What's the difference between statesman and statesmanlike?
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.
Statesmanlike
Definition:
(a.) Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Queen was last night said to be 'saddened by the news', while in a statement Tony Blair said he would be remembered as 'a good friend to Britain' and for his 'statesmanlike pursuit of more stable relations with the Soviet Union'.
(2) Interviewed about the cuts and the economic outlook on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 on Sunday , Osborne looked grim and statesmanlike in repose – he has grown fleshier in office – but every time he began to speak his dimpled mouth formed a half-smile and his quick eyes were almost merry.
(3) I look forward to working with President Jonathan throughout the remainder of his term, and I thank him for his many years of service and his statesmanlike conduct at this critical juncture.” Cameron said: “I send my warmest congratulations to General Buhari on being elected as Nigeria’s next president.
(4) Yet it had no influence: over the following 46 years, the divide has grown almost totally obscure, the average pop star growing older, grander and more statesmanlike, the average politician younger, more awestruck and deferential.
(5) Ed, meanwhile, gives the impression of having done a lot of work on rigorous initiatives and statesmanlike intent.
(6) In the context of a prime ministerial candidate offering up his own female children as an electoral treat, it is statesmanlike to the precise degree that greased-paper leaflets advertising a businessman’s nightclub in a suspiciously low-rent hotel.
(7) The need is for a form of leadership that involves patience, trust building and long-sightedness – a very different, and more statesmanlike, set of skills.
(8) Is anyone seriously going to argue that the only thing holding Gaddafi back from statesmanlike abdication is his recent arrest warrant from the ICC?
(9) But to propose a ceasefire makes sense for Assad, since it further divides the rebel camp, as well as looking sensible to Syrians and statesmanlike on the international stage.
(10) They will have missed his new statesmanlike incarnation – the hand gestures that originated with Blair, and have been copied by Cameron; the flat palm shuffling an invisible pack of cards.
(11) Meanwhile, the Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Andrew Mackay accused Mowlam of appearing less than statesmanlike.
(12) Cameron deliberately struck a statesmanlike tone in a decent pro-business speech in which he asked to be able to "finish the job".
(13) To some extent he was right, of course, and if he had been making a general critique of the iniquities of global football finance, he might even have come across as statesmanlike, but his point was limited to Guardiola and his personal antipathy.
(14) Jonathan sought to appear statesmanlike at an international summit in Paris on Saturday as he discussed cooperation with other west African leaders and French president Francois Hollande.
(15) Or is he capable of becoming a statesmanlike figure who leads in a more measured manner?” While the votes were counted the dollar had been weaker against major currencies – the Japanese yen, euro and even the pound, which has been pummelled since the vote for Brexit .
(16) The Telegraph, under the Barclay Brothers' "wise and statesmanlike ownership" (will that do, Mr Lawyer?
(17) An England team led by an alluringly statesmanlike Lineker reached the semi-finals and returned as unstyled and homemade-looking frontiersmen of the new era, a bunch of standard-issue, tracksuited footballers mobbed by crowds at Heathrow.
(18) Holland-Kaye is not averse to a bit of Union Jack-waving in the cause of business and has a certain floppy-haired, statesmanlike bearing.
(19) However, faced with the statesmanlike moderation of a government that would have every reason to be more drastic, the ECB and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, respond with a dogmatic arrogance that sits ill with European values.
(20) Whether you agree with their policies or not, Nick Clegg and David Cameron took the statesmanlike course in 2010.