To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy. |
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Normal hail grows up as a drop of rain and is chosen to be frozen and sent to Earth as an envoy of impending nasty winter weather. |
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The agreement gives the UN special envoy the formal power to break any political deadlock. |
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The one-time Libyan envoy to London, he was expelled from Britain in 1980 for publicly threatening to murder dissidents. |
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Mr Blunkett's whistle-stop tour of the country as Mr Blair's backbench envoy will see him visit eight regions between now and the end of March. |
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Phipps sent an envoy bearing a white flag to demand his enemy's submission. |
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And these particular rooms were aired only for a barbarian envoy or a member of the merchant class. |
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Accompanying Taylor is Paul Speltz, who was appointed last month as the Treasury's envoy to China. |
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His background ticks all the right boxes for working for the royals, not least working closely with the UN special envoy in Sarajevo. |
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It seems that some groups are more equal than others in the eyes of the government's equality envoy. |
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The Russian envoy procured an analogous sum of 5000 chervonets from Augustus III for the Polish Confederates. |
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The lawmaker, hoping for discretion, deploys a shadowy envoy to send her child support in the form of regular wads of cash. |
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The Raja's envoy, Hari Chand, who reached Kiratpur on the Baisakhi day of 1661, presented the royal summons. |
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Egypt expelled the Turkish ambassador last year, prompting Ankara to declare the Egyptian envoy in Turkey persona non grata. |
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Instead of a rhyme scheme, the words at line end in the first stanza recur according to a preordained arrangement in the subsequent sexains and in the envoy. |
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A sestina is a highly structured poetic composition that is comprised of six six-line stanzas and a three-line concluding stanza known as an envoy. |
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Since then, Ford has served as the envoy in exile to the fractious Syrian opposition. |
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And, oh, by the way, they only speak to the dealer, United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, not to each other. |
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A Russian envoy reportedly played a role persuading the rebels in Slovyansk to let them go. |
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Standing close was a handsome Italian, reaching across him to place the first pile of napoleons from a new bagful just brought him by an envoy with a scrolled mustache. |
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The U.S. envoy is direct for a diplomat, but she showed during the Libyan crisis that bluntness can be effective. |
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He abdicated his role of objective journalist by repeatedly asking the envoy leading questions, loaded with venomous descriptions of the prime minister. |
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Galbraith and Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy, feel the elections are tainted and try to confront Karzai. |
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The shah's ambassador to Bijapur invited Afonso to send back an envoy to Persia. |
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Chancellor lost his life, although the Russian envoy survived to reach London. |
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A boyar envoy departed for Aleksandrova Sloboda to beg Ivan to return to the throne. |
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In 1551 the tsar sent his envoy to the Nogai Horde and they promised to maintain neutrality during the impending war. |
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Bush had preliminary talks with Blair to ask him to take up the envoy role. |
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Reuters reported that Japan would send an envoy to Myanmar to investigate the death of a videojournalist, Kenji Nagai. |
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In her first day as the EU's top envoy to the country, Lassen met with Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. |
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This letter fell into the hands of Pedro de la Gasca, an envoy sent by the Crown to pacify the country. |
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The envoy found the French king playing the part of horse while his young son rode atop. |
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And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar? |
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One of the men returned with an Incan envoy and an invitation for a meeting. |
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Francesco Guicciardini, a Venetian envoy, stated that hundreds of ships would pass Antwerp in a day, and 2,000 carts entered the city each week. |
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The next day, a special envoy from Charles II, Lord Arlington, met with William in Nieuwerbrug and presented a proposal from Charles. |
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On 19 June, Czar Alexander sent an envoy to seek an armistice with Napoleon. |
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The latter assured the envoy that the Vistula River represented the natural borders between French and Russian influence in Europe. |
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No other city in Germany participates in this exchange of envoys, and in Britain, only one other town, Wigan, receives and sends an envoy. |
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In 1103, then, Anselm consented to journey himself to Rome, along with the king's envoy William Warelwast. |
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His son, Thomas Chaucer, had an illustrious career, as chief butler to four kings, envoy to France, and Speaker of the House of Commons. |
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In 1936, a Confessing Church envoy protested to Hitler against the religious persecutions and human rights abuses. |
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Each European capital had an ECA envoy, generally a prominent American businessman, who would advise on the process. |
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From 1746, Hume served for three years as secretary to General James St Clair, who was envoy to the courts of Turin and Vienna. |
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In July 1498 the Spanish envoy Pedro de Ayala reported to Ferdinand and Isabella that. |
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This event was recorded in the book Yingyai Shenglan by Ma Huan who accompanied the imperial envoy. |
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Not every community sent an envoy, delegates were often entitled to represent a set of communities. |
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In the skirmish the French envoy Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville was left dead, leading to a diplomatic incident. |
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Charles sent an envoy who proposed a secession of hostilities if Chilperic would recognize his rights as mayor of the palace in Austrasia. |
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Federal subjects are grouped into eight federal districts, each administered by an envoy appointed by the President of Russia. |
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There, an envoy from the Levant invited them to meet Kublai Khan, who had never met Europeans. |
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Kublai Khan requested that an envoy bring him back oil of the lamp in Jerusalem. |
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A few days later, the King of Ormuz was met by an envoy demanding the payment of tribute to Shah Ismail I from Persia. |
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Manama had summoned its envoy after Iran criticized Bahraini regime over brutal suppression of Bahraini protesters. |
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For his part, the Somalian envoy expressed appreciation for Yemen's constant support to Somalia and Yemen's attitude towards Somalian refugees. |
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Bush's envoy to Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2003, led the multiparty talks. |
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That time, it was India's permanent envoy to the UN Hardeep Puri who was at the receiving end of the pat down at Austin airport. |
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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked his special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to postpone the Yemen peace talks. |
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Pakistan facilitated a trip of US envoy Hennery Kissinger, American National Security adviser, to China. |
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During the meeting, the Ecuadorian envoy said that he will do his best to consolidate bilateral ties and promote cooperation in all fields. |
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Voltaire was sent to Frederick's court in 1743 by the French government as an envoy and spy to gauge Frederick's military intentions in the War of the Austrian Succession. |
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With the paiza, there came authority that the envoy can ask for food, transport, place to stay from any city, village, or clan within the empire with no difficulties. |
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I was told first, the press will start behaving swinishly with any envoy, representative or adviser, and then, the rejectionist parties will start to undermine the UN chap. |
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In the end, Henry's envoy had to return without accomplishing much. |
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The envoy promotes the exchange of ideas between the two cities and acts as an educational and information officer to increase awareness of the twinning scheme. |
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European traders arrived in the early 16th century, beginning with the envoy of Portuguese duke Afonso de Albuquerque in 1511, followed by the French, Dutch, and English. |
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The US envoy appreciated Pakistan's positive role, especially that of General Raheel Sharif for bringing all parties to peace talks between Afghanistan Government and Taliban. |
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The Han dynasty expanded Central Asian sections of the trade routes around 114 BCE, largely through missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy, Zhang Qian. |
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In the 16th century, an Imperial envoy in Suleiman's court Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq reported having had a conversation with two Goths in Constantinople. |
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The racy, muscular, correct filly is a half sister to Grade 3 winner Roman Envoy. |
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Sale fares are available daily for Envoy class, but only between Monday and Thursday for coach class. |
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Former Senator and U.S. Envoy George Mitchell joins other top Washington players to deconstruct the shutdown crisis. |
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With the approach of war a military version of the Envoy was developed, to be called the Airspeed Oxford. |
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In 1995, the United States appointed George Mitchell as the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland. |
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The facility produces the Chevrolet TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy, Envoy Denali sport utility vehicles, Saab 9-7X and Isuzu Ascender vehicles. |
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The recall covers Chevrolet TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy, Buick Rainier, Isuzu Ascender and Saab 97-X SUVs from the 2006 and 2007 model years. |
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The recalled models include the 2006-2009 Buick LaCrosse, the 2006-2008 Saab 9-7X and Isuzu Ascender, and the 2006-2007 Buick Rainier, Chevrolet Trailblazer and GMC Envoy. |
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Last April, General Motors had a snafu with the new sport utility vehicles that it had just launched, the Chevy TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy, and aids Bravada. |
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