The vote itself drew responses from the leaders of three countries — the United States, Syria and Iraq — and set off a flurry of diplomacy as officials in several countries worked strenuously to avert military action.
Liberals -- broadly speaking, Mr. Adams's likeliest constituency -- were startled at the nonjudgmental, even sympathetic, way that opera depicted the title figure: a jaunty Columbus of diplomacy, setting sail for an ancient world that to him (and us) was new.
It is probably right to say that competition and power always have been part of the set of drivers for science diplomacy.
It implies a different set of policy priorities and diplomacy approaches than arguments from national security alone.
Both set their stories against a background of diplomacy, war and Anglo-German naval competition, though they reach their similar conclusions by different routes.David Ramsay, whose study of the disaster came out last year in Britain and now appears in the United States, is the more forensic.
These two events set the context for an intense year of diplomacy.
Although he was the picture of diplomacy and did not set out to embarrass anyone, he did expect students to have the reading and work done.
THE latest report from UNAIDS, the United Nations agency set up in 1996 to combat HIV infection, is a masterpiece of diplomacy.
Joschka Fischer, Germany's foreign minister and a strong proponent of diplomacy, warned earlier this week that a nuclear Iran could set off a Middle Eastern arms race.
Publicly, Mr. Bush's aides expressed confidence that after another round of diplomacy at the United Nations, they would obtain a resolution setting short deadlines and specific penalties for defiance.
