statecraft

At any rate, it was simply statecraft on my part.

She had a way with all men, and was gaining in statecraft each day.

What does acting have to do with politics and statecraft?

But then, by happy accident, a new form of statecraft was born.

Feelings like that were weapons of statecraft, things to be used.

And in fact, the music of statecraft hardly exists today.

But Americans do not expect their president to practice lust and statecraft at the same time.

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready.

In America that principle of democratic statecraft is made formal.

He was also trained in the statecraft and the art of governance by his father from a young age.

The task calls for fairness and statecraft of the highest order.

As I once said, you have an instinct for statecraft."

Is this the kind of statecraft you think will make you king?

He saw it as simply another act of statecraft.

President Bush, inexperienced as he is in war and statecraft, may be tempted to act quickly.

War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft.

The girl had enough statecraft to see what the General had yet to realize.

"As a woman matters of statecraft are beyond your judgment.

This does not mean that a political memoir need be a dry account of statecraft.

It was clear at once that American statecraft, domestic politics and popular consciousness would not go on as before.

Right and wrong assumed different values at this level of statecraft, didn't they?

This was more an exercise in politics than statecraft.

He was a very learned man well versed in philosophy and statecraft.

"For now, I'm perfectly content to continue learning statecraft at your side.

Here, we submit, is one difference between statecraft and the political theater that has turned off so many voters.