How to Use high commissioner in a Sentence

high commissioner

noun

• Tuesday’s visit was part of a larger tour of the region for the high commissioner.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2021
• The high commissioner’s office was supposed to produce the list in 2017.
  — Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• In 2001, he was named the United Nations high commissioner for refugees.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• That’s when John Doble, a British high commissioner to Swaziland, wandered into the park.
  — Jessica Flint, Outside Online, 7 May 2018
• In 2001, he was appointed the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.
  — kansascity, 17 Feb. 2018
• Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner was taken at gunpoint on the highway in 2016 and held for five days before he was let go.
  — CBS News, 20 Jan. 2018
• Sierra Leone’s deputy high commissioner was taken at gunpoint on the highway in 2016 and held for five days before he was let go.
  — Sam Olukoya, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, noted both the Taliban's vows and the fear of those now under their rule.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2021
• That the report was issued by Michelle Bachelet, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, should have special meaning.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 17 July 2019
• Already, as many as 1 million people have been forced to flee Ukraine, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees said late Wednesday.
  — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2022
• The agency’s top office—the high commissioner for human rights—is vacant after the latest incumbent, Michelle Bachelet, stepped down at the end of Wednesday.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• The cause of the explosion in Poni province was not yet known, Poni's high commissioner Antoine Douamba told state television.
  — Reuters and Cnn, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
• That British official was Herbert Samuel, the high commissioner for Palestine.
  — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2023
• The report was delivered hours before the end of a four-year term by the agency’s high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, and emerged despite strong objection by Beijing.
  — Chun Han Wong and James T. Areddy, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The visit is not without risk for the high commissioner’s reputation.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Laura Clarke, the British high commissioner to New Zealand, met with local iwi, or tribes, in two separate ceremonies.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2019
• Louis Le Franc, the high commissioner for New Caledonia, called on both loyalist and pro-independence citizens to heed the call for calm.
  — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 15 May 2024
• His focus is on Venezuela, a country that has lost at least 1.5 million people as conditions have worsened, according to the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.
  — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• In 1956 he was named high commissioner to Australia, where his father had been born and where his family had extensive interests.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• In 1956, he was named high commissioner to Australia, where his father had been born and where his family had extensive interests.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• In 1947 India became an independent country and Menon its first high commissioner to Britain.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Jozef Merkx, representative for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees in Colombia, said the agency is concerned about the operations.
  — Anthony Faiola, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Chinese diplomats in Geneva sought to discredit the report as lacking support in the high commissioner’s office.
  — Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• The high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations said Friday her mission in Ukraine has uncovered growing evidence of war crimes, and has verified the killings of at least 2,345 civilians.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• That is a sign that checks and balances have been chiseled away, leaving state authorities unaccountable, said Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the high commissioner.
  — Fox News, 22 June 2018
• The Maduro government has argued that the mission’s mandate, which expires this year, should not be extended because of the existence of the local high commissioner’s human rights office.
  — Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Filippo Grandi, high commissioner for the refugee agency, praised Jolie's dedication to her work.
  — Pamela Falk, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is also visiting the region on a trip that faces severe limitations.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022
• Although the government released some prisoners, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights in early April called for the release of all political detainees at risk because of covid-19.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• But ultimately, the UN high commissioner for human rights issued a report that was far more critical of China’s behavior.
  — James Millward, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024