How to Use statecraft in a Sentence

statecraft

noun

• Buddhism and statecraft have long been joined at the hip.
  — Amar Diwakar, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2018
• So there needs to be carrots and a sort of positive means of statecraft.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
• That’s the kind of statecraft that Harris, who is new to diplomacy, is learning on the job.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
• There is a unique shadow of the future in cyber statecraft.
  — Benjamin Jensen, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• Instead of making artists into agents of statecraft, statecraft should be put to work in the service of art.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Selling weapons for diplomatic ends has long been a tool of statecraft.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• The first is that statecraft, when practiced as Lincoln practiced it, is a noble art.
  — John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
• On the other hand, Trump’s efforts at statecraft on his first day in Saudi Arabia were not quite as overt.
  — vanityfair.com, 20 May 2017
• Two factors explain why the Russia bill will curb the utility of sanctions as a tool of statecraft.
  — chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
• Kiir was thrust into statecraft when the leader and hero of the resistance, John Garang, lost his life in a helicopter crash in 2005.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2017
• In his approach to the carrot-versus-stick equation that is central to statecraft, Donald Trump always opts for the stick.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 June 2019
• Bluffing works in statecraft, but only when your opponent can’t see your cards.
  — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 19 Apr. 2017
• Pushed by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the price cap plan is testing the bounds of statecraft and capitalism.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2022
• The Pope, too, is trying to balance leadership and statecraft, and Zuppi’s mission represents a new phase in his response to the war.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
• In reality, there was all manner of statecraft, and walking on eggshells.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• States, non-state actors, and criminals will not abandon cyber tools as means of statecraft, conflict, and crime.
  — Vince Stewart, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2021
• These virtues of government, as Oakeshott would have termed them, can also be described as the virtues of pragmatism, or indeed statecraft.
  — R.c., The Economist, 9 July 2019
• President Joe Biden has been praised on the left for his deft statecraft and ability to rally our allies against Russia.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Mar. 2022
• Decoding these complex messages, sifting the signal from the noise, is the essence of successful statecraft.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• Lam was the target of an American tool of statecraft and an economic pressure campaign.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
• Yet these are the imperatives of statecraft and aid work when confronted by a crisis of Gaza’s dimensions.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• One of the most daunting challenges of statecraft is how to fashion coherent policy in the midst of a revolution.
  — Hal Brands, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• The president doesn’t court world leaders with statecraft as much as stir up controversy.
  — Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 3 Nov. 2017
• The shift may have been inevitable, given the barbarism of the war, which has claimed thousands of civilian lives, and Russia’s challenge to the conventions and obligations of modern statecraft.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022
• Diplomats dealing with the crisis, for instance, are conducting much of their statecraft on Twitter.
  — Luiz Romero, Quartz, 6 Jan. 2020
• Jahangir also introduced a new festival, when all the nobles were meant to present gems to him as New Year presents (as a form of taxation) – showing that gems were part of statecraft.
  — Kristen Shirley, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Their classes focused more on handwriting than on science and statecraft.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 1 June 2018
• That statecraft, however, was more than just a realpolitik power play.
  — Gordon G. Chang, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
• Control of population was among the first articles of statecraft.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
• And as a result, the U.S. has missed opportunities to move forward through economic statecraft.
  — Stephanie Murphy, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024