Sentence examples for foreign legislators from inspiring English sources

Speaking by satellite phone early Sunday from the Challenger 1 boat, which has foreign legislators and other high-profile figures on board, a Free Gaza Movement leader, Huwaida Arraf, said: "We communicated to them clearly that we are unarmed civilians.

Earlier today, in the second day of debate before the vote, Mr. Shalom, the foreign minister, urged legislators to approve the plan by minimizing its importance, saying that this vote was not a vote to actually dismantle settlements, implying that there will be other opportunities to thwart his party leader and the plan.

Under US law, the State Department must notify of Congress of any arms sale to a foreign government, and legislators must approve the sale.

In George McGovern's case that includes Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senators and Representatives, State legislators, foreign service officers, federal judges, and many, many humanitarians.

Today his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, told legislators that Israel would not tolerate Lebanese measures to control waters from the Wazzani.

Urour Gunnarsdottir, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said Ms. Sigurardottir told legislators that Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson had requested a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of the United States.

"He's very authoritarian, and that's creating a lot of problems for Italy," said Gert Weisskirchen, foreign policy spokesman for legislators from the Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany.

Yet the true obstacles in Gaza – clear to Elaraby and Feltman – are wilfully ignored in the disingenuous comments by foreign aid agencies and legislators.

Rajiv Shah, head of USAid, the federal agency in charge of most of the country's foreign assistance, has urged legislators to abandon section 318.

But Morsi also seized this opportunity to release some detainees convicted of smuggling and similar crimes, as well as other prisoners, all Islamists, who had been convicted of terrorism charges for premeditated attacks on government officials, secular legislators, and foreign tourists during Mubarak's rule.

As to the first, it is true that legislators in foreign countries, or in our state governments, are not generally made ineligible to office: there are good reasons for it; in many countries the people have gone on without ever examining the principles of government.