Sentence examples for diplomatic card from inspiring English sources

With peace negotiations at an impasse the Palestinians have only one diplomatic card left — their status at the United Nations.

At the same time, its influence over the regime, though limited, has proved a useful diplomatic card to play.

Contrary to your assertion in "Palestinians at the U.N., Again" (editorial, Nov. 5), the Palestinians do have more than one "diplomatic card".

With peace negotiations at an impasse since 2008 and unlikely to resume any time soon, the Palestinians have only one diplomatic card left — their status at the United Nations — and once again they are trying to play it.

When the steady military success of the British culminated in the expulsion of France from Canada, the Indians no longer could play the diplomatic card of agreeing to support whichever king the one in London or the one in Paris would restrain westward settlement.

Lincoln Center Festival 2001 has played its diplomatic cards differently.

Today, China is not only militarily and economically more powerful, but also holds important diplomatic cards.

Bulgaria has offered to send police to help in Kosovo.Both countries have diplomatic cards to play in the region.

11 world has produced a reshuffling of diplomatic cards on several fronts, one of them being the American-Russian relationship.

Argentina has other powerful diplomatic cards to play, including the backing of China and Russia, who have joined Argentina in rejecting the right to self-determination by the Falklanders, seeing it as a possible precedent for separatist groups in their own territories.

The Palestinian Authority has already played what it regards as one of its strongest diplomatic cards against Israel.