How to Use statecraft in a Sentence

statecraft

noun
  • This is both sound statecraft and a moral duty.
    — Ekrem Imamoglu, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Failure could raise doubts about his statecraft.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • So there needs to be carrots and a sort of positive means of statecraft.
    — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Selling weapons for diplomatic ends has long been a tool of statecraft.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Western countries need to adopt a statecraft that reduces this risk.
    — Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Since ancient times, fashion choices made by politicians have been a form of statecraft.
    — Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Bluffing works in statecraft, but only when your opponent can’t see your cards.
    — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 19 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • The first is that statecraft, when practiced as Lincoln practiced it, is a noble art.
    — John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • In reality, there was all manner of statecraft, and walking on eggshells.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 27 May 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
  • The president doesn’t court world leaders with statecraft as much as stir up controversy.
    — Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Truly excellent books have been written about statecraft and power from the inside.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
  • States, non-state actors, and criminals will not abandon cyber tools as means of statecraft, conflict, and crime.
    — Vince Stewart, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Two factors explain why the Russia bill will curb the utility of sanctions as a tool of statecraft.
    — chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
  • One of the strangest stories in contemporary statecraft refuses to go away.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 18 Feb. 2026
  • After a half-century in which energy was not a tool of statecraft, complacency set in.
    — John Kerry, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Control of population was among the first articles of statecraft.
    — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
  • 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
  • Lam was the target of an American tool of statecraft and an economic pressure campaign.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Decoding these complex messages, sifting the signal from the noise, is the essence of successful statecraft.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Diplomats dealing with the crisis, for instance, are conducting much of their statecraft on Twitter.
    — Luiz Romero, Quartz, 6 Jan. 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
  • Otherwise, these tools of economic statecraft are likely to be applied on an ad hoc basis and in response to special pleading.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The primary goal of Iranian statecraft, Margaret, is survival of the regime.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • About cross-cultural differences, statecraft, chaos, about war never changing, and about getting my ship the Erasmus back.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024

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