In a statesmanlike way, he has promised to form a government of national unity.
So far Mr Rubin is statesmanlike in public, speaking about American responsibility and self-interest.
But he might be well advised to conclude that waiting until 2014 would be both statesmanlike and expedient.
Obama came across as statesmanlike, above the fray and very much a unifier.
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"I think we should all take a deep breath and wait for the facts, " he advised with statesmanlike solemnity.
As the foregoing remarks indicate, Senator Lott has approached the controversial Chemical Weapons Convention in a fair, reasonable and statesmanlike fashion.
Relations between the two countries had recently deteriorated to the point of playground insults, but leaders were on this occasion more statesmanlike.
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Mr Sankoh, it is surmised, wanted to sound statesmanlike about something else.
But beyond the results, Pellegrini comes across as intelligent, educated (he has a degree in civil engineering) and charismatic, in a statesmanlike sort of way.
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Both stealthy and statesmanlike, Subhas Chandra Bose was India's Scarlet Pimpernel.
Within hours all pretence of maintaining a statesmanlike consensus over the bail-out of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS (formed by the merger of Halifax Building Society with Bank of Scotland) had vanished.
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They have accomplished it in a statesmanlike manner by announcing again and again, even when not asked, that when the time comes to consider impeachment, they will do so, and meanwhile they reserve judgment.
In more statesmanlike tones he warned that leaving the EU would be "hugely destructive of Britain's interests", and he argued - as did Labour leader Ed Miliband in his recent CBI speech - that "our country faces a real and present danger in edging towards the exit".
So-called foreign policy realists, particularly in the academic world, believe that the competing interests of states tend automatically toward balance and require no statesmanlike action by the U.S. To them, the old language of force in international politics has become as obsolete as that of the "code duello, " which regulated individual honor fights through the early 19th century.
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