(n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
(n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(2) The US secretary of state, John Kerry , said if Yemen’s opposing sides accepted and moved forward on a ceasefire then the UN special envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, would work through the details and announce when and how it would take effect.
(3) The spokeperson said of Blair's role as the Middle East envoy: "The truth, and anybody who knows anything about the situation in respect of Palestine knows this, is that transformational change is impossible unless it goes hand in hand with a political process.
(4) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
(5) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
(6) "This is a process which we respect as an Afghan-led process, Afghan-managed process and we would not want to take steps which would be seen as interfering or substituting the UN for Afghan leadership," deputy UN envoy Nicholas Haysom told journalists on Saturday.
(7) The announcement coincides with a visit to Asia by the chief US envoy for the North, Stephen Bosworth, to discuss ways to bring Pyongyang back to denuclearisation talks.
(8) "There's funding that was agreed to as part of the Copenhagen accord, and as a general matter, the US is going to use its funds to go to countries that have indicated an interest to be part of the accord," the state department envoy, Todd Stern, told the Washington Post.
(9) • While in Geneva Kerry is due to meet the international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, according to the US state department.
(10) Famine is stalking Somalia after a year of poor rains and heavy fighting, with more than a million lives at risk and little sense of urgency from the international community, the top UN envoy to the country warned.
(11) Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s special envoy for climate change, said the bank’s pledge coupled with commitments from Germany, France and the UK to double their climate finance and similar pledges from multilateral development banks in Asia, Europe and Africa meant the total pledges were “well on the way to $100bn”.
(12) Since the summer, scarcely a week has gone by without an envoy from one party or other, or from Ukraine itself, visiting London and other capitals to argue their case.
(13) It reminds me of the events in 2003 when US envoys to the security council were demonstrating what they said were chemical weapons found in Iraq ,” he told reporters.
(14) Nickolay Mladenov, the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process, said a very dangerous precedent had been set and “a very thick line” crossed.
(15) UN Libya envoy Martin Kobler was quick to congratulate the Presidential Council on nominating a new cabinet.
(16) Charles Pritchard, a special envoy for negotiations with North Korea in the Bush administration and a special assistant to Bill Clinton on national security, said Obama's policy of engagement has now failed.
(17) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
(18) Although he was once a UK trade envoy, jetting off around the globe to promote British business, he hasn’t held that position since 2011.
(19) Unlike more discreet foreign envoys in London, the ambassador is not afraid to state his views publicly and forcefully.
(20) The envoys were expected to discuss Turkey's concerns but would not decide on anything specific, said the official who could not be named.
Legate
Definition:
(n.) An ambassador or envoy.
(n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.
(n.) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.
(n.) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and positive serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were treated by hepatic artery legation and postoperative chemotherapy.
(2) (1) Bile duct legation protects against aspirin-induced gastric mucosal lesions by inhibiting gastric HCl secretion.
(3) Evidence is presented suggesting that recurrent saphenofemoral incompetence may occur after an efficiently performed high legation of the great saphenous vein flush with the femoral vein.
(4) We have legats [legal attaches] there from the FBI and State Department, very small to the extent that we are asked.
(5) Although she had her first ballet lessons in Ndola, her training was essentially in Britain, first with Flora Fairbairn, then with the great pedagogue Nicholas Legat and, after his death in 1937, with his widow Nadine Nicolayeva.
(6) Those on the statue are taken from the typed version he sent to the American legation in Brussels, which passed them on to London.
(7) However, if the wire is too firmly legated to the teeth with a flexure of more than 2.0 mm for the former, and more than 0.5 mm for the latter, there is the danger of excessively strengthening the orthodontic force.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) The file shows Roger Hollis, head of MI5, arguing in 1944: “You may think the case against Costello himself is a thin one, and I think I should add that we have information from entirely reliable but very secret sources that certain of the Communist party leaders were aware of Costello’s departure from this country in July last.” Costello continued his career in the New Zealand diplomatic service and in 1950 was promoted to be first secretary at the Paris legation.
(10) Studies were carried out to investigate this question in normal dogs, sham-operated animals, and dogs with acute and chronic legation of CBD.
(11) She was travelling to meet her mother and stepfather in Damascus, where he had been posted as minister at the British Legation.
(12) The purpose of the present study was to determine whether bile duct legation of pylorus ligation in the rat inhibits asprin-induced gastric lesions, and, if so, what the protective mechanisms are.
(13) Immediately after legation of coronary arteries (CA) and during the next 2 days mesaton was introduced in a single dose into the marginal auricular vein of 12 rabbits with EMI.
(14) He joined the army and served as an intelligence officer and translator for the New Zealand forces in north Africa and Italy before being appointed by the New Zealand government in 1944 as second secretary to their legation in Moscow.