Statesmanship — once virtuous — has given ground to cynicism.
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One reason for the tech industry's statesmanship strategy is necessity.
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MIAMI — Marco Rubio tried everything to project experience and statesmanship.
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Statesmanship requires the ability to choose between sometimes unpalatable alternatives.
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The Senate was supposed to be the place of statesmanship.
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It set a standard for what great statesmanship looked like.
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It will stoke new concern about the President's unapologetically unpredictable statesmanship.
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One does not assert statesmanship by selling one's soul in public.
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" The Anti-Defamation League praised "his clarion voice, statesmanship and wisdom.
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Statesmanship is such a quaint word because spectacle has replaced it.
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But good statesmanship requires recognizing the limits of what is possible.
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Corporate statesmanship can also backfire if bosses appear too blatantly self-interested.
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But even an act of economic statesmanship might not save the government.
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Some were resolved with statesmanship and others were fought tooth and nail.
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It's abundantly clear, however, that a move toward statesmanship will never materialize.
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No one should look to Ross as a model for senatorial statesmanship.
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"His unpredictability is worrisome in a world that requires steady and mature statesmanship."
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"This is the time for statesmanship," said the former prime minister of Portugal.
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" But compared to his opponents, the newspaper said Kasich has offered "genuine statesmanship.
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"They missed his statesmanship and the kind of leader he is," she said.
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Even before his death, Bush's pragmatism had been elevated to full-blown statesmanship.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. presidential trips are an opportunity to project power and burnish statesmanship.
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This is an opportunity for statesmanship by Mr. Schumer in response to Mr. McCain.
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It was an extraordinary speech, a rare example of transcendent statesmanship and progressive, inclusive oratory.
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The onus is on Beijing's statesmanship to quickly rebalance its crucially important U.S. trade relations.
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Mr Obama thinks that resolutely keeping out of the Syrian quagmire is cold, rational statesmanship.
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Juan Dávalos is a Ph.D. student in Hillsdale College's Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship.
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Of course, Jack Kemp's brand of statesmanship has been long since absent in the Capitol.
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OPINION > American statesmanship is not dead, by Glenn Nye, opinion contributor, The Hill. http://bit.
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During that time I bore witness to an amazingly selfless act of statesmanship and patriotism.
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So President Lincoln is praised for his statesmanship, rather than lambasted (let alone impeached) for corruption.
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He projects confidence and statesmanship in a way completely unavailable to Walker, Ryan, or Trump himself.
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One has to ask when this seamless meshing of statesmanship and merchandising will stop, if ever.
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That still requires a fair bit of statesmanship and leadership on the part of both governments.
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We're under no illusions that in an era of hyper partisanship, greater statesmanship will be easily achieved.
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This couple can't even agree on a core set of values, like fairness, honesty, integrity, or statesmanship.
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She also represents that last generation of senators who were defined by their embrace of bipartisanship and statesmanship.
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Xi's consolidation of power clears the way for him to embark on a bold new period of statesmanship.
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Jeff Ballabon is CEO of B2 Strategic and a senior fellow at the Center for Statesmanship and Diplomacy.
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It was an act of moral clarity married to political possibility, which is what statesmanship is all about.
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"We all would like to see real decorum and statesmanship in the office of the presidency," he said.
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Asked how he thought Israelis were viewing his trip, Mr. Netanyahu expressed optimism that his statesmanship was getting across.
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But compared with other efforts at statesmanship in long-divided countries, it had enduring effects without requiring disastrous bloodshed.
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Such a move would be an act of true statesmanship, forever banishing the image of a callow young man.
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In chapter 25 of his seminal treatise on power and statesmanship, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli lays out a philosophical conundrum.
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"With vision and statesmanship on both sides, this can be done and I am hopeful it will be," Hunt added.
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But Trump's belligerent statesmanship, together with the actions of his soulmate, Russian President Vladimir Putin, could well lame it forever.
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Jonathan Askonas is a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America.
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It will take an act of enlightened statesmanship to change behaviors, and to have that explained to their respective constituencies.
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Housing finance reform requires statesmanship because there are no short-term gains that will accrue to the politicians that lead it.
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That's one reason why some observers believe that the decision on the Iran agreement is more dictated by politics than statesmanship.
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For the United States to counter effectively will require an exercise in global statesmanship and bureaucratic coordination that must begin today.
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Blind confrontation with a nation that possesses a full-scale nuclear arsenal, notwithstanding its other flaws and limitations, is not statesmanship.
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Xenophon's characters seek even bolder rewards in "Oeconomicus," which is often considered an allegorical blueprint for military success and good statesmanship.
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" British Prime Minister Theresa May called Bush "a true friend to the UK...His statesmanship, wisdom and friendship will be much missed.
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As a matter of presidential statesmanship and political prudence, he would be wise to allow the Mueller probe to reach its conclusion.
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The statesmanship strategy—taking lofty stances that enhance their standing among their constituents and trying to house-train the press—carries risks.
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This is a true win-win situation if statesmanship can dominate party pride and the Great Deal Maker can pull it off.
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A DNC chairman emeritus such as Kerry would bring vast experience, stature, credibility, national clout and global statesmanship in opposition to Trump.
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First, the existing definitions of bipartisan leadership, civility, and statesmanship are far too forgiving of racism, homophobia, and other forms of marginalization.
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William Smith is a research fellow and managing director at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at Catholic University of America.
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These dual, and often dueling, native elements of ambition and statesmanship will soon engulf President Donald J. Trump and his unorthodox cadre.
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No one was expecting any epic acts of statesmanship to break out in the Ways and Means Committee Room on Wednesday night.
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Guterres also warned about to "sleepwalk our way into war," saying the solution to the crisis must be political and requires statesmanship.
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In the second act, he set aside the attitude of youthful bravado for more refined statesmanship as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson's BFF.
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Another reason the statesman's character matters is that American notions of political representation assign statesmanship an essential role in the constitutional regime.
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It is not too late to return to statesmanship, decency and civility – but it will take all of us to advance the cause.
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But to bet on a reunified Cyprus implies a faith in Mr Erdogan's statesmanship that the Turkish president has done little to warrant.
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He will embark on a pivot and then wait for everyone to acknowledge his growth, maturity and statesmanship, which you know they will.
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This risky rascal is incapable of delivering steady, sturdy, stable statesmanship affording Americans room to forge better lives for themselves and their families.
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"How to deal with Trump is a test of statesmanship," said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.
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But the senator does try to explain why his fellow conservatives did, tracing the winding path of how "gamesmanship replaced statesmanship" in Washington.
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Here's what you need to know: • It's suspense and statesmanship as President Xi Jinping of China heads to meet President Trump in Florida.
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But Israel deserves a fresh start under a new leader who can imagine the unimaginable and, through statesmanship, honor Rabin's legacy at last.
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In Donald Trump, Clinton faces an opponent who also struggles to meet the expectations of "statesmanship" — and occasionally even gets called out on them.
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At his funeral in Baltimore on Friday morning, great statesmanship — something that feels so distant in the age of Trump — was again on display.
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And while in general there is more to statesmanship than "do popular stuff while avoiding unpopular stuff," it's honestly not a terrible starting point.
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William S. Smith is a research fellow and managing director of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship with the Catholic University of America.
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William S. Smith is managing director and a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America.
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William Smith is a research fellow and the managing director at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America.
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But it represents the abnegation if not nadir of the great tradition of French statesmanship dating back to Richelieu, and offers nothing to Europe.
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But in order to be confirmed, Tillerson must satisfy senators that there is more to him than a businessman eyeing a new challenge in statesmanship.
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And yet, Tillerson, if nominated, will have to satisfy senators that there is more to him than a businessman eyeing a new challenge in statesmanship.
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By early 2014, Boehner was already planning to retire; if there had ever been an opportunity for statesmanship at little personal cost, this was it.
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Extraordinary national leadership like that shown by Tsipras and Zaev has been extremely rare in the Balkans, and they deserve full credit for their statesmanship.
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"How sad that a natural heir to his path, his willpower, his determination and his statesmanship has not been born," one man wrote on Facebook.
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This incredible rigmarole is in stark contrast to the statesmanship displayed by Christian Lindner, a young leader of the center-right Free Democratic Party (FDP).
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Whatever the case, she has now firmly and permanently ceded any claim she ever had to high ground -- and to the art of democratic statesmanship.
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William Smith is a research fellow and the managing director at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship based at the Catholic University of America.
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The Senate is poised to complete its transformation from a chamber of heightened reflection and statesmanship to a scaled-down version of the House of Representatives.
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Additionally I will recall the obstacles that your opponents religiously set before you, conspiring to hinder your progress - which you responded to with stoicism and statesmanship.
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Gil Barndollar is a fellow at Defense Priorities and the Military Fellow-in-Residence at the Catholic University of America's Center for the Study of Statesmanship.
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Similar efforts by chief executives today recall "an earlier era of corporate statesmanship," said Lee Drutman, a fellow at New America, a research and policy institute.
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His utter lack of statesmanship -- and seeming pride in that lack -- speak to why you believe America should have never elected him in the first place.
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But for the most part, unlike other celebrities who aspire to statesmanship, Penn doesn't come off as a do-gooder the way that, say, Bono does.
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The notion of the presidency as an institutional and political concept, with an emphasis on ritual and propriety and semiotic messaging — statesmanship — was quite beyond him.
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They say Mr Modi's adventurism stands in contrast to the statesmanship of his Pakistani counterpart, Imran Khan, who swiftly handed back a downed Indian pilot, Abhinandan Varthaman.
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Basically, what Trump has in mind is a deal to gentrify Northeast Asia's worst "slum" with the whole world watching as he turns statesmanship into real estatesmanship.
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"Today's decision will go down in history as an act of statesmanship that can only bolster President Mugabe's political legacy," Moussa Faki Mahamat said in a statement.
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Partisanship has trumped statesmanship time and time again, as the US endured a few weeks of government shutdown and multiple near-misses with defaulting on its debts.
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This week the party told Chinese public sector managers in education and media to adhere to new rules of party loyalty and "socialist statesmanship" to keep their jobs.
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The implication was that Trump would have to eclipse some arbitrary but higher level of statesmanship, or his claim to fitness for the presidency would be fatally undermined.
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Gil Barndollar is the military fellow-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship and served as a U.S. Marine infantry officer from 2009 to 2016.
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The only Republican senator showing any latent indication of statesmanship today is Mitt Romney, but he has thus far failed to fill the void left by John McCain.
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The visit, which includes a scheduled meeting with Trump at the White House on Monday, also gives him an opportunity to demonstrate statesmanship with a longtime political ally.
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One of the hallmarks of his political philosophy, going back to his Senate run in 2004, has been a belief in transcending partisanship for the sake of statesmanship.
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"I've worked closely with Vice President Biden and I've seen firsthand his legislative ability, his statesmanship, and most importantly his moral fortitude," Feinstein said in a statement Tuesday.
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While running for office, Donald Trump violated every norm of statesmanship built up over these many centuries, and it turned out many people didn't notice or didn't care.
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Deceptive, self-seeking and devious, he was also capable of far-seeing statesmanship (witness his outreach to China) and a genuine concern for America's place in the world.
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We believe that it would be a striking demonstration of the global statesmanship which the United States can summon in the cause of peace, international security and human betterment.
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Clinton struck a very different tone in a speech on Monday, urging "statesmanship, not partisanship" and "clear, rational discussion" on how to protect the United States from terrorist threats.
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But if modern Saudi Arabia was founded by conquest and the skilful statesmanship of Abdulaziz, it has been held together by the revenue from oil, even more than conservative religion.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump faces his most critical week of statesmanship so far -- and it will reflect sharp changes of direction he has already wrought in US foreign policy.
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The two leaders appeared acutely aware of the spotlight upon them: Moon maintained an air of calm statesmanship; Kim occasionally appeared to revel in the attention of the world's media.
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Because such cruelty — especially aimed at fellow Americans — is far beneath the statesmanship, empathy, compassion and basic morality that we rightly expect — and are used to getting — from our presidents.
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So the task of statesmanship should be to reconcile the wisdom in the elite view (of which there is some, here and there) with the wisdom of the wider public.
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But recent history has been kind to Mr. Kohl, if only by showing the contrast between the sort of international statesmanship he stood for and what passes as leadership today.
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But since it is unlikely that the senior leaders meeting in Europe will display mature and competent statesmanship, it is likely that this anniversary will be a gloomy one indeed.
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Up to the nomination of the previously uncontroversial Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Obama's acted, over and over, in the hope that just this once statesmanship will win out.
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The Republican primary fight has devolved into a race to the bottom, achieving something you might have thought impossible: making George W. Bush look like a beacon of tolerance and statesmanship.
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North Korean citizens have few opportunities to learn about what happens outside their country's border, and Kim Jong Un, the country's dynastic dictator, makes Donald Trump's antics seem like seasoned statesmanship.
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Allowing Taiwan to participate fully in the World Health Organization would afford Xi the opportunity to make a badly-needed demonstration of statesmanship and meet China's obligation to the international community.
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"The protection of U.S. national interests in the Middle East and the safety of our friends and allies requires thoughtful statesmanship and aggressive diplomacy rather than unnecessary armed conflict," they wrote.
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"If he can just get beyond that and learn how to bite his tongue and redirect people to something that is important, it will show a level of statesmanship," Carson said.
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"Witness what Henry did in Cambodia — the fruits of his genius for statesmanship — and you will never understand why he's not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević."
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"It's not a partisan issue, it's about right and wrong, it's about behavior, it's about decorum, it's about statesmanship," said Janine Fields, who traveled from Philadelphia with a friend to demonstrate.
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Unless Johnson, who once penned a book called "The Churchill Factor," is suddenly inhabited by an access of statesmanship, he could well become the shortest-lived prime minister in British history.
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Should the university continue to recount the story that school officials told in decades past when they memorialized Wilson for his progressive ideals and statesmanship at home and on the world stage?
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It's only disqualifying for the judiciary, not the Senate where monstrous political behavior and antics are so culturally embedded that it would be unfair to levy standards of uprightness and statesmanship now?
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Mr. Rivlin, 79, has spoken out forcefully against the government's attempts to curb the independence of the courts and the media, and what he called a lack of "statesmanship" under Mr. Netanyahu.
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For the first time since the 1970s, when Britain was branded the sick man of Europe, the country faces a set of serious, potential crises which it will take great statesmanship to avoid.
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" Ira Shapiro, an international trade lawyer and consultant, worked in the Senate and in the Clinton administration, and is the author of "The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis.
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Each of these presidents understood what Roosevelt and Marshall knew implicitly: The successes and failures of the court have turned on acts of statesmanship that are embedded in politics, not apart from politics.
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Ackerman returns to the United States in his last chapter to provide new insights into the Founders' acts of constitutional statesmanship as they met very similar challenges to those confronting populist leaders today.
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His apparent insistence that he should personally lead the deal making after a secret diplomatic process reflects a style of statesmanship that puts him in the spotlight but struggles to deliver big wins.
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But the prize would be great: peace of mind for Ms Aguilar and hundreds of thousands like her, and a feat of statesmanship for a president who so far has none to his credit.
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He was close to giants of post-war statesmanship such as Dean Acheson and the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allen, and used his connections to try to drag Czechoslovakia back into the West's orbit.
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And, perhaps for the same reasons, there are no indications that Trump will comport himself with greater statesmanship, and at least one indication that he will try to keep a lid on what actually transpires.
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Half of the equation is that early presidents were selected for their national reputations for statesmanship (though the success of this was hardly guaranteed — Aaron Burr came much closer to the presidency than anyone expected).
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O'Toole, who has written biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, mostly avoids using Wilson's career to teach a contemporary political lesson or to judge whether his personality got in the way of his statesmanship.
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Now that a much less thoughtful president is about to take over the machinery of surveillance, it would be a final act of statesmanship to pardon the man who alerted us to the dangers ahead.
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" And he wrote his "because we as conservatives -- and conservatism itself -- are in crisis" in a time when "gamesmanship replaced statesmanship" and Republicans "stopped speaking the language of freedom and started speaking the language of power.
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In an address that did not touch on monetary policy, Lagarde honored Schaeuble's commitment to a united Europe and his statesmanship since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, which allowed a divided Germany to reunite.
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In an address that did not touch on monetary policy, Lagarde honored Schaeuble's commitment to a united Europe and his statesmanship since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, which allowed a divided Germany to reunite.
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Others (myself included) told ourselves that this irresponsibility could be mitigated by effective statesmanship, when in reality political conservatism's leaders — including high-minded figures like Paul Ryan — turned out to have no strategy save self-preservation.
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To her critics, the obstinacy of Ms. Syroyid and her like-minded supporters in Parliament is mind-bogglingly irresponsible, the tantrum at the children's table after the adults of European statesmanship had prepared a healthy settlement.
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McConnell, for his part, greeted Trump's White House rant as a welcome act of statesmanship, portraying the President as a latter-day Lyndon Johnson "totally engaged," behind the scenes, in the effort to round up votes.
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A Washington Post editorial on Saturday that branded Trump as "unreliable" and said he should not be rewarded for starting the shutdown, but nevertheless called on Democrats to statesmanship to work toward a compromise, enraged progressives.
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If the talks in Singapore provided Mr. Trump an opportunity to show statesmanship on a grand scale, they did no less for Mr. Kim, whose country has long sought such a meeting with an American president.
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A president with even a pretense to statesmanship would have canceled it — the country was in the middle of what can reasonably be described as a terrorist attack, with someone attempting mass murder against leading Democrats.
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Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Finance Committee and now the longest-serving Republican in the chamber's history, is also keenly attuned to the Senate's traditions of decorum and the veneer of statesmanship.
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The Republican performance in the House impeachment proceedings made crystal clear that there is no Republican Party, only the Trump Party, which conducts itself according to Trumpian standards of civility and statesmanship, meaning like trained seals.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese public sector managers in education and media must adhere to new rules of party loyalty and "socialist statesmanship" to keep their jobs, the latest move to limit dissent in a sensitive leadership transition year.
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Describing those options as "vassalage (or) chaos", he said the situation marked the worst failure of statesmanship since the 1956 Suez canal crisis, when Britain was forced by the United States to withdraw its troops from Egypt.
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JOAKIM REITER Deputy secretary-generalUnited Nations Conference on Trade and DevelopmentGeneva Projecting statesmanship may be necessary for some business leaders (Schumpeter, February 27th), but not if there is something rotten in the overall state of the company.
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Pretending that nuclear strategy is Strangelovian, an evil necessity to be tolerated among a small group of bespectacled weirdos like myself—but not central to national security and real statesmanship—is yet another way of not thinking.
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That's what statesmanship is for — to bridge gaps between complacent winners and angry losers, to weld populism's motley grievances into a new agenda suited for the times, to manifest an elitism that is magnanimous instead of arrogant.
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As a former vice president, he wants to show that he exudes statesmanship but also wants to prove to Democrats desperate to oust Mr. Trump that he has the fortitude and temperament to take on the president.
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Hitler's occasional moments of shrewdness and even statesmanship—in seeing that Stalin would trust him not to invade Russia, or that France was not prepared to fight—made his followers more convinced than ever of his genius.
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On Tuesday, during President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba — the first by a sitting president since Calvin Coolidge in 1928 — amid a series of formal acts of statesmanship, the president did something a little less formal: the wave.
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Exploring the possibility of buying Greenland in order to drill for oil is, by those standards, a sober act of statesmanship that suffers more from technical flaws due to the details of Danish constitutional law than anything else.
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Trump's careful openness to a French effort to broker a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani could be spun as a potential sign of statesmanship and a payoff for his maximum pressure campaign and cool fears of war.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Tuesday for statesmanship to avoid war with North Korea and criticized world leaders stoking resentment over refugees for political gain, two apparent digs at President Donald Trump.
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It is Britain's misfortune that at this moment, when cooperation and statesmanship are needed to prevent political and economic disaster, both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition are known for being cautious, obstinate, unimaginative, tribal and charmless.
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On Sunday, Trump's belligerent form of statesmanship took an unexpected turn as he almost unprecedentedly singled out President Vladimir Putin for blame over the chemical weapons attack in a potentially fateful moment for America's fast worsening relations with nuclear rival Russia.
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The exceptions — two opinions sustaining aspects of Mr. Obama's health care law, one rejecting the Trump administration's efforts to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census — have been hailed as statesmanship by liberals and denounced as treachery by conservatives.
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Clinton called for "statesmanship, not partisanship" in the aftermath of the shooting in Orlando while Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, urged the monitoring of mosques in the United States and reiterated his calls for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
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Xi, though more prone to depart from his talking points than his predecessor Hu Jintao, spent decades navigating treacherous Communist Party politics, and speaks in the formal diction of Chinese statesmanship, where words and linguistic formulae for defining diplomatic relationships matter above all.
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The institutions Trump is trying to destroy were all created under U.S. leadership in the aftermath of World War II. Those were years of epic statesmanship — the years of the Berlin airlift and the Marshall Plan, in which America showed its true greatness.
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But if there was one person holding the mantle of US statesmanship this week, it has been Pence, who met in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before traveling to Singapore and onward to Australia and Papua New Guinea for the summit talks.
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If the pivot toward global statesmanship means Trump can avoid inflaming an already precarious confirmation process, that would satisfy many Republican lawmakers, who are proceeding with caution amid a fraught political moment that coincides with a national reckoning on matters of sexual abuse and harassment.
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Languishing in opinion polls and vulnerable to attacks from within his own conservative party, Turnbull at least woke on Friday to domestic media praise for his perceived statesmanship for refusing to go into details about the call, during which Trump berated him over a refugee resettlement deal.
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Clinton reached for the mantle of statesmanship, Mr. Trump's speech amounted to a rejection of the conventional wisdom that he must remake himself for the November election as a more sober figure and discard the volcanic tone and ethnic and racial provocation that marked his primary campaign.
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The continuing crisis with the neighboring Gulf state of Qatar -- which has been blockaded and isolated by the Saudis and their allies on spurious charges that it backs terrorism and extremism -- also looks reckless for a man trying to project an image of cool-headed statesmanship.
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"We need restraint in our military use, a new focus on diplomacy and statesmanship, to develop human capital, and engagement with others when it comes to tackling foreign problems," he told me, adding that there's a growing push to link US foreign policy with economic populism.
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What it suggests, above all, is the centrality of narrative and imagination to successful statesmanship, and the extent to which it's possible for a very unusual sort of politician to effectively reinvent tradition, synthesize from conflict, and persuade many millions of people to go along with it.
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They then layered on top of that a particular interpretation of the Cold War that grounded US success more in "rollback" theories and aggression than in the inherent flaws of the Soviet empire as an enterprise, the statesmanship of Mikhail Gorbachev, and the fundamental soundness of containment.
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Trump's personal diplomatic blitzkrieg is also an indication of how the President plans to use his position and huge global influence to boost his 2020 hopes by creating powerful political imagery that is quickly embraced by the conservative media machine at home as evidence of great strength and statesmanship.
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The statesmanship and the symbolism the U.S. and China leaders will project on a world stage — by signing a trade deal during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Santiago de Chile less than a month from now — will be one of the brightest pages in the countries' relations.
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Some have praised his statesmanship and decency, while others have criticized his insufficient action during the AIDS epidemic and his role in paving the way for the extreme partisanship of today through campaign methods including an infamously racist ad featuring Willie Horton and aided by his chief strategist, Lee Atwater.
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And while it's much too early to claim that his Chauncey Gardiner–style statesmanship makes for effective foreign policy, it increasingly looks like both sides in this negotiation are desperate to earn his favor, meaning he can say and do whatever he wants, and leaders of Israel and Palestine will keep accommodating him.
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Looking at all that from outside, it seems that Berlin has used the French fiscal difficulties to inflict a real complex of inferiority on a country that, for a long time in the postwar history, showed statesmanship and generosity in bringing a defeated and humiliated Germany back into the European community of nations.
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"Prime Minister Lee had made reference to this history to explain how statesmanship and foresight helped to end the tragic wars that caused great suffering to the people of Indochina, and to bring about the peace and cooperation that the region enjoys today," it said, adding that Lee's references were not new.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the majority of British Indians—like the 60,000 who turned out to welcome Mr Modi at Wembley Stadium in November—lap up his charismatic leadership, strident international statesmanship and savvy PR. Now the selfie-loving prime minister has given adoring fans the chance to grab a photograph with his twin at Madame Tussauds.
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Ever since the late 1940s, when Arthur Vandenberg, a Michigan Republican who spent 22 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, broke ranks with his party and became a powerful advocate for the Truman Doctrine, NATO, and the Marshall Plan, there's been an internationalist, prudential wing of the GOP that believed in bipartisan statesmanship.
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Did it come with the defeat of John McCain in the 2008 presidential election and the conclusion by rank-and-file conservatives that concepts of honor, service, integrity, independence, compromise and statesmanship — the virtues that just saved the G.O.P. from a political disaster of its own devising in Friday's health care vote — were for suckers?
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These actions have all made clear that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has no actual foreign policy, instead supplementing ego and chaos for cool-headed statesmanship.
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Douthat: My take on Newsom is that California will soon pine for the sensible elder statesmanship of Jerry Brown, and that the state as a whole — rich and beautiful but also stratified and balkanized, with its middle class priced out and homelessness and child poverty rampant — is a cautionary tale about the gap between liberal ideals and the possible real-life consequences of liberal governance.
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And somehow the combination of pious obligation joined to cosmopolitanism gave the old establishment a distinctive competence and effectiveness in statesmanship — one that from the late-19th century through the middle of the 1960s was arguably unmatched among the various imperial elites with whom our establishment contended, and that certainly hasn't been matched by our feckless leaders in the years since George H.W. Bush went down to political defeat.
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Roger Cohen With the death of Shimon Peres and the passing of the last of the giants of Israel's foundation a void fills the soul — in part because the peace of which he dreamed has proved elusive, in part because the search for Israeli-Palestinian compromise has reached a low point of repetitive sterility, but above all because statesmanship has now given way among the leaders of Israel to barren tactical maneuver.
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If it was not perfect statesmanship — some leadership staff members thought their point of view might sway more voters if it were published in a less liberal venue — at least the timing was ideal: If they were going to come out on the side of impeachment, better that they do so before Pelosi announced her desire to pursue an impeachment investigation, lest they look as if they were simply following orders from the liberal elite.
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" They said that the "risk of a [Republican nominee] Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE presidency is simply too great," pointing to his "alienation of so many groups" and a "lack of statesmanship that is fundamental to serving in the Oval Office.
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The big picture: President Trump's hamfisted statesmanship and disregard for national security expertise notwithstanding, America's Syria policy from the Obama administration onward has instilled doubts among Middle Eastern and European allies, leading even NATO member Turkey to decisively cross the U.S. What's happening: The U.S. and Turkey announced on Thursday a temporary cessation of hostilities that will allow Turkey to establish a "safe zone" 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) into northern Syria as long as Syrian Kurdish fighters retreat.
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