We can delay arming the station until all possible diplomatic avenues are exhausted.

When the violence in Kosovo began in early 1998, we exhausted every diplomatic avenue for a settlement.

When he spoke at cabinet on March 17, Brown was very clear that the government had to exhaust all diplomatic avenues.

But they want to make sure that all diplomatic avenues are tried out.

So people say, Have we exhausted all the diplomatic avenues?

"I'd like to see all diplomatic avenues exhausted before we go to war."

Believing diplomatic avenues had reached a dead end, Sadat focused on taking decisive military action.

Then there's the phrase about "not winning the peace through war" and the one about diplomatic avenues being "far from exhausted."

Should you be prepared to use violence if a diplomatic avenue does not lead to the concessions demanded of Saddam Hussein?

Congress must make clear its expectation that all diplomatic avenues be thoroughly explored.