Sentence examples for diplomatic contest from inspiring English sources

President Clinton told Germany's chancellor that he would accept Horst Kohler as head of the I.M.F., ending a diplomatic contest over who would lead the institution.

Sharpening the diplomatic contest, the French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppé, told a radio station before flying to New York that events in Syria were a "veritable scandal" and that President Assad had "blood on his hands".

Mr. Fischer briefly served as the fund's top official last year while the United States, Germany and several other European nations waged a protracted and sometimes bitter diplomatic contest over who would serve in the top post.

President Clinton told Germany's chancellor that he would accept Horst Kohler as the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund, ending a heated diplomatic contest over who would lead the institution that battles global financial crises.

President Clinton told Germany's chancellor today that he would accept Horst Kohler as the new head of the International Monetary Fund, ending a heated diplomatic contest over who would lead the institution that battles global financial crises.

Today, President Putin's Russia has another critical interest: not to lose in the diplomatic and strategic contest with the United States, which currently has a president who is perceived as weak, undecided, and difficult to predict in foreign policy.

In diplomatic negotiations, as in other contests, knowing more of your opponent's plans will help, but you still have to conduct the campaign.

And if protests in the style of the Arab Spring spread to the West Bank in advance of that diplomatic maneuver, they could turn a contest of words in New York into a third intifada in the Palestinian territories.

The contest finished in a suitably diplomatic tie, with 110 points for each side.The trip offered a rare opportunity for mutually beneficial dealings with North Korea.

Diplomatic recognition is more than just a popularity contest for Kosovo, a desperately poor, predominantly Muslim landlocked territory of two million people.

She then thrust the glass microphone prize and yelled: "Thank you, Europe – welcome to Ukraine!" While voting in the Eurovision song contest has always been subject to political and diplomatic intrigue, Ukraine's entry takes things to a new level.