"muscle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Governments regularly campaign to influence the selection of top United Nations officials, using whatever diplomatic muscle they have.
- American lives would be at risk in a protracted entanglement where American policy never came into play and American diplomatic muscle was never applied.
- China has the diplomatic muscle to resist trade and currency concessions that might undermine its competitive edge.
- And these programs rarely enjoy the kind of diplomatic muscle that might force autocratic leaders to agree to political liberalization.
- Assassinations had been a rare but real alternative to more complex exercises of diplomatic muscle.
- Washington, after establishing relations with Hanoi, should exert its diplomatic muscle as an intermediary between China and Vietnam.
- It will take a concerted international show of diplomatic and economic muscle.
- Certainly the U.S. should ask the U.N. to condemn the invasion and send in observers, but more diplomatic muscle is needed.
- I think that Member States now have a moral obligation to flex the full extent of their diplomatic and political muscle with Israel to end this violence.
- This is a serious shortcoming that particularly affects smaller Member States, who lack the diplomatic muscle of the larger nations.
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