Sentence examples for acting as envoy from inspiring English sources

To be sure, he has ruffled feathers on his own side – not least when acting as envoy of a sitting president.

He is not acting as an envoy for the United Nations, however.

Hannes Gissurarson was initially bemused when a British diplomat, acting as an envoy of the court, turned up at his door in Reykjavik to serve him with a writ.

The two leaders met in a special buffer zone at the invitation of Alexander Downer, a former Australian foreign minister who is acting as special envoy to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.

In 1770, when the Massachusetts House of Representatives sent instructions to Franklin, acting as its envoy in Great Britain, he was told to advance the claim that taxes levied by Parliament "were designed to exclude us from the least Share in that Clause of Magna Charta, which has for many Centuries been the noblest Bulwark of the English Liberties, and which cannot be too often repeated.

"The most important message I've brought is that, on your road to national rejuvenation, China stands by your side," said Wang, who was acting as an envoy on behalf of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Muller Hendrik Muller Henk Muller (informal use) Hendrik Muller van Rijckevorsel (1880s 1900s; added surname of his mother) Hendrik de Warssel van Cingelshouck (since 1911; pen-name) Hendrik Muller van Werendycke (since c. 1919 while acting as Dutch envoy) Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude (geography, ethnography), University of Giessen, Germany, 1894.

But Suskind comes close to saying that Habbush was not purposefully acting as Saddam's envoy.

"Some folk thought it was crass of Tony to put on a celebration while acting as Middle East peace envoy.

In 1989, Mr. Brahimi helped to broker an end to a decade-long civil war in Lebanon, acting as a special envoy for the Arab League.

The State Department has said that Mr. Carter's trip is a private journey and that he is not acting as an American envoy.