Sentence examples for a legation from inspiring English sources

Alongside the Americans, the Cubans and Libyans had embassies there; even the Polisario guerrillas, from Western Sahara, had a legation.

A legation under Humbert's leadership left for Constantinople in April 1054, but, despite several meetings between patriarch, emperor, and legates, no concrete results emerged.

Austria now has diplomatic relations with 19 countries, in most of which its representative is a minister who heads a legation.

Theodosius, who did not yet dare to risk a civil war, delayed reception of a legation requesting recognition of Arbogast's puppet.

Meanwhile, Gregory VIII had sent a legation to the Holy Roman emperor and participant in the Second Crusade, Frederick Barbarossa, now nearly 70 years old and approaching the end of an eventful career.

In 519 Dioscorus led a legation dispatched by Pope Hormisdas to Constantinople, where, with the Byzantine emperor Justin I, they concluded the Pope's resolution of the Acacian Schism, thereby reuniting the Eastern and Western churches.

"Just imagine the trouble it causes, at every level when you have a diplomatic legation which has a budget of tens of millions of dollars a years and it cannot have a bank account," the diplomat said.

A great event in ecclesiastical history was the arrival of a papal legation in 787, the first since the conversion.

A papal legation was sent there as late as 1492, the year Columbus attempted to find a shorter spice route but instead found the Americas.

In 1863, three years after von Eulenburg's visit in Tokyo, a Shogunal legation arrived at the Prussian court of King Wilhelm I and was greeted with a grandiose ceremony in Berlin.

Daniel Boulud, who owns high-profile restaurants in New York and Las Vegas, plans to have a restaurant in Legation Quarter, a luxury development that will open this spring in the former American Embassy near Tiananmen Square, next to the mausoleum of Mao Zedong.