The moment has arrived when the noblest statesmanship is required. From Wordnik.com. [London: Saturday, May 13, 1865] Reference
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. From Wordnik.com. [Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?] Reference
“The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Barbara Boxer Wants You To Know She’s Not Insecure, Unlike All You Losers Out There] Reference
American statesmanship is not only difficult, but it touches close upon several dangerous issues. From Wordnik.com. [Reconstruction, British and American] Reference
But, of course, diplomacy and statesmanship is something Republicans wouldn't know anything about. From Wordnik.com. [Pelosi blasts, McCain defends Bush comments] Reference
Neither has he been regarded as specially proficient in statesmanship, or deeply versed in constitutional law. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse on the Occasion of the Death of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Well, not only in statesmanship, not only in educational work, but in journalism, he has been prominent in the life of China. From Wordnik.com. [Present Conditions In China] Reference
I always believed you would achieve the highest position in English statesmanship, and I don't despair of your doing so still. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2] Reference
Great statesmanship is needed in Asia to build the proper kind of organization that can bring a Rule of Law and stability to the area. From Wordnik.com. [Law and Survival] Reference
In 1945, the world witnessed a remarkable exercise in statesmanship, with the decision to build a modern democracy in post-war Germany. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of European Integration and German-Canadian Relations] Reference
The admirable system of Fascist education provides for training in statesmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Fascism] Reference
One of the things I most admire about your statesmanship is your patient willingness to teach. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Letter to President Obama: Repairing Democracy] Reference
Sure it's called statesmanship and it would involve rational debate offering up solid choices. From Wordnik.com. ["A calculated gamble that no matter how much hue and cry his new strategy may provoke, in the end the American people will give him more time..."] Reference
So, set it down at the start, that your statesmanship is a luxury to be cultivated in moments of leisure. From Wordnik.com. [Tattlings of a Retired Politician] Reference
That is the idea of something called statesmanship, some concern about the public and the national interest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007] Reference
It was thus that the ten earlier years of Pitt's rule marked a new point of departure in English statesmanship. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) Modern England, 1760-1815] Reference
He possessed, beyond any other American Judge, save Marshall, what may be termed the statesmanship of jurisprudence. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference
That's the kind of statesmanship we need everywhere in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Philadelphia Speech] Reference
It is what the politicians call "statesmanship", but statesmen call it by a harder name. From Wordnik.com. [The Present Condition of England] Reference
This is the kind of statesmanship that the country has lacked under the rule of the National Party. From Wordnik.com. [PRELIMINARY STATEMENT ON MARCH 28 COMMEMORATION SERVICE] Reference
That one act of "statesmanship" cost the country untold millions of dollars and many thousands of lives. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
Unfortunately, this bit of "statesmanship" by our man John is going to look tough in the eyes of his low-life supporters. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Announces That Lieberman And Graham Are Going To Georgia] Reference
More 'statesmanship' needed on Arctic issues: Expert. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Leaders need to show more 'statesmanship' on Arctic issues: Expert. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
What kind of statesmanship, or learning, or experience, could make. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist] Reference
"Both sides are still playing brinksmanship instead of statesmanship, which is a dangerous game. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mr Bush's speech came as EU leaders urged the US to show "statesmanship" for the sake of the world economy. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie] Reference
In that kind of statesmanship there will be a premium on inventiveness, on the ingenuity to devise and plan. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
"statesmanship" that apparently impressed them most. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Yeah, that’s the kind of statesmanship I want in a potential leader of the free world. From Wordnik.com. [In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Hockey mom for vice president? You’ve got to be kidding me] Reference
But why should statesmanship be considered cynically?. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Hart: It Is Still Possible] Reference
Between bursts of bombast, Gingrich was capable of statesmanship. From Wordnik.com. [How Clinton Lost The Capital] Reference
Reawakening memory requires statesmanship and a knowledge of history. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Hart: The Hidden Costs of Warfare and the Prophet Jeremiah] Reference
This November, Clinton was hoping to receive some credit for his statesmanship from voters. From Wordnik.com. [Shattering Peace] Reference
Other than eliminating war, there can be no greater ambition for international statesmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Our 'war on drugs' has been an abysmal failure. Just look at Mexico] Reference
Yet as the years passed, more Americans came to see the pardon as an act of unusual statesmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Ford's Long Shadow] Reference
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