(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
Consular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are in contact with the local authorities and are providing consular assistance to the British national."
(2) "We are providing consular support to his family at this tragic time, and we ask that the media respect the privacy of those grieving."
(3) High-end estate agents are already being sounded out to sell the 10,000 square foot consular residence in London's upscale Holland Park – which is currently being renovated.
(4) He continued: “The Foreign Office is urgently deploying additional consular response teams from London and Delhi to reinforce our embassy staff and looking at what else we can do.” The prime minister, David Cameron , announced on Twitter that UK medics and search and rescue teams would be flying out to Nepal tonight.
(5) An MoD spokesman said: “As the FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) has made clear, the UK Government will provide assisted departure for a number of UK nationals before suspending consular operations on Monday.
(6) I don’t think the [UK] government has been protecting us; they have provided consular assistance and they have expressed concerns, and the ambassador has been to visit Gabriella to check she is OK, but in terms of criticising her treatment and saying it’s abuse, they’ve never said that this does not meet the minimum legal standards, that it’s not a fair trial.
(7) And while court proceedings on Friday were ostensibly open to the public, authorities only allowed family members and consular officials inside the courthouse.
(8) The Syrian ambassador left Washington over a year ago, leaving behind a slimmed-down staff to continue some consular operations, such as provision of visas.
(9) DFAT is also providing consular assistance to an injured Australian man accompanying the woman.
(10) Concerns that the Eritrean embassy in London is using coercion or illicit means to collect the tax – such as refusing diaspora members basic consular services if they fail to pay it – have led the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to raise the matter with the Eritrean authorities on at least four occasions over the past four years.
(11) Carlton Benson, a consular officer at the US embassy in Yemen , described Mobley’s conditions delicately in an email sent to his family.
(12) You will all have a TV in your home and more consular services, all over Ukraine, but especially in Sevastopol.” The crowd cheered and clapped, Harriet reports, chanting “Russia, Russia, Russia.” Updated at 3.30pm GMT 2.57pm GMT A Reuters journalist has witnessed a tense stand off between at least 20 men wearing the uniform of Russia’s Black Sea fleet and carrying automatic rifles and Ukrainian border guards near Sevastopol.
(13) At no stage during his detention did the Australian government receive any request from the individual or his family to extended consular support.
(14) She says Dfat is working through its embassy in Seoul and is in contact with Swedish authorities, who handle Australia’s consular interests in North Korea, to confirm Short’s well-being.
(15) His lawyers argue that the 46-year-old did not receive a fair trial because he was denied prompt consular assistance, in violation of the Vienna Convention.
(16) The Libyan intelligence officers repeatedly telephoned him, claiming to be consular officials, and he eventually agreed to meet them at the Landmark hotel in Marylebone, London, on 2 September 2006.
(17) When a UK Foreign Office consular official visited CF a month after his detention, he recorded that marks, apparently from handcuffs, were visible on CF's wrists.
(18) The International Court of Justice ruled in 2004, in what is often called the Avena decision, that about 50 Mexicans on death row in the US, including Tamayo, had not been properly informed of their consular rights.
(19) A spokesman said: "Given the unstable and unpredictable situation in Mali and the continuing lack of constitutional rule, the UK has decided to temporarily withdraw its staff from its embassy in Bamako and temporarily suspend all in-country services immediately, including consular assistance.
(20) Consular officials and Minister Dion have met with Dr Hoodfar’s family, and remain in close contact with them,” a spokesperson said.