(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.
Statesmanship
Definition:
(n.) The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Edward Kennedy lived his life precisely at the crossroads of all that he encountered – at the intersection of statesmanship, of history, of moral purpose, of tragedy, of compromise.
(2) It is interesting to hear Ed Miliband, who wants to be the UK’s next prime minister, claim responsibility for this inaction as a demonstration of his gravitas and statesmanship.
(3) In February 1918, when certain categories of women over the age of 30 were granted the vote, the Guardian and Observer attributed this to the statesmanship of Millicent Fawcett rather than the impassioned leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst.
(4) The book was characterised by a new expressiveness, and Rawls again argued against the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, offering a moving evocation of statesmanship.
(5) But it was in an astonishing response to the BBC’s Jonathan Agnew about persistent criticism of his captaincy, specifically from Shane Warne , that Cook most highlighted the alarming gulf between his foot-in-mouth tendencies and the smooth statesmanship of his predecessor Andrew Strauss.
(6) Crispin Blunt said: "It's time to end Tony Blair's personal calvary as quartet envoy following his disastrous statesmanship in office on the Middle East.
(7) The campaign heralded Trump’s trip, where he was accompanied by Alabama senator Jeff Sessions and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani as a sign of Trump’s statesmanship.
(8) Abdullah has called for United Nations mediation, which Ghani said he would welcome; a senior UN envoy has warned them there must be a winner and a loser, and called for "statesmanship, not gamesmanship".
(9) This meeting begins a relationship where we can talk about the issues we’ve got to resolve between the United States and Mexico, as well as the issues we have in common.” It didn’t publicize this statesmanship as much as it could have.
(10) They should also show greater "statesmanship" and courage to take controversial decisions, such as on the need to expand airport capacity in the south-east.
(11) "Reaching this moment has required leadership and statesmanship from all sides.
(12) The prime minister’s failure of statesmanship at such a crucial moment snubbed Scotland’s hard-won decision to remain in the UK in the most provocative way imaginable, by providing Scottish national feeling with a brand new anti-English grievance.
(13) Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday saluted what he called the triumph of “statesmanship and compromise” in Afghanistan , which will inaugurate its new president on Monday.
(14) It requires financial statesmanship and a recognition of today's economic interdependencies.
(15) Or was his statesmanship what mattered, bringing peace to a nation that seemed destined for bloody racial war?
(16) He said in a statement: "In a delicate situation which demanded statesmanship, the government showed partisanship.
(17) Despite their elitist education, and because of it, our own "wounded leaders" can't manage such statesmanship.
(18) [The American people] expect us to rise above partisanship and reach for statesmanship,” added Clinton in one of several criticisms of the committee.
(19) Cameron will be keen to demonstrate his statesmanship during the visit while, in the UK, Labour’s leadership election campaign continues to unravel amid ideological infighting.
(20) They have no blue blood and no statesmanship to garner any prestige.