1.   For instance, the U.S. embassy in France sent its diplomats on fewer trips around France for reporting back to the State Department about the French presidential campaign.

2.   Germany is sending low-level diplomats.

3.   The American moves sent diplomats at the United Nations into crisis mode.

4.   The French have sent a diplomat of less than ambassadorial rank for the same reason.

5.   They complained that the department was unresponsive to the demands of two-career couples, especially when sending diplomats abroad.

6.   They get satisfaction from seeing their actions spread out in the headlines and from sending diplomats on planes to Dublin and Belfast and London.

7.   Other countries are invited to send diplomats.

8.   Armitage said over the weekend that he believed India would send some diplomats back to Islamabad and might make a conciliatory military gesture.

9.   Britain and the United States decided Wednesday to send diplomats to the ceremony, upsetting Hong Kong democrats who had hoped for a total boycott.

10.   But since then, some Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, have sent their diplomats back.