Managing it without loosening Washington's alliance with Seoul would require statesmanship of the highest order.
Critics may say this latest foreign adventure is part of a quest for statesmanship.
And President Saakashvili speedily conceded defeat, an act of statesmanship for which he deserves credit.
Through strategic patience and creative statesmanship, Tokyo can tilt this game to its benefit.
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"Witnessing almost daily his exemplary statesmanship is one of the highest privileges I've had here, " he said.
Yet Mr Obama and his party seem a model of fiscal statesmanship compared with their Republican opponents.
Unlike our era, this one also saw statesmanship and high-principled public debate of a grandeur and significance never equaled since.
He has served that office with great dignity, but also with honesty, compassion, wit, intelligence, patience and statesmanship.
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It would be quite a contrast: Extreme political hackdom versus something resembling statesmanship.
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It is there, but farsighted statesmanship and the necessary political will are not--yet.
Sometimes, statesmanship consists of having the courage to take the first step even when you cannot see the next.
We achieved this feat by replacing classical liberal statesmanship with a Vote-Yourself-Entitlements-Funded-By-Others culture.
But what Mr Wade's supporters praise as his vision and statesmanship, his critics see as a tendency towards megalomania or autocracy.
So it was that last week found Gingrich preaching statesmanship as he stumped for Republican candidates in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio.
It wasn't the most confident or the most convincing display of statesmanship.
Yet, if statesmanship means anything, it should be a refusal to pander.
Mr Cameron's efforts were applauded by a succession of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, one - John Redwood - saying he had shown "excellent statesmanship".
They say he will soon start to demonstrate the statesmanship that only a politician free of further ambition and of domestic rivals can aspire to.
But bogged down in Iraq, and shorn of congressional support, Mr Bush will have to find new reserves of statesmanship to make use of these advantages.
To avoid all this, help its own economy and, once again, win plaudits for economic statesmanship, China should loosen the yuan peg, and do it now.
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Statesmanship and good luck will be needed to craft a new mission for the EU, and the Union has not been blessed with either in recent times.
The Olympics are a very good bit of theater, and a thrilling athletic spectacle, but as a substantive venue for statesmanship and diplomacy they are basically worthless.
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Mr Raby said "what's extraordinary about Cyrus, is that he appears as a paragon of princely statesmanship in the two pillars of Western cultures, that is the Greco-Roman tradition and the Bible".
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Obama won by ignoring the general welfare and specifically targeting the special interests that would give him enough votes to win no idealism or statesmanship there, just the ruthless political calculation of divide and conquer.
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In 2007 Germany assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union (for six months) and presided over the G8 summit of the world's biggest economies, allowing Ms Merkel to display a flair for statesmanship.
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That is the challenge before the global statesmanship.
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Moscow-Washington entente as exhibiting exemplary statesmanship.
He had just been defeated by Bill Clinton it was in that lame-duck period between election and inauguration day and in an act of statesmanship and decency, President Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to control the militias, stabilize the country and distribute food and medicine.
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