During the period of the truce the archdukes, who were wise and statesmanlike rulers, did their utmost to restore prosperity to their country and to improve its internal condition.
Mr. Stivers was a man of strong personality, indomitable will-power, and diplomatic and statesmanlike qualities, which made him a commanding figure in Orange County politics and journalism.
I had a talk with the venerable Alexandre Ribot, head of the group of the Moderate Republican Party, a refined gentleman of the old school, and of thoroughly statesmanlike appearance.
This is an advantage over a system that tends to keep in office ministers and ambassadors who are ill equipped to bring statesmanlike qualities to their work, though they may be past-masters in routine and social requirements.
He was then in his seventies, a large, statesmanlike figure of distinguished appearance.
In the leading cities of these countries he made addresses that werestatesmanlike and internationally tactful.
Benedict was a wise and statesmanlike ruler, to whom men came with confidence from every rank and every race, to be his disciples, or to place their boys under him for instruction.
A statesmanlike policy would be to aid the formation of that minority--to strengthen it that it may become a majority, to create, to hasten, to swell the reaction for which we hope.
I expected much toward the restoration of the fatherland from the statesmanlike shrewdness and ability of Herr von Schorlemer, who was always quite conscious of the goal at which he was aiming.
Whether altogether through foresight and statesmanlike deliberation, or in part at least through what might almost be called accidental influences, is still a little uncertain.
The practical and statesmanlike action for all those concerned is to endeavour to render these institutions as efficient educational agencies as may be possible.
Who ever heard any of her advocates speak a manly and statesmanlike language?
It is a rule for which no statesmanlike reason can be given; it is a mere technical rule; and it has already been so much relaxed that, even considered as a technical rule, it is absurd.
D'Argenson had conceived certain bold and statesmanlike views with regard to the position of Saxony.
For no political reason whatever, the King had set his heart upon a campaign in Flanders; and to that desire his own interest, the interest of his allies, and every statesmanlike consideration must of necessity yield.
I congratulate you upon the broad and statesmanlike attitude with which you treat this very important subject.
In their governmental capacity the oidores frequently enacted measures and made recommendations of a statesmanlike character, although they did not always succeed in enforcing them.
On the contrary, it may be often noted that as a resultant of this system, men and acts of an exceedingly well-balanced and statesmanlike character were produced.
The closer any statesmanlike mind looks into the question, the more favor our plan finds with it.
For although he was courteous and statesmanlike and suave, he was passionately attached to his own opinions, and generally saw to it that they prevailed.
The only statesmanlike alternatives were, to win his friendship by generous treatment, or to crush him to the earth so that he could not rise to deal another blow.
It gained a few years' respite for the despairing Hapsburgs, and gave tardy satisfaction to Talleyrand's statesmanlike scheme of a Franco-Austrian alliance which should be in the best sense conservative.
Two months earlier, Talleyrand had sent him a memorandum on the subject of a Franco-Austrian alliance, which is instinct with statesmanlike foresight.
Ulster might be wrong, but her conviction was rooted, and Ministers had aroused forces which could only be pacified by a broad and statesmanlike treatment which they had given no indications of being able to adopt.
In its principle, details, and machinery it was a wise and statesmanlike measure; whenever the Government made any proposal towards peace it was treated as a hypocritical sham.
He had courage, vision, enterprise, and statesmanlike views for the development of his domain.
On the other hand there have been those who have credited him with a high-minded and statesmanlike design of promoting the welfare of Cuba by securing stability of local government under the best men.
The measure was statesmanlike and successful; it was undoubtedly aided by the loyalty of the Welsh to their own Tudor dynasty.
His plan of action lay within the limits of statesmanlike moderation[36].
This was a wise and statesmanlike attitude and was shared by Adams in London.
This fierce, brave, and statesmanlike race held a strip of the watershed from Lake Champlain to the Allegheny River.
Pitt died on May 11, and the chance of a statesmanlike policy disappeared.
The English were no longer conducting a great struggle for a statesmanlike ideal, as they had been under Edward I--however impossible he himself had made its attainment.
A department of the State is well governed only when its chief Civil Servant, by the grace of God, chances to be a man of statesmanlike capacity.
