#1648742 IADES - 2021 - Diplomata (Terceiro Secretário)

Text 6 to answer question.

For centuries, the fact that diplomats represented venerable principals – from powerful monarchs to established states – guaranteed their protected and privileged status. Whereas long-standing rules of diplomatic immunity and privileges by and large continue to be upheld in interstate relations, popular perceptions of diplomats have changed in recent decades. To the extent that diplomats are perceived as symbols of disliked countries, religions or “-isms”, the quality of standing for others has been transformed from a rationale for diplomatic immunity to a rationale for political violence. No longer being inviolable symbols, diplomatic representatives have increasingly become highly vulnerable symbols.

Stanzel, V. New Realities in Foreign Affairs: Diplomacy

in the 21st Century. SWP Research Paper 2018, RP 11, November 2018,with adaptations.

Considering the vocabulary of the text, mark the following item a right (C) or wrong (E).

the expression “by and large” could be replaced with partially without changing the meaning of the sentence.