(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.
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.