Sentence examples for a diplomatic assignment from inspiring English sources

He died while on a diplomatic assignment to present a petition to Napoleon for the incorporation of Galicia in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.

Later Adams left Abigail behind to serve the United States in France; Jefferson accepted a diplomatic assignment only after his wife had died.

Soon, however, he was with the CIA in IT security, a job that a couple of years later led to a foreign posting under the cloak of a diplomatic assignment.

In 1603 Gonzaga sent him on his first diplomatic assignment to Spain to present a shipment of paintings to King Philip III.

The diplomatic assignment would vault Ms. Kennedy, a lawyer and the author of 10 books, into the kind of public life that her family has embraced for several generations, including in the diplomatic corps.

Around that time, officials became aware that Maclean had suffered "a sort of nervous breakdown in Cairo," while on diplomatic assignment.

Mr. Montes Brito, a portly 41-year-old industrial engineer on his first diplomatic assignment, is among the performers.

His last diplomatic assignment was as ambassador at Constantinople (1858 65).

He was on diplomatic assignment to the U.S. with his bride when the Communist Party took over China.

It is described as the most challenging diplomatic assignment in the world, and the toughest to fill.

Mr. Popper's last diplomatic assignment was as special representative of the secretary of state to carry out the 1977 treaty to give the country of Panama control of the canal bisecting it.