adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
diplomatic bag
diplomatic corps
diplomatic immunity
diplomatic posting
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a diplomatic posting
diplomatic pressure (= pressure from other countries' governments )
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The announcement of a ceasefire came after intense diplomatic pressure from the US.
diplomatic protocol
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a breach of diplomatic protocol
diplomatic relations ( also international/foreign relations ) (= official relations between two countries )
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By then, Canada and Britain had established diplomatic relations with North Korea.
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This visit was the President’s most important breakthrough in international relations.
Diplomatic Service
diplomatic ties
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the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries
diplomatic triumph
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a tremendous diplomatic triumph for France
international/diplomatic/political isolation
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the country’s continuing political isolation
rescue/diplomatic/fact-finding etc mission
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a group of US congressmen on a fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland
restore (diplomatic) relations with sb
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Vietnam restored diplomatic relations with South Korea on December 22.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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I was pleased that he was more diplomatic afterwards instead of being as over the top as ever.
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A more diplomatic approach can pay off.
■ NOUN
activity
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Prior to Gorbachev's visit there had been intense diplomatic activity between the two countries.
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The Tokyo meeting was preceded by a great deal of diplomatic activity during May.
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Whether diplomatic activity should be shielded from the public gaze is a matter for debate.
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The potential for the fighting to spill over into a wider regional conflict has triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity .
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Yesterday Arab leaders were engaged in a flurry of diplomatic activity to coordinate their positions in advance of Mr Christopher's visit.
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The Paris meeting had been anticipated by heightened diplomatic activity .
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In early 1991 there was an unprecedented degree of diplomatic activity between the two countries.
bag
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Without ciphers and diplomatic bags , espionage and counter-espionage actions were likely to be circumscribed.
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The Foreign Office had a contract with the prison to launder diplomatic bags .
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It arrived via the diplomatic bag on Saturday morning.
channel
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The diplomatic channel was generally used, and few bilateral treaties dealt with the subject.
contact
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Hurd flew to the Gulf on Aug. 31 to pursue diplomatic contacts .
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Moreover, this growth of diplomatic contacts was a two-way process.
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The best hope that Kampuchea can be spared more agony is the gathering weight of diplomatic contact .
corps
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For all of its own bureaucratic strictures, the diplomatic corps had the sympathetic ears that Liang was looking for.
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In Chongqing, Joe sought out contacts who could introduce him to the upper levels of the government and diplomatic corps .
effort
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Devoting maximum diplomatic effort to dilution and delay.
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But there were no outward signs that diplomatic efforts would soon defuse the fighting.
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Considerable diplomatic efforts were by now under way to end the fighting, though only one intervention now bore fruit.
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Every diplomatic effort was made to get him and his army to retire back over the frontier, but without success.
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Instead, officials intend to try turning up the pressure through sanctions and continued diplomatic efforts .
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Against that background, diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the impasse intensified.
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The coming months will see considerable diplomatic efforts channelled in that direction.
immunity
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Socially, we benefited from a sort of diplomatic immunity .
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A principle as old as ancient tribes and almost as remotely understood, diplomatic immunity is taking a beating this week.
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Embassy officials have said that Makharadze, an economics minister, had diplomatic immunity .
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It was an outrageous action, the worst violation of the basic principle of diplomatic immunity in modern history.
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State Department officials said Monday that no country has agreed to waive diplomatic immunity in such a serious case.
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Both are protected by diplomatic immunity .
incident
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Then, in Hong Kong, Chris Patten and family were reunited with their beloved terrier whose disappearance caused a diplomatic incident .
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The looming enforced removal of Mr Ozberk, 30, has the makings of a diplomatic incident .
initiative
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By October 1989, therefore, the time was right for a concerted diplomatic initiative against drift-net fishing.
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Prospects for diplomatic initiatives - US-Soviet statement Amid renewed calls for an immediate ceasefire there were reports of continued diplomatic initiatives.
isolation
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Economic sanctions, the cultural and sporting boycotts, and diplomatic isolation must be maintained and intensified.
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Kim Il Sung also found the dialogue with the South to be beneficial, especially in breaking out of his diplomatic isolation .
language
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The letter's painstakingly constructed diplomatic language continued to cause translation problems, even after both sides had agreed it.
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This is diplomatic language for joint hegemony and a proposed sellout of the Peloponnesian League.
links
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Nevertheless the political and diplomatic links which bound her to the rest of the continent were slowly multiplying and becoming stronger.
mission
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Only VIPs and foreign diplomatic missions are given permission to utilise such dishes.
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Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
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They are considered attaches to the diplomatic mission there and are not armed.
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The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information.
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A token number of official diplomatic missions is desirable but not essential.
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Crucial to the success of diplomatic missions were first the quality of the ambassadors and secondly the political intelligence.
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It has nine permanent diplomatic missions abroad.
post
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If the profession had declined into almost insignificance it is doubtful whether there would have been such a burgeoning of diplomatic posts .
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It was often difficult to persuade able men to accept diplomatic posts in distant capitals.
pressure
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Mahdi denies that his movement wants weapons or financing from Washington, saying moral support and diplomatic pressure are enough.
protest
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New Zealand regularly sent diplomatic protests at the start of each series of tests.
recognition
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He had hoped for concessions in return, including diplomatic recognition .
representative
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The use of soldiers as diplomatic representatives was far from unknown before the nineteenth century.
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Madame Bihi was a longstanding diplomatic representative who had been appointed by the government of President Barre.
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Franklin Roosevelt had maintained a diplomatic representative in Vichy from the outset.
service
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Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged.
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He retired in 1809 after twenty-six years in the diplomatic service .
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They were even more alarmed by hostility to the papal diplomatic service .
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There is a shortage of suitable recruits in the diplomatic service , which offers varied experience abroad and a good career structure.
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Two years later a new commercial diplomatic service was created.
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Usually diplomatic services and foreign offices in this respect merely reflected the societies they served.
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The mechanism could still be operated satisfactorily by diplomatic services which were small and content to remain so.
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The establishment of permanent ambassadors marked the beginnings of a diplomatic service .
skill
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Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about.
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Intense prayer, along with astute technical and diplomatic skill , was dedicated to this problem.
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A top flight soldier with diplomatic skills would fit the bill.
solution
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There were those who argued that such action would alienate world opinion and sabotage the chances of a diplomatic solution .
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Leclerc preferred a diplomatic solution to a larger conflict.
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A cooler customer, it is suggested, would somehow have sought and found a diplomatic solution .
source
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According to diplomatic sources up to 300 people were killed in the violence.
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Journalists and diplomatic sources , however, cast doubt on the government's version.
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As recently as September Western diplomatic sources maintained that civil flights would infringe the zones.
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The Independent of Feb. 27 cited diplomatic sources as stating that 44 elected representatives had been imprisoned since the previous May.
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According to diplomatic sources , Baker warned that failure to address the charges could derail the peace process.
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According to diplomatic sources , Mbonimpa had been opposed to the moves by President Buyoya to include Hutus in the government.
status
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Nevertheless the steep decline which her diplomatic status had suffered since the Crimean War was arrested.
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Baya was questioned that day and, because of his diplomatic status , released.
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Both groups would have diplomatic status .
tie
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It was hoped to open the border and renew diplomatic ties by the end of 1991.
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Fifthly, non-diplomatic personnel are increasingly either having diplomatic influence or being involved in activity affecting diplomatic ties .
traffic
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So the Council had control both of outgoing and of incoming diplomatic traffic .
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Together, on a daily odd-even basis, they were responsible for diplomatic traffic .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
charm/diplomatic offensive
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But then Sunderland came up with a new offer and Liverpool launched a fresh diplomatic offensive .
the Diplomatic Service
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A good secretary needs to be efficient, and above all diplomatic .
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He joined the diplomatic service and was posted to Ankara.
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Jen tried to be diplomatic as she explained the problem.
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Most members of the European diplomatic community have already left the country as war now seems inevitable.
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Robert's next diplomatic assignment was at the Paris embassy.
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Robson was trying to be as diplomatic as possible - he didn't want to risk losing a promotion.
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The governments of Britain and Syria are anxious to re-establish diplomatic relations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In Chongqing, Joe sought out contacts who could introduce him to the upper levels of the government and diplomatic corps.
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Moreover, this growth of diplomatic contacts was a two-way process.
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The car was unmarked, there were no military or diplomatic plates, no official driver, no bodyguard.
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The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.
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The mechanism could still be operated satisfactorily by diplomatic services which were small and content to remain so.