Sentence examples for embassy from inspiring English sources
The word 'embassy' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the official residence or offices of an ambassador or a diplomatic mission of a particular country. For example: The US embassy in London is one of the most prestigious diplomatic missions in the world.
noun
The function or duty of an ambassador.
There was no cabinet job offered when Mrs Thatcher won office in 1979, except some vague talk of the Washington embassy, which he took (rightly) as an insult.
Iain Mansfield, the director of trade and investment at the UK embassy in Manila, who declared that a British exit from the EU would free the City from "European interference", received his prize from the former chancellor Lord Lawson.
In a nod to news stories that have emerged from the country gamers can also ride Chicago Bulls basketballs, in homage to Denis Rodman, and fly giant rabbits based on reports that the North Korean embassy requested a shipment from a breeder in Germany in 2007.
"While the government of Yemen appreciates foreign governments' concern for the safety of their citizens, the evacuation of embassy staff serves the interests of extremists and undermines exceptional co-operation between Yemen and the international alliance against terrorism.
There were signs that the Yemeni government was not pleased with the embassy closures.
Not only have they made the issue clear to everybody – not only have they created martyrs in our comrades at Fort Leavenworth, at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and at an undisclosed location in Moscow – not only have they lit this fire beyond the point where they can piss it out, but they have lost their armour.
Sturgeon denied ever saying this after the story was published near the start of the election campaign and her account was corroborated by the French embassy.
Public consciousness, as well as opposition and outrage, will grow as the world's people, not just a handful of diplomats, can read the cables of "the embassy where all information about everything sooner or later arrives".
In 2008, the German magazine Spiegel reported that the Berlin was paying Nigerian embassy officials €500 per person to issue travel documents for people they wanted to remove.
I was struck by the similarity between my grandfather's embassy-influenced observations from Mexico 85 years ago and those in the secret state department cables about Haiti, spanning April 2003 to February 2010, that Haïti Liberté has begun to analyse, thanks to WikiLeaks.
Relatives who have lost loved ones at the hands of UK police will stage a demonstration outside the US embassy in London in solidarity with the family and supporters of US teenager Michael Brown, shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
