Sentence examples for consul from inspiring English sources

The excuse is that the government closed the Miami consulate after the United States expelled the consul last year.

The CNE justified the policy by arguing that the government closed the consulate in Miami after the United States expelled the consul in January.Individually, none of these decisions is likely to tip the balance in the president's favour in October.

"This case has raised attention around the world, with particular concern around Mr Hill's intellectual disability," said Annabelle Malins, the British consul general.

The document was a note taken by a Scotland Office civil servant recording a conversation with the French consul general in which the envoy recounted the contents of a private discussion between Sturgeon and the French ambassador.

The Cabinet Office investigation concluded that the civil servant who recorded his conversation with the French consul general was reliable and had acted in good faith.

After going off the see the vice consul that morning all those years ago, my wife returned in the afternoon with some cash he'd loaned her from the Distressed Seamen's Fund.

This fearsomely brutal group raided the building on June 10th, taking all 49 of the consulate's Turkish staff hostage, including the consul-general, along with two toddlers.

As an American citizen, I had to apply for leave to remain in the UK from outside the country, so our first stop was the office of the British vice-consul in Naples.

He was a mail-service pilot living out the adventures that inspired his 1931 novel, Night Flight, and she was there to collect the widow's pension for her second husband, Enrique Gomez Carrillo, a Guatemalan writer and Argentina's consul-general in Paris.

So British recognition of the state of Palestine, joining 134 of the 193 member states of the UN, in an initiative advocated by Vincent Fean (until recently our consul-general in Jerusalem) would be a very welcome move, which ought to influence US policy in this regard, a sine qua non for the international pressure needed to bear down on Israel.

Bosnia won the deal only after its intransigent leaders wore down their EU partners into accepting a watered-down version of reform for Bosnia's police.Miroslav Lajcak, the international pro-consul in Bosnia, argues that most of its 3.8m people now put jobs and prosperity above the old national questions.