Statesmanship
['steɪtsmənʃɪp] or ['stetsmənʃɪp]
Definition
(n.) The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
Checker: Marty
Examples
- But the trouble with them is that the psychology is weak and uninformed, distorted by moral enthusiasms, and put out without any particular reference to the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So even if the Commission had drawn splendid plans for housing, work conditions, education, and play it would have done only part of the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Statesmanship would go out to meet a crisis before it had become acute. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- More than any other generalization it illuminates the currents of our national life and explains the altering tasks of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We can use it, I believe, as a guide post to statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He is a foretaste of a more advanced statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Conservation had the virtue of arising out of a provident statesmanship, but its problems were largely technical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But far from being the scheming hypocrite his enemies say he is, Mr. Bryan is too simple for the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such a statesmanship would in the '80's have prepared for the trust movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Without it there would to-day be no demand for a creative statesmanship which turns its back upon the routine and the taboo, kings and idols, and non-human purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To think of the whole nation: surely the task of statesmanship is more difficult to-day than ever before in history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That is why their issues are so sterile; that is why the absorption in next steps is a diversion from statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The clever choice of issues influences all politics from the petty manoeuvers of a ward leader to the most brilliant creative statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But creative statesmanship requires a culture to support it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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