Example sentences of "[unc] ambassador to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abduction was reportedly in retaliation for the killing of Sikh militants who , on Aug. 20 , had attacked India 's ambassador to Romania , Julius Ribeiro , in Bucharest . |
| 2 | He was replaced by Ilija Djukic , hitherto Yugoslavia 's ambassador to China . |
| 3 | ‘ If measures or sanctions to put pressure on are taken , we will take counter-measures , ’ said Pyongyang 's ambassador to China , Chu Chang Ju . |
| 4 | Today though Her Majesty 's ambassador to Moscow visited Maxat the horse and announced that a home has been found for him at last in the Queen 's household Cavalry . |
| 5 | At the beginning of April , Sheikh Saud Nasir al-Sabah , a member of the royal family and Kuwait 's ambassador to America , visited Phoenix in order to reacquaint himself with the Phoenician . |
| 6 | No sooner had Franz Pfeffer returned home to Germany after a stint as his country 's ambassador to France , than he was sent back again . |
| 7 | On another occasion he publicly told the wife of Britain 's ambassador to France that she was ‘ not fit to be an ambassador 's wife ’ . |
| 8 | He was not Henry VIII 's ambassador to France for nothing . |
| 9 | Plans for an Indo-Russian venture to manufacture and export tanks and aircraft to the Third World , anticipated during a recent visit by the Russian State Secretary Gennady Burbulis [ see p. 38914 ] , were confirmed on June 16 by Russia 's ambassador to India , Anatoly Drukov . |
| 10 | Guatemala 's ambassador to Washington , Edmond Mulet , resigned in disgust , calling his boss a dictator . |
| 11 | On April 11 an anti-Castro Cuban exile José Dionisio Suárez y Esquivel was arrested in St Petersburg , Florida , in connection with the assassination on Sept. 21 , 1976 , of Orlando Letelier , Chile 's ambassador to Washington in 1970-73 , when he entered Allende 's Cabinet [ see pp. 28273-74 ] . |
| 12 | The former communist , Algirdas Brazauskas , who wants to mend fences with Russia to ease an economic crisis , is tipped to defeat Stasys Lozoraitis , an emigre who became Lithuania 's ambassador to Washington . |
| 13 | ‘ When I look I do n't see a Kurdish state , ’ said Turkey 's ambassador to Iraq , ‘ just 400,000 miserable people . ’ |
| 14 | Mohammed Hussein Nagdi , who resigned as Iran 's ambassador to Italy in 1982 to campaign for the government 's overthrow , was killed on his way to work when the hit squad pulled up beside his car and opened fire with a submachine gun , police said . |
| 15 | Indonesia 's ambassador to Malaysia , Sunarso Djajusman , observed : " Perhaps Singapore sees Indonesia as being less of a danger compared with Malaysia … |
| 16 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |
| 17 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |
| 18 | Norway 's ambassador to Myanma ( based in Singapore ) was refused a visa to visit the country to try to persuade the government to allow her to receive the prize in Oslo in December . |
| 19 | The Costa Rican Interior and Security Minster Luis Fishman Zonzinski , the Honduran Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán , Mgr Luis Alfonso Santos , Mexico 's ambassador to Costa Rica , Jesús Cabrera Muñoz Ledo , and a Honduran police colonel , were seized on Sept. 23 in the Costa Rican capital , San José , by a member of the Honduran left-wing Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement ( MPLC or Cinchoneros ) with whom they were apparently holding a meeting . |
| 20 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |