In the absence of an agreement, diplomats here initially sought to paper over their differences.

Americans and other diplomats sought a more direct reference to a proposal for an international military response if conditions in Burundi worsened.

So American diplomats have been seeking official United Nations backing for the effort.

British diplomats have generally sought to play down the incident, calling it a police matter.

In other cases, however, such informal diplomats seek to promote a political agenda different from that of the government currently in power.

Then we have the photographic sense, with its synonym of "blowup"; surely that is not what diplomats seek.

However public opinion did not support going to war again, so the diplomats sought diplomatic solutions, but none worked.

Very sadly most diplomats seek retirement jobs in the human right filed and try to keep the terrorism inside the society.

For more than a year, China's top officials and diplomats have sought a leadership role in the region on the strength of the country's booming economy.

The diplomats are also seeking the opening of unconditional dialogue with the ethnic Albanian leadership.