Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) threw an 11th hour curveball in the nomination process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by saying he wouldn't be "comfortable moving on the floor" for a vote without a one-week delay for an FBI investigation, lawmakers went to the cameras and fellow Congressmen to talk out their diplomacies.
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This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences.
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The masques at the baptism of James VI at Stirling Castle in December 1566 involved fireworks and mock sieges.Sarah Carpenter, 'Performing Diplomacies: the 1560s Court Entertainments of Mary Queen of Scots,' in Scottish Historical Review, vol. 82, 2, no.
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30 August: After mass COVID-19 testing in Bhutan, reports came in stating there were 27 more positive cases reported in Phuntsholing. A large-scale strict lockdown was implemented. 31 August: His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck totally sealed the Indian Military Training Team and the Border Roads Organisation, as well as other foreign diplomacies, for 10 days.
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Farmers reported large increases in sales, as Bhutanese buy local produce, due to facing import hurdles. The Vegetable market workers are providing food essentials to foreign diplomacies as well as in remote areas. The authorised persons of Govt. of Bhutan delivering food supplies to Border Roads Organisation unit in Chapcha Preparing to deliver essential supplies by the Govt.
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NLM "Đurđe Crnojević" is located at two sites in Cetinje, in two significant historical mansions built in 1910 for the Italian and French diplomacies in the Kingdom of Montenegro (1910-1918). The former Italian Embassy was built according to the project designed by the Italian architect Corradini, while the former French embassy was designed by renowned French architect Paul Gaudet.
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As Michael Newton, Lecturer in English, University College London, has written, the book is "a brilliant, and often comic, record of the small diplomacies of home: those indirections, omissions, insincerities, and secrecies that underlie family relationships." "[B]rilliantly written, and full of gentle wit," the book is "an unmatched social document, preserving for us whole the experience of childhood in a Protestant sect in the Victorian period....Above all, it is one of our best accounts of adolescence, particularly for those who endured...a religious upbringing."Edmund Gosse, Father and Son, ed. Michael Newton (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), x-xi.
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The Holy League arrangements severely limited the Commonwealth's ability to exercise its options and future reverses can be traced to the failure of the decentralized, ineffective Polish diplomacy to protect through negotiations the country's national interest. King Sobieski, euphoric after the Vienna victory, lacked a sense of realistic political judgment. Neglecting the recovery of Kamieniec, he unsuccessfully attacked the Turks in Moldavia. Then pressed by the Emperor's and Pope's diplomacies he agreed, to motivate Russia to join the war with the Ottoman Empire, to an "eternal" peace treaty with the Tsardom, signed in Moscow in 1686.
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At this point allied forces under Albrecht von Wallenstein were brought in to help keep the Swedes in check. Forced by the combined Polish-Austrian action Gustavus had to withdraw from Kwidzyn to Malbork, in process being defeated and almost taken prisoner by Koniecpolski at the Battle of Trzciana. But in addition to being militarily exhausted, the Commonwealth was now pressured by several European diplomacies to suspend further military activities, to allow Gustavus Adolphus to intervene in the Holy Roman Empire. The Truce of Altmark left Livonia north of the Daugava and all Prussian and Livonian seaports except for Danzig, Puck, Königsberg, and Libau in hands of the Swedes, who were also allowed to charge duty on trade through Danzig.
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