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- adjective Not
statesmanlike .
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- adjective not statesmanlike
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Examples
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And the chairman of insurance giant Royal Sun Alliance, John Napier, warned Mr Obama's criticism was "unstatesmanlike" and lacked "balance".
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Didn't presidential adviser David Axelrod, following former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of Obama's changes to fighting the war on terror, call Cheney "unstatesmanlike"?
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(On the other hand, Clinton's polls are up these days, and pursuing this could seem too political and unstatesmanlike.)
Who gets the first subpoena in a Republican-controlled House? Al Kamen 2010
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(On the other hand, Clinton's polls are up these days, and pursuing this could seem too political and unstatesmanlike.)
Who gets the first subpoena in a Republican-controlled House? Al Kamen 2010
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He came on to be confrontative and was a demeaning filibusterer, and clearly unstatesmanlike.
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And how completely unstatesmanlike for him to make these type of divisive comments.
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The threats emanating from Clinton are certainly unstatesmanlike, and I would say damaging to American interests.
The Iran Consensus Grows More Dangerous William M. Arkin 2008
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If America's Mullahs believe sending out Sarahcuda to attack Obama in the most unstatesmanlike fashion is going to reverse this, one can only revel in the Mullahs being shown the door in 31 short days.
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If opponents can find no reason or means to oppose her nomination other than shrill-sounding and unstatesmanlike rhetoric, opposition may in the long run not be such a good idea.
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Keynes also devoted eloquent, penetrating prose, in describing the corrupt atmosphere of the Versailles arrangement and in particular Lloyd George’s debasing and unstatesmanlike conduct.
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