He also managed the actual collapse of the Soviet Union without a shot being fired, using unsmiling but deft diplomacy.

In 1612 he moved to Rome, where with deft diplomacy he moved among influential and cultivated patrons.

But the dread permeating many Arab capitals actually provides an opportunity for deft American diplomacy.

Credit our State Department's counterterrorism chief, Cofer Black, with some deft diplomacy in Ankara.

Technological solutions can be effective only if accompanied by deft diplomacy.

It took another decade and some deft diplomacy before relations were back to anything approaching normal.

With deft diplomacy, many of these almost-nuclear states may well be won over to the new accord.

Cardinal Schonborn, like the Pope, is a staunch conservative on doctrinal matters, but he has handled a deep scandal with deft diplomacy.

Through deft diplomacy, the Bush Administration has managed to preserve two key Middle East policies that for a while seemed inescapably contradictory.

So Americans are entitled to surprise at Kofi Annan's deft diplomacy in Iraq last week.