Sentence examples for diplomatic machine from inspiring English sources

Diplomats fret that she is not asserting her authority in the turf fights surrounding the new External Action Service (EAS), the diplomatic machine created by Lisbon.

When Catherine Ashton started on the daunting task of building the European Union's first diplomatic machine in late 2009, the Labour peer was met by guffaws of derision.

China's diplomatic machine has spared no effort, making sure that African leaders do not view its interest as a passing fancy.

But hers is an uneven trident: she has lots of EU development money, but her diplomatic machine is still a prototype and she has only a rudimentary military-planning outfit.

The E.U. should also learn another lesson from the debacle and create an early warning system to ensure that its diplomatic machine is in a better position to prevent technical decisions about trade and food safety from undermining its broader foreign policy priorities.

But for now the diplomatic machine seems to be turning in a void.

While the greater diplomatic machines are still deciding how to proceed, Admirals Wu and Greenert have agreed on the need for open negotiations to prevent confrontations from escalating.

It can also be an unwieldy, invasive machine with diplomatic security agents, sniffer dogs and motorcades blocking off traffic in cities and disrupting people's lives.

After the war, they kept that fact secret from the leaders of their newly independent colonies even as they supplied them with captured Enigma machines for diplomatic use.

"But I think when she was doing that, she was probably just following her brief from the [Italian] machine," said a diplomatic source.

Apparently, in order to move U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, the Pentagon must turn U.S. calls to stop fueling Assad's killing machine into hypocritical diplomatic blather.