Sentence examples for diplomatic authority from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, Genêt soon exceeded his diplomatic authority.

His grandfather, at 80, was an internationally known diplomatic authority; his father was the second-ranking cabinet officer in the United States.

Earlier this year, American officials considered a plan to allow significant numbers of troops to stay in Iraq under diplomatic authority, which was essentially an end run around the need for a new security agreement and parliamentary debate about immunity.

He surrendered America's diplomatic authority to the machinations of Clemenceau and Lloyd George, who proceeded to impose the economically crippling terms on the Central Powers that helped shape the future political landscapes of Germany and Austria.

But as the administration tries to press Iran even harder to abandon its nuclear program — officials this week announced several new sanctions measures — some diplomats and foreign affairs experts worry that by allowing the sale of even small-ticket items with no military application, the United States muddies its moral and diplomatic authority.

has never had much enthusiasm for the General's personality or his views on Asiatic problems, but has insisted that never since his July flight from Formosa has he made any attempt to ursurp diplomatic authority... View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix.

In reply to a protest made by American diplomatic authorities a White representative at Saint-Jean-de-Luz said they were not being held in custody, but only were they being detained "under surveillance".

Canada's diplomatic authorities also urged Canadians in Jalisco to remain indoors throughout the attacks.

Reached through email, he mentions trying to contact Canadian diplomatic authorities many times at the country's Kabul and Islamabad embassies only to be stopped at the gates every time.

And there, by a combination of diplomatic skill, authority and breadth of culture, he helped to persuade his naturally cagy masters at Baarn, in the Netherlands, to underwrite a range of projects of the kind they would hardly have dreamed of.

But the U.S. has already squandered its diplomatic moral authority in the wake of the invasion of Iraq and the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.