Sentence examples for diplomatic fights from inspiring English sources

But it appears to be less eager today than anytime in the last decade to pick diplomatic fights with the United States, even on issues in its own backyard.

The U.S. and Russia have also been drawn into diplomatic fights over conflicts in Syria and eastern Ukraine, where the two nations have differing international interests.

In the diplomatic fight about Kosovo Russia has been Serbia's staunchest ally.

On Thursday, the French destroyed one of Qaddafi's fighter jets; they are also in a diplomatic fight with Turkey, their and our NATO ally.

The risk that overseas developments will hurt the Japanese economy had diminished, he added, as the U.S. government averted setting off automatic spending cuts and tax increases, and Japan appeared to be past the worst of its diplomatic fight with China over a small chain of islands in the East China Sea.

The presence of these muscular, heavily armed men signaled that Ossetian martial law had settled over Akhalgori, in an area outside the conflict zone in the war between Georgia and Ossetian separatists that now seems destined to become the grounds for a diplomatic fight.

When the ensuing political and diplomatic fight was settled -- with no help from Washington -- President Lula da Silva of Brazil declared Chavez to be "the great peacemaker" in the conflict.

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

By focusing relentlessly on this threat -- and by remaining resolutely coy about a decision to go to war that seems to have been made a year ago -- President Bush and his advisers have succeeded brilliantly in largely confining debate to the modalities of confronting the threat (inspections, diplomacy and so on) and thus forcing their opponents, political and diplomatic, to fight on their ground.

HARDLY a day goes by without a new flare-up in the war of diplomatic attrition being fought out by China and Japan.

"The TIP report can be a great diplomatic tool to fight modern slavery, but only if the State Department is going to rank countries honestly according to what's happening on the ground," said Kristen Abrams, director of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking, a coalition of 13 US-based human rights organisations.