11.  Reputation around town Sheriff Ellett paused while trying to think of a diplomatic way to describe Roger Matthews.

12.  That may not be the most diplomatic way to encourage the ever cautious Japanese.

13.  The diplomatic way to handle this is to tell your boss in advance that you need some personal time off.

14.  The tapes also reveal that Kennedy, and virtually Kennedy alone, was searching for a diplomatic way out of the crisis almost from its outset.

15.  They have to be able to deliver bad news in a diplomatic way.

16.  They responded that they had no instructions, a diplomatic way of saying they would not object.

17.  Bulgarian justice officials said they would seek diplomatic ways of bringing the two accused smugglers to trial.

18.  But Murphy suggested the travel warning was only a diplomatic way out of the travel ban.

19.  He described the talks as candid, which is a diplomatic way of saying there was some disagreement between the two sides.

20.  Russia has sought to find a diplomatic way to halt the NATO airstrikes, but so far its calls have been largely ignored by the alliance.