Sentence examples for proved diplomatic from inspiring English sources

They approached religion in more or less the same way they approached everything else that interested them: Franklin invented his own; Washington proved diplomatic; Adams grumbled about it; Jefferson could not stop tinkering with it; and Madison defended, as a natural right, the free exercise of it.

He has just returned from his assessment tour of the region, and certainly, he did not find much optimism, but George Mitchell is a proven diplomatic innovator.

The scheme proved a diplomatic and political disaster.

Whatever her private difficulties with James, she proved a diplomatic asset to him in England, conducting herself with discretion and graciousness in public.

The extradition request for the man arrested in Poland could prove a diplomatic headache for the Polish government.

She's going to have to roll up her sleeves a lot more to prove her diplomatic mettle.

So here comes Representative Michele Bachmann, eager to prove her diplomatic expertise despite a short tenure in Congress, vowing that under her administration, "We wouldn't have an American Embassy in Iran," which doesn't exist.

Think of it as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's last-ditch effort, at seventy-nine, to prove his diplomatic standing to a skeptical West Bank street, after months of reciprocal violence between Israel and Hamas during which Abbas seemed only a bystander.

At the same time, its influence over the regime, though limited, has proved a useful diplomatic card to play.

This proved to be a diplomatic and psychological blunder.

Lincoln appointed Pomeroy to oversee the project, but diplomatic obstacles proved insurmountable.