Sentence examples for diplomatic word from inspiring English sources
" 'Envoy' is an elegant diplomatic word...
Particularly disheartening – that's the most diplomatic word I can find at the moment – is David Cameron's situation.
'I hope the notion of a unilateral approach died in some people's minds here today," President George W. Bush told a NATO news conference in Brussels, bridling at having been saddled with the dirty diplomatic word.
A few things struck me while I listened to this being debated on the Today programme: the first was that pretty well all markets that have four big players (in this case Enterprise, Punch, Admiral and Greene King) end up with a … excuse me while I find the most diplomatic word … an asymmetrical power structure.
(" 'Despicable' is not your standard diplomatic word," Richard Cohen of the Washington Post points out. "Words are never personal, always a step back, a message from the balcony — and then it's time for lunch and the usual communique, a blah, blah, blah of words meaning very little").
After a long day, he emerged from his sessions with the Russians, Turks, and Saudis muttering some diplomatic word globules: the meetings were "constructive and productive and succeeded in surfacing some ideas, which I am not going to share today," and warm congratulations to Austria on the occasion of its national day, and, as for how long Assad will stay in power, "we can agree to disagree".
At the U.N., Bolton has earned a reputation — in the not very diplomatic words of sixty-four former American Ambassadors and diplomats who recently signed a letter opposing him — for "egotistical intolerance," "arrogant actions," and a "hard-core, go-it-alone posture" that "has alienated the bulk of the diplomatic community and cost the United States its leadership role".
It was, he says, searching for the most diplomatic words, "a sandwich I did not enjoy".
Hubert Boehle, president and chief operating officer of Bauer Publishing USA, offered some diplomatic words to his new competitors.
(The diplomatic wording might not always capture the full extent of all dangers, though).
Even Mr. Volpe had only diplomatic words about Mr. Leventhal: "He's going to miss me.
