If not by force, then by trade or diplomacy.

"Our primary goal will be to take the city by diplomacy," Elend said.

Later the Japanese ended the conflict by diplomacy.

It was a precise commando raid made possible by intelligence, planning, and diplomacy.

At first the British tried to block the German probe by diplomacy.

Technological solutions can be effective only if accompanied by deft diplomacy.

Attempts were made to solve the dispute by diplomacy.

Yet even in failing to end the war by diplomacy, he demonstrated Moscow's indispensability to any new world order.

He followed it up by further personal diplomacy, this time with Russia.

What has all along seemed certain is that the best way to squeeze Iraq is by economic pressure and diplomacy.