Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The skill entailed in leading a state or country.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The skills of being a
statesman , of leading a country well.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wisdom in the management of public affairs
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Examples
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A realistic plan to prevent them from occurring is what people with experience in statecraft call 'strategy,' something Senator Obama has not offered yet.
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A realistic plan to prevent them from occurring is what people with experience in statecraft call 'strategy,' something Senator Obama has not offered yet.
McCain Campaign Gets All Ironic in Obama’s Grill - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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A realistic plan to prevent them from occurring is what people with experience in statecraft call 'strategy,' something Senator Obama has not offered yet.
McCain Campaign Gets All Ironic in Obama’s Grill - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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A realistic plan to prevent them from occurring is what people with experience in statecraft call 'strategy,' something Senator Obama has not offered yet.
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He has three main sets of conclusions: that Elizabeth learned important lessons of statecraft from the bitter failures of her sister Mary's reign, that her attitude to religion was a sincere adherence to what evolved into High Church Anglicanism, and that her attitudes to both marriage and religion were perhaps crucially formed during her residence with her father's last wife and her second husband, Thomas Seymour.
November Books 31 and 32) Two books about Elizabeth I nwhyte 2008
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A realistic plan to prevent [these "dangers"] from occurring is what people with experience in statecraft call 'strategy,' something Senator Obama has not offered yet.
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The European Union, from its beginnings as an experiment in statecraft, has rapidly emerged as a resounding success; yet Americans have so far managed to ignore the geopolitical revolution under way across the Atlantic.
Archive 2005-03-13 Michael Evans 2005
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The European Union, from its beginnings as an experiment in statecraft, has rapidly emerged as a resounding success; yet Americans have so far managed to ignore the geopolitical revolution under way across the Atlantic.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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The goal of our statecraft is to help create a world of democratic, well-governed states that can meet the needs of their citizens and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.
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He took up in statecraft the role of a political Torquemada.
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