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Seventy years later, Zdenka sits beside the window of a mansion block flat overlooking Hyde Park in London; by an extraordinary twist, a plaque on the building identifies it as the location where a plot was hatched by the exiled Czech underground to assassinate the Third Reich's emissary to Prague, Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
Blair becomes one of Wendi's first official social conquests, in her developing role both as Murdoch social emissary and social power player.
The most spectacular Tory gain of all was Anglesey, formerly held by Mr Callaghan 's Rhodesian emissary , Mr Cledwyn Hughes, which Labour lost on a swing of 12 per cent.
After 1989 the generals let him carry goods to the Thai border unimpeded if he acted as an emissary to the Shan, Wa and Kokang rebel armies.
No emperor has visited the shrine personally since 1975, but every year, during the two principal rites at the shrine in the spring and the autumn, an emissary from the emperor plays the central role.
And Mrs Gaymard is not GE's only emissary in its bid to win approval to buy Alstom.Yet she may, with her insider's knowledge of how to play the game, have earned GE a slightly more sympathetic hearing in the corridors of power.
The White House is poised to say that Marc Grossman, a career diplomat with a solid background in Europe but limited experience of South Asia, will fill the shoes of Richard Holbrooke, its former "Af-Pak" emissary.
Many people, Jews or Gentiles, who know little or nothing about Judaism have bumped into a Chabad emissary somewhere.
And there is ice not only at the south pole, as a previous emissary , Clementine, tentatively suggested, but twice as much of it at the north pole.Scientists pointed out in 1961 that, because sunlight near the lunar poles comes in at a shallow angle, the floors of the deeper craters there might never catch a sunbeam.
The non-European euro Aleksander Kwasniewski, a polished Pole Too late, perhaps The French left begins to falter Dully-go-round ReprintsThroughout 1998, Richard Holbrooke, President Bill Clinton's emissary , tried and failed to revive talks between the two parts of the fractured island.
Seeking more concrete reward, Mr Blagojevich spoke with an emissary for "Candidate 5", Jesse Jackson junior, about a deal for his seat.
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The word "emissary " primarily functions as a count noun . It is typically used to identify a person who carries out a mission on behalf of a group or leader. According to Ludwig, it is consistently used in formal contexts to denote agency and representation, often appearing as the subject or object in complex sentence structures.
Expression frequency: Very common
