Sentence examples for diplomatic mining from inspiring English sources

A representative from the South African Embassy, which forms part of this diplomatic mining group, was unable to attend.

Yet underscoring the political and diplomatic land mines that have routinely plagued attempts to solve Europe's crisis, he noted that the fund from which Spain is set to draw its rescue cash had not been fully ratified in Europe.

She has sidestepped diplomatic land mines, earning credit as a leader in winning situations — such as the Libya uprising that, with U.S. help, toppled Moammar Gaddafi — without being bogged down by losing ones, such as the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the dwindling U.S. war in Afghanistan.

Banks has chucked it all at me: his diplomatic passports and diamond mines, Russians spies, offshore tax havens, circumvention of electoral law.

This time Washington and Britain are following a two-sided strategy to insure that every possible diplomatic option has been mined while continuing with military preparations to attack Iraq if diplomacy fails.

Wilson is borderline diplomatic: "Her sensibility is not mine.

An Italian scholar mines family archives, diplomatic records and letters in this meticulous account of the impulsive Russian poet's death in a duel in 1837 and of the society that allowed people to settle grievances in such a way.

This we did, and I could feel him going up on tiptoe behind me so that the top of his head would reach the same level as mine, whereupon the diplomatic soul pronounced us of equal height and Gibson said: 'See?

I spent an extraordinary afternoon with him during which he joked about his wife being a Russian spy, told me about his diamond mines, his Belizean diplomatic passport, his appearance in the Panama Papers and my hopeless and doomed efforts to hold him to account.

But the privatisation of Turkey's coal mines has also caused diplomatic disagreements.

The consensus advocated diplomatic missions abroad and the opening of mines but firmly argued against telegraph and railway construction.