Despite two years of intensive diplomacy alongside Europeans and Asians, the allies have still not agreed on a unified strategy.

He would like to see some intensive diplomacy.

To that end, he vowed intensive diplomacy in the region, including outreach to Iran and Syria.

And she secured their backing, American officials said, for the strategy of "intensive diplomacy backed by a robust military presence."

The North Korea deal, he says, came about after the Bush administration shifted tactics from its confrontational, axis-of-evil posture to intensive multilateral diplomacy.

"I went out there to seek support for our policy, which is intensive diplomacy backed by military force."

It represents the fruits of intensive diplomacy by China, which had been pushing the parties to declare a common goal despite some stark differences in their negotiating positions.

The Bosnian Serbs' latest No came despite intensive diplomacy.

There is reason to think these and other disagreements with NATO can be narrowed with intensive diplomacy.

Yet this American-backed initiative is barely a first step and will require months of intensive diplomacy to generate real progress, officials said.