Statecraft Definition

Statecraft Sentence Examples

• It is hard to build up a reputation for statecraft for either Henry or Wolsey on the sum total of English political achievement during their collaboration.

• In the East all such traits are exaggerated, a result perhaps rather of the statecraft than of the religions of Egypt and Persia.

• Thus Portugal in 1807, like Venice in 1797, was to provide the means for widely extending the operations of his statecraft.

• He was a celebrated gourmet, and his dinners were utilized by Napoleon as a useful adjunct to the arts of statecraft.

• The other, territorially distinct from it for reasons of statecraft, was the Temple of Roma and Augustus, to which the inhabitants of the 64 Gallic cantons in the three Roman provinces of Aquitania, Lugudunensis and Belgica - the so-called Tres Galliae - sent delegates every summer to hold games and otherwise celebrate the worship of the emperor which was supposed to knit the provincials to Rome.