6 sentences with 'diplomat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word diplomat and other words derived from it.
• « Much of the credit was due to an astute diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, himself a former official under Napoleon, who persuaded the other representatives to include France as an equal partner rather than an enemy to be punished. »
• « Persia was saved from royal invasion in large part because of what one British diplomat called the "great game": the battle for influence in the region in the name of preserving British dominance over India on the one hand, against the expansion of Russian power on the other. Neither European power would allow the other to actually take control of Persia as a result. »
• « Jefferson, who had returned to the United States in 1790 after serving as a diplomat in France, tried unsuccessfully to convince Washington to block the creation of a national bank. He also disagreed with what he perceived as the favouritism accorded to the commercial classes in major American cities. »