go abroad.
(2) This is why it has survived so long, although, ironically, it lay in an oubliette of relative obscurity until denounced by a Huguenot exile, who claimed that it was Catherine de' Medici's favourite book and a work that encouraged bloodthirsty, cynical statecraft.
(3) The demise of statecraft goes hand in hand with the rise of neoliberalism, and its creed that whatever can be done by the private sector should.
(4) So the rugby campaign was one of Mandela's boldest strokes of statecraft, no less impressive for the fact that the euphoria he achieved could barely begin to extinguish three centuries of racial antagonism.
(5) Writing in the FT , Mr Osborne's biographer attributed political statecraft to his subject – his calculation that, by rolling back the reach of public provision, he can use austerity to change "the makeup of the electorate itself" and entrench support for his cuts.
(6) Federal and local statecraft against substance production and use remains crude and does not show signs of the increasing sophistication observed elsewhere in the world.
(7) So what has 40 years of neoliberal statecraft achieved?
(8) They both have little time for international norms of diplomacy and statecraft, preferring to stand outside the western consensus to strike a nationalist pose.
(9) Statecraft doesn't even get its own entry in Wikipedia, and when it's pressed into service at all, it's in reference to summitry or wars.
(10) It is incredible.” Schell said he believed the Communist party leader had modelled himself on Han Feizi, a philosopher known as China’s Machiavelli whose basic maxim was: “Keep it mysterious – don’t be transparent.” “I think Xi Jinping’s whole fundament of statecraft is to keep his cards very close to his chest, keep everybody a little bit uncertain and off balance and to project thereby an air of greater authority,” Schell said.
(11) But these are largely the products of statecraft, not sinfulness.
(12) A bold political statecraft would fuse them – for one election at least.
(13) No tool of statecraft should be taken off the table, but Senator McCain would continue a failed policy that has seen Iran strengthen its position, advance its nuclear program, and stockpile 150 kilos of low enriched uranium.
(14) His loud rejection of the Iraq war raised popular expectations that he would move US statecraft in a more dovish direction.
(15) Jeff Moss, one of America’s most celebrated hackers, who is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, said that it was also unclear whether Clinton’s private email was connected to other servers.
(16) It is the greatest single failure of modern statecraft.
(17) Great statecraft and imagination would then be required from Kiev to rebuild an effectively federal Ukrainian state, one in which people who identify themselves as Russians could again feel reasonably at home.
(18) The last great moment of statecraft was three years ago, when Alistair Darling hauled in crisis-hit bankers for what Fred Goodwin described as a "drive-by shooting", and all but nationalised the two biggest high-street names.
(19) It’s a free-market conception of statecraft.” Or you could see it as a way of justifying the continued existence of government in an anti-government age.
(20) That should not mean, however, that we in the west can continue to duck the long-term implications of Putin's deeply hostile statecraft – not least because whoever succeeds Putin may become even more nationalistic and trigger-happy.
Statesman
Definition:
(n.) A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
(n.) One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
(n.) A small landholder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modi had to isolate and sideline the BJP's octogenarian elder statesman, LK Advani , before he could become its frontrunner.
(2) Now, following parental objections, the school board in the Meridian district in Idaho has voted to remove it from the high-school supplemental reading list, where it has been used since 2010, reported local paper the Idaho Statesman.
(3) She is now suing the French statesman in a civil court, which could result in a hefty damages award.
(4) Not for them clipboards, iPads and a rolled-up copy of the New Statesman peeping out of their pockets.
(5) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
(6) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(7) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(8) Last week he began that process in a New Statesman interview in which he said: "I'm caricatured as a tribalist.
(9) No glasses were raised on Friday to one of the real architects of their devastating success: Donald Dewar, the celebrated Labour senior statesman and the man who drove through devolution.
(10) In making my choice, I was looking for a statesman who has already some track record in the administration,” said a 30-year-old bank employee who gave her name only as Sawssen.
(11) At 73, Scott is a Hollywood elder statesman and will no doubt have secured final cut as part of his deal to return as director.
(12) Those who overheard, McLaren remembers, clustered round afterwards and pressed the idea on him; and coincidentally, the very next day, as the idea was taking root, he went to a New Statesman lunch, fell to discussing the mayor, and ended up leaving with a commission to write his own manifesto, which the NS published last week.
(13) The visionary statesman of the 2009 Cairo speech failed to seize the opportunity of the Arab spring, especially in Egypt, where well over $1bn in aid gave the US real leverage with Egypt’s now again dominant, repressive military.
(14) And Tony Abbott is yet to reveal whether his pitch as the “statesman seeking bipartisan solutions” is actually about real, negotiated, bipartisan solutions, or is just another way of saying that Labor, and everyone else for that matter, should down tools and agree with him.
(15) The New Statesman has hired new columnists including comedian Mark Watson on ethical dilemmas; David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, on economics; and Phillip Blond, the director of the thinktank ResPublica, each fortnight on political ideas.
(16) This is what Dugher said in an article for the New Statesman at the end of last month: In recent weeks, we’ve seen repeated media stories that Jeremy Corbyn is planning a ‘revenge reshuffle’.
(17) What will disturb the Labour party high command is the speed with which MPs appeared to be gripped by neurosis once the normally loyal New Statesman called him “an old-style Hampstead socialist” out of touch with the “lower middle class or material aspiration”.
(18) By the summer of 1793, the revolution had plunged into such turmoil that it is hard to see how any statesman, no matter how gifted, could have saved the situation.
(19) The chief argument against Sanders for his entire campaign is that he’s unelectable in a national election and, by extension, ineffective as a candidate or a statesman.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Berger interviewed on Newsnight, BBC2, in 2011 His first published collection of essays in 1960 was mostly drawn from his New Statesman reviews.