1) He was widely respected as a wise and statesmanlike governor.

2) He was commended for his statesmanlike handling of the crisis.

3) No, his only noticeable affectation was a statesmanlike calmness.

4) Mr Putin adopted a statesmanlike stance until he was asked a hostile question about the war.

5) My clients, in three-piece pin-striped suits, stood around, statesmanlike, and some had big, happy grins.

6) But Clinton settled on Gore, the statesmanlike senator from Tennessee.

7) You should deal with this matter in a statesmanlike way.

8) Used when a politician needs to appear statesmanlike and non - partisan.

9) He is trying to project a more dignified,(http:///statesmanlike.html) statesmanlike image in this election year.

10) He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.

11) He is a master of the climb-down, presented defiantly as a statesmanlike change of opinion.

12) So it was clear enough who had acted in a statesmanlike way, and who was playing small-time politics.