Sentence examples for the despatch of from inspiring English sources

When Labour arrived in 1997, there was a momentary pleasure at the despatch of the hated Tories but then the attacks began again.

Together with the export of assets abroad, and the despatch of sons and daughters to foreign schools and universities, it suggests that the party brass lacks confidence in the future.

Once these suspects have been hauled before the UN-supervised courts in Kosovo, an even bolder move may follow: the despatch of some senior Kosovo Albanians to face war-crimes charges in The Hague.

"Formal recognition may seem a hollow act," the majority noted, "if it is not accompanied by the despatch of an ambassador, the easing of trade restrictions, and the conclusion of treaties".

The despatch of any international observers risks being exploited by Moscow to lay a false veneer of credibility over a sham.The strangest thing about the Kremlin's heavy-handed behaviour is that it is to a great extent unnecessary.

The unions are no longer to be responsible for the despatch of the ballot papers and will be debarred from sending literature backing one candidate with the ballot paper.

They seized his laptop, which contained commercial records and photographs recording the death of hundreds of animals and the despatch to Asia of millions of dollars worth of ivory, lion bone, and rhino horn.

Party struggles ran high in the legislative council, and the lieutenant-governor's position was one of great delicacy, while the difficulty of his situation was vastly augmented through the practice of the officials in Downing Street of encouraging private communications on public measures from subordinate officers of the colony, and weighing them with the despatches of the lieutenant-governor.

On graduation he rejoined the 32nd Battalion in March as its second-in-command, and was Mentioned in the Despatches of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig on 7 April.

Promoted to lieutenant on 24 February 1917, Towner's service with his transport section earned him praise for his "devotion to duty and consistent good work", and on 9 April he was Mentioned in the Despatches of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig.

For every jobbing top-order biff merchant we still get Chris Gayle's slow-motion yawn over long-on, the balletic violence of Suresh Raina, the brutal despatch of the Shane Watson swivel pull, even the absurdly languid Umar Gul flip-six, the ball despatched with all the urbane, short-armed dexterity of a man flipping up his umbrella in a thunderstorm.