For a political leader to change his or her mind in the face of reality is a mark of statesmanship. |
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Unlike his opponent, the senator thinks statesmanship alone can't restore the faith of a betrayed electorate. |
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The king never attempted to verse the prince in matters of parliamentary practice, statesmanship, or foreign policy. |
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What is lacking is the vision and the statesmanship necessary to make that vision a reality. |
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Both men understood the stagecraft of statesmanship played out in a global theater. |
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This reflected her statesmanship and muted her critics when she was accused of intransigency. |
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Leadership and statesmanship come only so often, and unfortunately the current Prime Minister dropped the ball severely on this one. |
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Our parliament should be a model of statesmanship and cooperation, working for the good of all Canadians. |
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That's a tremendously difficult job and it requires a tremendous amount of statesmanship and leadership. |
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But Texas is far from alone in a stunning lack of statesmanship shown in the redistricting process. |
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Dire predictions about government's inability to function were shot down by last-minute acts of statesmanship on Capitol Hill. |
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Whenever a voice was raised in behalf of deliberation and the recognized maxims of statesmanship, it was howled down in a storm of vituperation and cant. |
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The protection of the environment is the definitive test of statesmanship. |
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They have schools of statesmanship which are attended by all who want to be elected to public responsibilities. |
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Good sense and statesmanship were equally reflected in Isabella's will and codicil. |
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The generation of peace after 1871 rested on Germany's irenic temper, served in turn by Bismarck's statesmanship. |
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The agreement testifies to the statesmanship of both presidents and governments. |
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After the euphoria of his release, Mr Mandela needs to demonstrate his capacity for statesmanship. |
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Yet even Mr Erdogan's critics acknowledge that he has displayed remarkable statesmanship over this week's terrible atrocities. |
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It may be that some old personal embitterment or other prevailed over his qualifications of statesmanship. |
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I personally believe the time for statesmanship and leadership was at hand. |
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It is not the mark of either wisdom or statesmanship to think that needed improvements can be made at once or with improvised plans, or with expediency as the guiding force. |
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Disraeli always considered foreign affairs to be the most critical and most interesting part of statesmanship. |
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Once governments realized that fiscal crises could be overcome by devaluing their own coins, the currency became an ever more useful tool of statesmanship. |
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Her anger seemed to be mellowing into statesmanship. |
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This was the chancellor at his most confident, and most plausible, offering just enough goodies to keep the punters happy, but not so many that he surrendered the high ground of prudential statesmanship. |
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He now has the opportunity to reshape the Tories into a one-nation party again, but he will need to cultivate statesmanship, leadership and decision-making skills. |
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As for solidarity, adoption of the fiscal compact is her condition for granting new bail-outs under the permanent euro-zone rescue fund coming into effect this year. Mr Sarkozy accuses Mr Hollande of a lack of statesmanship. |
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In a citizens' vote for the chancellorship, it is true, polls say that Mr Schröder's combination of serious statesmanship and hail-fellow-well-met charm would do for his stiff Bavarian challenger. |
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For their part, the leaders of the country must rise above parochial party interests and show real statesmanship for the sake of their country and their people. |
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I firmly believe that both sides, especially the population, are tired of the conflict and desperate for peace, but it is up to their leaders to show responsibility and statesmanship as we move forward. |
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Reaching agreement on the elimination, or at least withdrawal from active duty, of a category of weapons so clearly designed for another age and time would indeed be a show of statesmanship and leadership. |
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If statesmanship can bring to the common man all the benefits offered by science, it can give him new and now unknown powers of personal satisfaction, political efficiency and social service. |
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New and old security threats combine in the subcontinent to pose daunting challenges, but none that cannot be surmounted by a sustained and result-oriented dialogue, patient diplomacy and statesmanship by both sides. |
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She has linked the two great oceans, after an exhibition of courage, statesmanship and skill, which has never been surpassed in the history of the world. |
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It does not emerge from skilful tactics but from true statesmanship. |
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As the year 1934, an annus horribilis of political murder and bankrupt statesmanship, drew toward a close, Europe had the jitters. |
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The result is a fascinating saga of power politics, murder, betrayal, rulership, instability, violence, statesmanship, and empire. |
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So Netanyahu's best play, against character, is statesmanship. |
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The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship. |
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Otherwise, love it or hate it, this is Shakespeare's tale of love within war and a star-crossed pair who really had no business in combat or statesmanship. |
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To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. |
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