People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.
a diplomat is a person who handle his mother and wife at the same time without hurting any of them.
You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.
I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.
Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
