Sentence examples for diplomatic agents from inspiring English sources

Zheng He was the best known of the Yongle emperor's diplomatic agents.

Thus, diplomatic agents and their families are inviolable, not subject to arrest or worse, even in wartime.

The mission and residential premises of diplomatic agents are immune not only from process by creditors but also from being entered by the police and other law enforcement officers.

A handful of precedents directly addressed the narrower question at hand: whether Congress can use its spending power to restrict which officials the president may designate as his diplomatic agents.

When another reporter asked whether Mr. Mancini's immunity covered "deception and fraud and contempt of court," Mr. Akbaruddin cited the basis of the Supreme Court order, "which is that if diplomatic agents willingly submit to the jurisdiction of the court, then that jurisdiction applies".

A provision of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations grants certain diplomatic agents an extension of diplomatic immunity for a period of time after one's official duties have ended, but Justice McKeon, in a written decision released on Tuesday, ruled that the extension did not apply to Mr. Strauss-Kahn.

According to the Vienna Convention, this immunity extends both to the family of the diplomatic agent and to his staff.

When the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 90 began, Fersen was sent back to Paris as a diplomatic agent.

In 1845 he moved to Natal, where he first served as a diplomatic agent (1845 53) and later as secretary for native affairs (1853 75).

There appears to be general agreement that a diplomatic agent, during the term of his office, is totally exempt from both criminal and civil jurisdiction in the state where he is accredited.

The chief diplomatic agent for the Natal government, Theophilus Shepstone, introduced (from 1849) a policy aimed at reserving large tracts of land for the native Bantu peoples, who by then greatly outnumbered whites in the colony.