So, is this just the diplomatic equivalent of drunk driving?

Magno sees the Chinese as responding with the diplomatic equivalent of "the penalty of death by a thousand cuts."

That is the diplomatic equivalent of baby talk.

The general apparently answers him with the polite diplomatic equivalent of put it in your ear.

A week of summitry and speeches by President Obama resulted in the diplomatic equivalent of a bulls-eye.

It is one of the ironies of the gathering that Iraq apparently will escape here with little more than the diplomatic equivalent of a wrist-slap.

Tinkering with the status of Taiwan is the diplomatic equivalent of handling nitroglycerin.

New Missile Is Shelved In the diplomatic equivalent of an employee telling his boss, "You can't fire me.

But the current state of the Middle East peace process, now breathing only with the diplomatic equivalent of a heart-lung machine, shows how hard negotiations can be.

But no attempt to portray the Cairo gathering as somehow the diplomatic equivalent of a labor-management bargaining session could negate its seminal nature.