History does suggest that moments of maximum stress like this can allow the most creative diplomacy.

Your Foreign Minister describes Australia's response to this world as "creative diplomacy".

Since the konseptziya ruled out another Arab attack, Meir preferred retaining Israel's territorial assets to creative diplomacy.

Only when one senior State Department official showed a flare for creative diplomacy did the war caused by big-power failures come to an end.

Bloomberg praised his "creative diplomacy" and use of the US Embassy's Facebook page to criticise the regime.

If the war has settled into a jockeying match about the order in which the terms of Resolution 598 are to be implemented, surely that problem is not beyond creative international diplomacy.

True, brutality in the last decade has led to some creative diplomacy, beginning in 1991 with the invention of an arms inspection system designed to disarm Iraq without bloodshed.

One is to rely on biology, the other is to rely on creative diplomacy, and for now the Bush foreign policy is more biology than diplomacy.

The one area where the U.S. did not rely on biology - but on force, incentives and creative diplomacy - was in Serbia.

Ford's creative diplomacy and bravery have become symbols of US opposition to Assad.