Examples of gunboat diplomacy in a Sentence
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Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
In the early 2000s, the Danes twice dispatched frigates with soldiers to the island, in what Robert Huebert, a political scientist at the University of Calgary, called an example of gunboat diplomacy.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
Through gunboat diplomacy, France forced Haiti to agree to an enormous indemnity in exchange for recognition.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
On May 5, the day before the elections, Johnson staged an amateur reenactors’ version of nineteenth-century gunboat diplomacy.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
The result is that Mr. Erdoğan is the latest exemplar of the effectiveness of gunboat diplomacy, even as traditional military players withdraw from the field.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2020
In the 18th century, imperial Britain was able to practice gunboat diplomacy across Africa and the Indian subcontinent, taking direct administrative control of vast swaths of the world.
—Parag Khanna, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2019
Whether this was a way of proving his commitment or a less-than-subtle suggestion of gunboat diplomacy, the ploy worked.
—Yoni Wilkenfeld, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2019
The only alternative would be a world where all states are truly on an equal footing, and that went out the window with gunboat diplomacy, with systematic looting of the developing world through debt, with colonization, with the slave trade itself.
—Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
In the early 2000s, the Danes twice dispatched frigates with soldiers to the island, in what Robert Huebert, a political scientist at the University of Calgary, called an example of gunboat diplomacy.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
Through gunboat diplomacy, France forced Haiti to agree to an enormous indemnity in exchange for recognition.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
On May 5, the day before the elections, Johnson staged an amateur reenactors’ version of nineteenth-century gunboat diplomacy.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
The result is that Mr. Erdoğan is the latest exemplar of the effectiveness of gunboat diplomacy, even as traditional military players withdraw from the field.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2020
In the 18th century, imperial Britain was able to practice gunboat diplomacy across Africa and the Indian subcontinent, taking direct administrative control of vast swaths of the world.
—Parag Khanna, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2019
Whether this was a way of proving his commitment or a less-than-subtle suggestion of gunboat diplomacy, the ploy worked.
—Yoni Wilkenfeld, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2019
The only alternative would be a world where all states are truly on an equal footing, and that went out the window with gunboat diplomacy, with systematic looting of the developing world through debt, with colonization, with the slave trade itself.
—Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
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First Known Use
1927, in the meaning defined above
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