Example sentences for: holbrooke

How can you use “holbrooke” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A courtier worthy of Shakespeare, Holbrooke is legendary for his flattery and back stabbing, and even for buttering someone up and sticking the knife in at the same time.

  • The NYT reports that the American negotiator Richard Holbrooke did not persuade Milosevic to allow the international war crimes tribunal to have jurisdiction in the region, and the LAT passes along the concerns of some analysts that the Serbs might take some observers hostage, thus boxing out NATO's ability to deter Milosevic via the threat of airstrikes.

  • Incidentally, one of the matters Holbrooke tended to this weekend besides crimes against humanity was the allocation of Bosnian area codes.

  • And "TRB" ridicules secretary of state candidates Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell as "archetypes of the Washington Male"--self-important, humorless, and not as smart as they think.

  • The patrols, explains the paper, were first proposed by the Russians but have since been embraced by the U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, who stresses that the two countries are now working together to defuse the Kosovo crisis.


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