(n.) One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.
(n.) A senator; a counselor.
(n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.
(n.) An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
(2) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(3) Later this week, Mr Bush will visit Pakistan, where a bomb killed a diplomat at the US consulate in Karachi today.
(4) Ukraine will do everything it can to free these unjustly accused people,” said Vitaly Moskalenko, Ukraine’s consul general in Rostov-on-Don, who was present at the Sentsov hearing.
(5) In recent days, protests in Istanbul against Russian involvement in Syria and Aleppo, including a demonstration in front of the Russian consulate on the city’s famed İstiklal Avenue, have occurred on a regular basis.
(6) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
(7) Conflicting evidence It took four weeks for the FBI to travel to the Benghazi consulate site.
(8) Attaullah Khyogani, the spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, said another seven people were injured in the attack, which began when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the consulate and ended with a gun battle between Afghan security forces and the militants.
(9) In 2004, the United Nations' International Court of Justice ruled that the US had breached its obligations under the Vienna Convention by failing to inform Mexican consulates immediately after the arrests of around 50 Mexican nationals, including Tamayo.
(10) A US official also said that a Libyan militia, formed during the revolution, came to the defence of the consulate.
(11) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
(12) The arrest of Devyani Khobragade, the Indian deputy consul general in the US, and her subsequent strip-search has led to a fierce row , threatening to further complicate already testy relations between the two nations.
(13) In cities with high demand for Turkish visas, such as Beirut, waiting periods for appointments at the Turkish consulate can last as long as nine months.
(14) Rubinstein said the decision to close the embassy, as well as honorary consulates in Troy, Michigan, and Houston, Texas, was “in consideration of the atrocities the Assad regime has committed against the Syrian people”.
(15) A retired man became irate as he detailed why he couldn’t stand her: her handling of the attack against the US consulate in Benghazi , her email scandal , her cosy ties to Wall Street.
(16) Emails between the deputy Consul in Yemen and Washington State Department staff at the time reveal the US authorities’ real attitude to Sharif.
(17) "In 2010, Warrap was hit harder than most by internal communal violence," Barrie Walkley, the US Consul-General in Southern Sudan, told IRIN at the inauguration.
(18) Rice does say there was a "spontaneous protest" outside the Benghazi consulate but says that after that, "extremist elements" later arrived with heavy weaponry, which led to the violence that followed.
(19) Several waved placards and the Chinese flag and shouted "Defend the Diaoyu Islands" outside the Japanese consulate general in southern Guangzhou, Xinhua said.
(20) The British Foreign Office has not reached firm decisions on its response, but it is understood to be considering the fullest range of options, including the recall of its ambassador Matthew Gould and consul-general Vincent Fean for further discussions.
Counsel
Definition:
(n.) Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.
(n.) Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.
(n.) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
(n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.
(v. t.) To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.
(v. t.) To advise or recommend, as an act or course.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) At the end of the year, however, Hugh Davies QC, deputy counsel to the inquiry, also resigned.
(3) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
(4) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(5) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(6) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
(7) The authors have studied the different situations that prompt a request for genetic counseling if different members of the same family suffer from cancer.
(8) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
(9) A daily clinic was organized for abortion counseling.
(10) The conclusion of this section is that the law fails to address women's needs for adequate and accurate abortion counseling.
(11) One group received additional health education and counseling independent of clinic staff, and the other group only received health education and counseling from clinic staff.
(12) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
(13) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(14) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
(15) Early ultrasound diagnosis enabled appropriate genetic counselling to be given; neonatal complications, such as hypoglycaemic episodes, were prevented.
(16) Part II reviews Supreme Court cases and state law regarding abortion counseling, critizing both the Court's narrow view of counseling and the states' failure to use the legislative process to create laws which benefit maternal health.
(17) The variable phenotypic effects of ring G chromosomes, as well as several aspects of genetic counseling are discussed.
(18) This paper describes the counseling program implemented by a social worker and a family planning counselor for female clinic patients requesting sterilization.
(19) Women doctors gave comparatively more counseling than men.
(20) Important considerations for the obstetrician concerning hereditary antithrombin III deficiency are discussed, including: 1) the need to therapeutically anticoagulate these patients postpartum, 2) the need to consider prophylactic anticoagulation throughout pregnancy especially in patients with a history of thrombosis, 3) the practical aspects of assaying antithrombin III in plasma rather than serum, 4) the normally low antithrombin III levels in normal newborns, and 5) the need to provide prepregnancy counseling, including information about the autosomal dominant inheritance of hereditary antithrombin III deficiency.