Sentence examples for cordial visit from inspiring English sources

What Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, makes of this was unclear even after Mr Letta paid her a cordial visit on April 30th.

Certainly, the editorial cleared the way for a cordial visit and what one insider described as the most substantive recent conversations held between a pope and a US president.

Luckily, these thoughts were not yet public when, several days after the state dinner, Prince Napoleon and his suite took their leave of Washington — and promptly turned up across Confederate lines in Virginia, paying an equally cordial visit to the headquarters of the rebel Gen. G.T. Beauregard.

"She paid her respects to the president in the Oval Office — a cordial visit during which she told the president she was on board with his agenda and would be honored to serve him, according to several people with knowledge of the meeting," wrote Dawsey and other Post reporters last April.

Then-House Minority Leader John Boehner was the most recent U.S. lawmaker to visit Qaddafi at his tent in the desert for a cordial visit, during which the Libyan leader gifted Boehner with a pair of sunglasses.

Yet the emir keeps on good terms with Iran, exchanging cordial visits with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Despite the clashing memories of the Holocaust, the visit was cordial, and after a year of tensions, Benedict and Jewish leaders affirmed a commitment to strengthening ties.

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Karu Jayasuriya, the deputy leader of the United National Party and one of the new cabinet ministers, said the visit was cordial and warm.

Mr. Lantos characterized the visit as "cordial" and noted that he and Mr. Leach met at length with several top North Korean officials, including the country's top nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye Gwan; the foreign minister, Paek Nam Sun; and Gen. Li Chan Bok of the North Korean Army.

On a third visit, an exceptionally cordial hostess apologized for the backlog in reservations and offered us a glass of wine - which we drank standing off in one corner of the room.