The intense diplomacy, tough, there are multiple components of that.

Arab leaders have also engaged in intense diplomacy in recent days to try to end the violence.

After intense but quiet diplomacy, Mr. Beaty was released 205 days later.

Such settings provide an opportunity for the kind of personal, often intense diplomacy for which the United Nations seemed initially intended.

The letter came on a day of intense diplomacy in several capitals.

I think that we need intense diplomacy.

Europe's decision to propose the softer resolution came after a week of intense and ultimately fruitless diplomacy at the agency's Vienna headquarters.

The president's speech opened two days of intense diplomacy to enlist more support for his war against terrorism.

He authorized the intense diplomacy that culminated last week in the peace agreement.

The American government, while issuing sober warnings, is also involved in intense diplomacy.