plenipotentiary

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Recent Examples of plenipotentiary All empires have, like the Roman Empire, been… The American System and the World Organization On the day our plenipotentiaries exchange their full powers, an immortal date will be inscribed in American diplomatic history. Ezequiel Padilla, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024 These succeeded to the extent that a meeting was brought about in 1880 between plenipotentiaries of the three belligerents and the American Ministers accredited to those countries on board an American naval vessel in the harbor of Arica. Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011 The hope of students of Latin-American affairs that the present protocol marks the termination of this bitter controversy may be somewhat tempered by the realization that this is not the first time that a protocol of adjustment has been signed by plenipotentiaries. Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011 Walpole’s most frequent correspondent was Horace Mann, the British plenipotentiary in Florence, Italy. Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022 Then came Bob, the king of Thailand’s valet plenipotentiary. Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019 Morris was eventually the United States’ plenipotentiary to France and spent years afterward touring Europe and having affairs there. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 4 June 2019
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Noun
  • What To Know Marie Fontanel, who is the French ambassador to the Philippines, wrote on Monday in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that FS Charles de Gaulle, France's aircraft carrier, left the Southeast Asian country and returned to the South China Sea after a three-day visit.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Several K-pop stars have become brand ambassadors for Calvin Klein in recent years, including BTS’ Jungkook — featured in the spring 2024 jeans campaign — Blackpink’s Jennie, Sandara Park of 2NE1 and Red Velvet’s Joy and Sunmi.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Istanbul negotiations followed earlier discussions between senior diplomats from both nations in Saudi Arabia, as well as a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Putin.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the talks followed an understanding reached during President Donald Trump's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and contact between senior Russian and U.S. diplomats and other officials in Saudi Arabia.
    JILL LAWLESS AND AAMER MADHANI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • On Friday, the Trump administration sent an emissary to Venezuela to meet directly with Maduro, and return home with six American hostages.
    Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2025
  • That was the year when Fred Popenoe, proprietor of the West India Gardens nursery in Altadena, sent an emissary to Mexico with the task of bringing back budwood cuttings for the purpose of grafting them onto avocado seedlings, with the hope that some would become commercially successful varieties.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.
    Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Franciscan Plano Carpini, who traveled the empire as papal legate in 1246, described a draconian tax collector demanding one in three boys from every Russian family, as well as unmarried women.
    Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
Noun
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz, and Middle East special envoy Steve Witoff attended the first meeting earlier this month with Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Saudi Arabia, with discussions including Ukraine and their own economic arrangement.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, has earned Trump's trust as an adept negotiator given his breakthrough on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza but he has also been tapped to play a role in putting an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, potentially limiting his bandwidth.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Goff has had a storied political career and has served as foreign minister, a Labour Party leader and mayor of Auckland.
    Rachel Wolf, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In 2018, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, a Yezidi woman who survived ISIS atrocities, asked Turkey's foreign minister to stop airstrikes on Sinjar.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Patel, a former Justice Department attorney and longtime Trump ally, is one of the latest presidential appointees to be confirmed by the Senate.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • That explanation was both baffling and music to the ears of defense attorneys who have represented athletes with positive doping tests.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025

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