Sentence examples for how much diplomacy from inspiring English sources

"How much diplomacy would there have been at the U.N. if people had said, 'The President is pulling people out of the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce to take over the whole Iraqi state'?" Erdmann said.

Reading it helped me understand the political, cultural, and historical circumstances that led to the current power plays between Russia and the U.S.; it was particularly unnerving to realize how much diplomacy on both sides is now being dictated by ego and by pride.

Officials at Tolo TV's production unit would not comment on the show's financing, and Mr. Ensor declined to say how much public diplomacy money the show received.

If settling even that bloodless clash took years of patient diplomacy, how much more daunting a task to end wars that are hot and cruel, and very much of the present.

The decision by King Salman bin Abdulaziz not to attend the summit two days before it convened was a political decision with serious implications, no matter how much U.S. and Saudi diplomacy try to downplay it and claim there is no message behind the king's absence.

NO ONE, remarked Bismarck, has any idea how much charlatanism there is in diplomacy.

The report could also fuel debate about how much time is left for diplomacy to succeed.

TO UNDERSTAND just how much Nicolas Sarkozy has upturned French diplomacy, try inserting the name Jacques Chirac into the following report.

Le Monde warned after his appointment: "His talent for theatrics is well known, but it remains to be seen how much talent he has in international diplomacy".

The Paris COP 21 talks surpassed expectations in rising to it, demonstrating just how much can be achieved by determined diplomacy, even while working within the unbending red lines of jealously sovereign states.

In "How Politics Sank Accord on Missiles With North Korea" (front page, March 6), you say it is unclear how much Bush administration officials "will use diplomacy to try to head off missile threats, instead of relying primarily on their plans for missile defense".