Sentence examples for diplomatic act from inspiring English sources

It is a lawful, peaceful, diplomatic act in line with past U.N. resolutions and international law.

But giving cash to North Korea without making clear the consequences of its going too far will only encourage more brinkmanship.China and Russia, after years of shrugging their shoulders and mostly leaving the crises between the Koreas for America to manage alone, are now also keen to get in on the diplomatic act.

With the simple diplomatic act of denying legitimacy — something nearly all democratic forces in Iran are now asking of the world — the democracies of the world can give a needed boost to the forces of democratic change in Iran and earn the lasting gratitude of a movement that will eventually triumph.

This would be a major diplomatic act, with significant potential costs and risks.

A diplomatic act can have disastrous consequences if executed at the wrong time, but can be successful if the timing is correct.

Returning to Brazil, he defended himself in the Senate: "Say whatever you want about the diplomatic act of 20 February; you will not be able to take away from me this grateful conviction: that through that solution I saved the life of 2,000 fellow compatriots, [and] avoided the destruction of an important capital".

Occasionally, however, even the most formulaic of diplomatic acts can acquire an unexpected edge, and so it was at Arlington.

These diplomatic acts of imagination are peculiar: Washington has security ties with the entity which it does not recognise diplomatically, to protect it from the one it does recognise.

In the evening, Mr. Obama entered the fray, faced with a delicate diplomatic balancing act involving statesmanship, policy and respect for a fading hero.

Diplomatic Balancing Act Less publicly, American officials in late 2007 began to support Turkish military action against Kurdish rebels in Turkey who have sought refuge in northern Iraq.

BANGKOK — Thailand extradited Viktor Bout, a Russian accused of arms trafficking, to the United States on Tuesday, abandoning the diplomatic balancing act it had conducted for more than two years between Washington and Moscow.