Sentence examples for diplomatic games from inspiring English sources

Given the political and diplomatic games being played now with reform, the world may never know.

Libya's leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi, "is doing nothing more than playing diplomatic games to get sanctions lifted.

BURUMA: The problem with helping liberals and dissidents in authoritarian countries is that they often end up as pawns in diplomatic games.

The Palestinians, he said, are "playing diplomatic games to try to cover their position, which is to boycott Israel and to refuse to enter negotiations".

Sure, I play diplomatic games, too, but these are largely in service of keeping my army working at maximum efficiency.

Without them, we're seeing the kickoff of a couple diplomatic games: the guessing game and the shame game.

They helped the Lebanon peace process, Yemen, they got the World Cup, Doha talks, Al Jazeera -- these are all parts of a very big diplomatic game and a fight for influence," says a London-based British diplomat.

Europhiles and Eurosceptics alike doubt that he ever had a diplomatic game plan to begin with.

FOR eight tumultuous weeks, the French and the Americans played a magnificently elegant diplomatic game.

Since January, the new Polish conservative government has been playing a complex diplomatic game around Brexit.

Others have yet to say what they are prepared to do.The diplomatic game is particularly hard.