Sentence examples for last envoy from inspiring English sources

The quartet's last envoy, James Wolfensohn, an American former head of the World Bank, was appointed in the summer of 2005 specifically to co-ordinate Israel's imminent withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and to focus on economic ways to help the Palestinians after the Israeli exit.

In this way he won their favour to such an extent that they did not even deny their treachery, but drove away the last envoys when they returned.

His last novel, Envoy Extraordinary, was published just two months ago and there were others on the stocks.

Winning arguments about access got harder after the resignation of the UN's last Syria envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi.

As her family fled the Communists in 1949, Mao Zedung praised her uncle in a famous anti-imperialist speech titled "Farewell, Leighton Stuart," referring to the last US envoy.

Mr. Patten, expected to be Britain's last governing envoy in Hong Kong before it reverts to China on July 1 , 1997 is trying to orchestrate a dignified exit for the British.

He has met very few foreign officials since he became leader in 2011, and the last time envoys from the South visited Pyongyang was in 2007.

At the United Nations, however, situations are often fluid until the last minute, as envoys work the telephones to their capitals, and governments confer over the heads of their diplomats.

His next and final position, as envoy to Taiwan, lasted an unusual eight years, from 1966 to 1974.

LAST year, Britain's envoy to Kenya complained that corrupt ministers were "eating like gluttons" and "vomiting on the shoes" of foreign donors.

Although Japan and North Korea maintain a low level of trade, it has been more than a year since the last meeting of their envoys.