India's changing relationships regarding energy are inspiring a delicate diplomatic dance with the United States.

The question now is, how long can this elaborate diplomatic dance around a rejected plan go on?

So it began: the endless diplomatic dance.

First, because of it, France and England end a tense diplomatic dance, finally resolving not to recognize the Confederacy.

The constant diplomatic dance with the Chiar had been a daily strain.

The daily diplomatic dance in the corridors of the United Nations over war on Iraq hardly receives a mention on the tabloid covers here.

There had been an awkward diplomatic dance on the days since Mr. Vajpayee's statement.

Yet the long diplomatic dance may have produced something more durable, a genuine dialogue in which the parties listened, as well as talked.

Franklin turned out to be quite good at the French diplomatic dance.

His head bobbed in a diplomatic dance of noncommitment.