Sentence examples for diplomatic battle from inspiring English sources

Mott was a diplomatic battle all the way.

"It has been waging an almost desperate diplomatic battle in Washington".

So it is clearly no accident that Serbia's leaders have taken to talking about a new "diplomatic" battle of Kosovo.

Its three illuminated Christmas trees on the border with North Korea are at the front line of a diplomatic battle.

These homeless refugees are part of a legal and diplomatic battle currently being fought all over Europe.

However the encounter is likely to provoke a diplomatic battle after the Sri Lankan president insisted his country has "nothing to hide" and resisted calls for further inquiries.

Regionally, it has hardened diplomatic battle-lines, and highlighted the shortcomings of local mechanisms for responding to disasters.Since being carried into the presidency in 2010 on the back of affection for his late mother, Corazon Aquino, Mr Aquino's popularity has weathered gibes about his ostensibly laid-back approach.

So it was last fall and winter during the diplomatic battles that preceded the war in Iraq.

He predicted that diplomatic battles over the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and technological hurdles meant "the odds are against" deployment by the end of 2004.

But he predicted that diplomatic battles over the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and the scientific hurdles meant "the odds are against" deployment by the end of 2004.

The claims echo those pressed by Italy and Greece several years ago that led to prolonged diplomatic battles and prompted the Metropolitan, the Getty, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and several other American museums to return dozens of objects.