Word Finder - diplomats

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A person, such as an ambassador, who is accredited to represent a government officially in its relations with other governments or international organisations

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Someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people

On the 5th of August, he recrossed the Vistula and established himself in Saxony, where his presence in the heart of Europe at the very crisis of the war of the Spanish Succession, fluttered all the western diplomats.

His services to America in England and France rank him as one of the heroes of the American War of Independence and as the greatest of American diplomats.

I wish things were so dandy in reality; these foreign diplomats should look at how multi-ethnic their respected countries are.

From the house of Este they received the lordship of Carpi, and later they acquired the fiefs of Meldola, Sassuolo, &c. Many members of the family were distinguished as condottieri, diplomats and ecclesiastics.

Bluff, hearty, good-natured and simple in his habits, yet he always had a high idea of his own kingly dignity, and his really statesmanlike qualities often surprised foreign diplomats, who were deceived by his homely exterior.

We have been urging other countries to expel Iraqi diplomats in order to minimize this threat.

Reuters news agency quotes diplomats in Ivory Coast as saying that they have heard of the hiring of 300 fresh mercenaries.

The militants later claimed they had received their orders from Iranian diplomats stationed in Turkey.

Arab diplomats said the delegation first would go to New York.

Two other council diplomats said a vote was expected early next week.

Mr Kirchner is not advocating another bout of war but has ordered his country's diplomats to pursue the policy more aggressively.

Diplomats estimate Baghdad garners $ 2bn a year by smuggling crude oil over its borders, charging buyers illegal surcharges and demanding kickbacks.

We have no grounds to declare the Iraqi diplomats personas non grata.

Western diplomats fear that economic ties may produce deeper rapprochement.

Insane puppeteers are very valuable, though, since their society needs explorers, traders and diplomats.

Crews exceed 1,000 people and feature multiple civilian crew, scientists and medical personnel, including psychologists and diplomats.

Their threat is taught to us diplomats as an extreme negotiating tactic.

Great Britain was represented by Lord Castlereagh, and under him were the British diplomats who had been attached to the foreign armies since 1813, Clancarty, Stewart and Cathcart.

This expedition did much to free the frontier from Indian raids, gave the Americans a hold upon the north-west, of which their diplomats duly took advantage in the peace negotiations, and later, by giving the states a community of interest in the western lands, greatly promoted the idea of union.

It is one of the most beautiful wateringplaces in America, and is the favourite summer residence of many of the foreign diplomats at Washington.

A scholar and a linguist, he was a match for the diplomats of the Christian powers, against whom he successfully defended the interests of his country.

A cynicism so unblushing shocked even the seasoned diplomats of the congress, who would have preferred that the king should have made a decent show of yielding to force.

While diplomats create treaties, technologists help with their enforcement.

The Copenhagen post gave him, as well as some other diplomats, an exceptional opportunity of watching the principal moving powers of European politics from a point of vantage, as the matrimonial alliances of the Danish royal family occasionally brought together in a friendly family circle the widow of Alexander III, Nicholas II and the Prince of Wales who was to become King Edward VII.

He was not one of those many diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, avoid doing certain things, and speak French.