(1) Betfair says Dixon is one of a new set of "ambassadors" including rugby's Will Greenwood, racing's Paul Nicholls and cricket's Michael Vaughan.
(2) This is such an emotional thing in positive terms about the EU.” Marek Prawda, Poland’s former ambassador to the EU and now head of the European commission in Warsaw, says: “For us, being an EU member is the inverse of what was said in your referendum campaign about ‘taking back control’.
(3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(4) Going forward, I am delighted to take on the roles of both director and ambassador for the club.
(5) He boasts that his time as America's ambassador to China shows more experience in vital foreign policy than any other candidate.
(6) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(7) • In an emergency UN security council meeting, the US ambassador accused Russia of "looking for a pretext to invade" Ukraine.
(8) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(9) On Friday, the US ambassador to Libya, Deborah Jones, appealed for fighting near the embassy to stop.
(10) René Nyberg, a former ambassador to Russia, said Finland and the west were facing a new situation and it was uncertain where it might lead.
(11) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(12) "King Hamad understands that Bahrain cannot prosper if he rules by repression," the US ambassador reported in December 2009 .
(13) Just weeks ago the US ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, was still not getting why protesters were planning those mass demonstrations .
(14) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
(15) Zarif, a former ambassador to the United Nations, is a US-educated veteran Iranian diplomat who has previously led secret Tehran-Washington negotiations and is seen as best positioned to normalise bilateral relations between the two countries.
(16) Trump security adviser Flynn resigns after leaks suggest he tried to cover up Russia talks Read more Michael Flynn resigned as national security adviser because of his contacts with the Russian ambassador to Washington and his subsequent attempts to cover up the true nature of those contacts.
(17) The ambassador, Paul Grigson, will leave Jakarta this week in a form of protest Australia did not adopt after several previous cases of citizens facing the death penalty.
(18) Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN and a former frontrunner to replace Clinton as state secretary, saw her political ambitions cut short after she suggested that the attack could have originated from a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim US-made film.
(19) But British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons famously got it wrong, reporting that the shah's position was secure as late as 1978.
(20) Peter Ford Ambassador to Syria 2003-06 • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
Ambassadorial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ambassador.
Example Sentences:
(1) McAllister is, however, staying at Liverpool in an ambassadorial capacity.
(2) Our goalkeeper’s ambassadorial role will have a wide-ranging remit that will include greater involvement in our global coaching programme and engaging with our 30 supporters clubs from across North America as we continue to increase our global presence and bring our international fanbase closer to the club.
(3) Just before Christmas, Arsenal and England footballer Alex Scott was invited, as part of her ambassadorial role with the SCWC, to visit the Brazilian girls' team in Rio.
(4) Many Liverpool fans would also love to see the former No10 given a leading role there yet that too is not the case, with Barnes taking on nothing more than ambassadorial duties with the club he continues to support and live near 16 years after his departure from Anfield.
(5) From the outside the 37-year-old's arrival appeared a luxury aimed at raising the club's profile, potentially with an ambassadorial brief with Qatar 2022, rather than a free transfer signing who might influence a three-pronged pursuit of silverware.
(6) Everywhere there was a US ambassadorial post, a diplomatic scandal would be uncovered by the cables, Manning said.
(7) Gerrard is to take up an ambassadorial role with the Football Association.
(8) His perspective, given over a herring breakfast in the ambassadorial residency's cavernous reception room, is interesting because it is coloured with the bemusement that someone steeped in Finland's more egalitarian principles feels about Britain's extremes of wealth.
(9) But as much as I possibly can I try to hang on to a little bit of normality.” While the majority of the Welsh public have now warmed to Coleman, he knows from the ambassadorial work that comes with the job that he is fighting a losing battle with some die-hard Cardiff fans.
(10) Taking on an ambassadorial role can also be a good outcome for both the founder and the charity.
(11) Repellent though he found many aspects of US foreign policy – and repellent as the establishment found him when in 1967 it banned him from the ring for three years for refusing the draft – the nation embraced Ali as time passed, realising his unique ambassadorial value.
(12) The Scot has accepted an ambassadorial position, which will allow the club to benefit from his strong connection and affinity with the supporters.
(13) But he was soon asked to take over as manager as Bobby Robson was shuffled into an ambassadorial role because of poor league form.
(14) Steve Bell on Trump's ambassadorial proposal – cartoon Read more “They are fully aware of the bullets Nigel has been taking,” Wigmore said.
(15) Friedel, who made one league appearance last season, will help promote the club in America in an ambassadorial role but if called on next season he could break the record set in May 1995 by Manchester City’s John Burridge, who was 43 years and 162 days old when he played against Queens Park Rangers.
(16) Whoever our colleagues on the other side of the aisle choose as their standard bearer, we look forward to a vigorous debate about the direction of our state.” Brownback is term-limited, and there has been speculation that he will resign by the fall to take an ambassadorial position in the Trump administration, elevating Lt Gov Jeff Colyer to governor.
(17) Stephen Greene, the chair of the NCS’s governing body, pointed out that Cameron would perform an ambassadorial role for the charity, but not be involved in its governance.
(18) The new positions are being seen as ambassadorial roles for a party whose membership decides policy at conference.
(19) Hinton was asked to reprise the ambassadorial role he carried out at Wapping, when he acted as a conduit between Murdoch and the political elite.
(20) Over tea in the drawing room, the book's author – historian and biographer Dr Anthony Seldon – lavishes praise on the building before a gathering of mostly American guests, arguing that it is "simply the greatest ambassadorial residence of any country, in any capital city".