Sentence examples for called your excellency from inspiring English sources

So will he insist on being called "your excellency"?

He is not likely to foster the cult of personality that Samaranch did, and he will surely insist on not being called "Your Excellency".

So the rules soon changed to first names all round, though ambassadors, at least in public, may be called "Your Excellency" by other diplomats and "Sir" or, particularly if female, "Ambassador" by their own staff.This shift, the biggest in the English politeness code since "thee" and "thou" fell into disuse, has accelerated.

Francis explained that Peter was not called "Your Excellency" by the Apostles or by the other followers of Jesus, and that Stefano should enjoy the same freedom in addressing Peter's successor.

You're just giddy he called you "Your Excellency" five times in a four paragraph letter which doesn't actually say anything of substance.

Mr Odinga called Mr Kibaki "your excellency".

You can even, under 18th-century protocol, call him Your Excellency, but it does not appear anyone ever has.

But now he "calls Karzai 'Your Excellency' 30 times a day", says one sarcastic Afghan political analyst.An optimist would say that Mr Karzai is right to focus on the long term.

"And the judge, in my opinion, was too lenient, allowing Saddam to interrupt, and calling him 'Your Excellency' and 'Your Honor.' " As brazen as Mr. Hussein, according to Mr. Rubaie, was Ali Hassan al-Majid, 58, known to Iraqis as "Chemical Ali" for his role in directing a poison-gas attack on Halabja, a town in Iraqi Kurdistan, in March 1988.

He went on: "Everyone is getting used to calling me 'Your Excellency,' and I'm getting used to it.

Writer Bill Bryson, writing in his delightful book Made in America, reports that he preferred his men call him "Your Excellency".