The Harvard-educated former diplomat, who speaks fluent English and Chinese, is lauded for his grasp of policy and willingness to speak his mind. |
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Iran's foreign minister says he's optimistic about tomorrow's sit-down with the State Department's third highest ranking diplomat William Burns. |
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I think the chief diplomat probably ought to tell the truth about the regime. |
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Chief Seattle, a Suquamish Indian who lived on the Puget Sound outside the city that bears his name, was a skilled diplomat and a great orator. |
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The career diplomat made a brief and humble statement before taking the oath of office. |
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She sells them to a jeweller in Turkey where a handsome diplomat buys them. |
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It had stood empty for half a year, an almost new place, with parking, owned by a diplomat posted overseas. |
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These duties such as chief legislator, head of party, chief of state, and chief diplomat truly define the scope of the presidency. |
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One diplomat calls it probably the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe. |
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Economist, writer, diplomat and public servant, he was also a collector with wide-ranging enthusiasms. |
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Imagine what chagrin we can bring to this nation if we were to sneer or giggle at a visiting diplomat from say Nigeria or India! |
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The diplomat explained that people were booing, an expression of disapproval. |
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It was conducted by a diplomat who had served as an ambassador to three African countries. |
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One of them is a marketing executive of a tobacco company and the other a career diplomat and former colleague of the PCB chief. |
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The competition is in memory of Manfred Lachs, the renowned Polish educator, diplomat, jurist and space law expert. |
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The outspoken career diplomat may be Washington's woman in Havana, but for the Cuban government, she's the embodiment of the ugly American. |
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As one diplomat pointed out, that amounts to three weeks' oil profits for the government. |
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A senior Kuwaiti diplomat told this corespondent this evening that the negotiations had now zeroed in on money. |
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It is the curse of the diplomat who, in attempting to please everyone, ends up pleasing nobody. |
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You need to be an organiser, negotiator, diplomat and entertainer, ready to deal with anything and everything. |
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But the carefully modulated tones of this career diplomat were not the red meat that Fleet Street desired. |
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The other diplomat was still speechless, and through his anger, cracks of panic were showing. |
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He's the first diplomat to represent an Arab country in the new Iraq and had just arrived on the job in June. |
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The silver-haired diplomat was considered one of the leading lights of the UN and a potential candidate to become secretary general. |
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No diplomat anywhere is likely to turn the other cheek if his president is held up to ridicule in a public forum. |
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The South African diplomat said Africans accepted the fact that a leader will at one point run out of ideas. |
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However, unexpectedly, the highest ranking US diplomat did not come to make demands that Resolution 1559 be implemented. |
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In a rarely seen move, she postures the father with his back to the audience as soon as the diplomat proposes the arrangement. |
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A Mandarin-speaking former diplomat, in public he is an appealing character: erudite, eloquent, witty and even, on occasion, self-deprecating. |
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He then embarked upon a year in Prague, where his mother's ambassadorial connections secured a year-long internship as a trainee diplomat with the European Commission. |
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The diplomat is loyal, kind, satisfied, forgiving, self-effacing and self-sacrificing. |
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He was an artist, poet, lecturer, teacher, diplomat and, on any mountain trail, a martinet. |
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They simply found another senior Canadian diplomat and dragged him by the scruff of the neck before the parliamentary committee. |
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You referred to the involvement of a diplomat in conspiratorial and other types of activity. |
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On one recent outing, to a funfair, he enjoyed a ride with a young British diplomat and the Chinese ambassador. |
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Her father was a diplomat and courtier, her mother a German-speaking Balt. |
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The visit of a Canadian diplomat serves as an important source of moral support for the detained activist and his or her family. |
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In 1993, a few months after moving into his office in the prestigious Cathedral Avenue, this senior diplomat committed his first faux pas. |
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Pakistani authorities must have known the jailbreak was coming, the diplomat says. |
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The UK's former top climate diplomat at the foreign office, John Ashton, told the Guardian that the decision by Australia was puzzling. |
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This Austrian diplomat is also the EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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One Western diplomat said he was aware of the Facebook access problems but did not know what had caused them. |
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They gave the diplomat the address of the nearest police station, where he could report the incident. |
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The comment was echoed by a foreign diplomat in Hanoi who asked not to be named. |
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In the 1960s, when I was a very young Japanese diplomat in West Africa, I had the opportunity to meet that Wise Man of Africa. |
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The missive was passed to Washington through a Swiss diplomat and rejected without even a response by the Bush team. |
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Hempel was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else. |
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They have ordered the expulsion of a diplomat it accuses of spying. |
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As chief diplomat of the United States, the president has the power to negotiate treaties and appoint diplomatic representatives to other countries, including ambassadors, ministers, and consuls. |
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A recitation of these roles invariably starts with the president's role as chief of state, then on to chief politician, chief legislator, and chief diplomat until finally chief manager is reached. |
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And then when I asked him where the chief diplomat was, he shouted that as far as I was concerned he was the chief diplomat and all the other diplomats. |
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Speculations are rife in diplomatic circles that the country's chief diplomat is making a surreptitious bid though he has carefully veiled his ambition. |
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I noted with disgust that after reports of casualties began to surface, the controversial diplomat began to resile from the position taken in his report. |
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Aloof and bookish, Pius XI spent years as a Vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal. |
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The evening also gave me the opportunity to say adios and vaya con dios to popular diplomat and good friend, Ecuadorean Ambassador Juan Salazar Sancisi. |
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A senior diplomat from another council member said his government had heard a similar message and was told not to anguish over whether to vote for war. |
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Asked what the manifestation of that rage will be, the former Iranian diplomat laughed nervously. |
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The microblogging hostilities began in September 2011, after a Taliban attack on a foreign diplomat neighborhood in Kabul. |
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Well Bruce Haig is a diplomat no longer, in fact he's a farmer, and he joins me from Gunnedah in New South Wales where he's actually attending an agricultural field day. |
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Elsewhere in the article an anonymous diplomat says the U.S. has a newfound willingness to negotiate with insurgent groups, a risky but potentially fruitful concession. |
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Bowring was not a career diplomat, but a West Country ironmaster. |
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The official, a career diplomat who speaks fluent French and likes to vacation in Italy, sat back and took an appreciative sip from his glass of good red wine from Bordeaux. |
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Owen was an influential diplomat who helped institutionalize global economic summitry in the 1970s and was considered an intellectual framer of the Trilateral Commission. |
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The Japanese government had initially held out against committing the funds for financial reasons, according to a diplomat, but eventually relented. |
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The great diplomat has arrived to pour oil on troubled waters. |
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This diplomat is considered to be the inventor of the modern glass wine bottle characterized by its neck reinforced with a seal. |
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Military chief and diplomat, senior minister and art lover, he owned more than 130 castles. |
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But her father was a high-flier, a Glaswegian diplomat whose postings took him to Tanzania, Paris, Norway and Madagascar. |
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A U.S. diplomat once spoke with bitterness of the breadth of his power when negotiating with an uncooperative dictator. |
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In addition to improving his golf game, Robert Borden worked as a diplomat, business executive, university chancellor, and author. |
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The Duke de Saint-Simon, the diplomat and memoirist, described him as honourable, lovable, and unpretentious. |
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Though taken aback by the party leader's brutishness, the diplomat was not surprised by the message. |
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Sir Mark Sykes, a crusty diplomat who had colluded with the French to give them Damascus, was more defiantly a misogynist. |
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One participant recalled an anecdote about the evolving views of a diplomat who once served on the Council, but now serves in the field in Africa. |
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The problem, says a diplomat from Japan, which is expecting to pay for a good chunk of the aid, is working out a way to ensure that North Korea sticks to a timetable of dismantlement even as it gets regular deliveries of aid. |
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He also worked as a courtier, a diplomat, and a civil servant, as well as working for the king from 1389 to 1391 as Clerk of the King's Works. |
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When Chaucer was sent as a diplomat to Italy in 1378, Gower was one of the men to whom he gave power of attorney over his affairs in England. |
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Vietnam's government is attracting unwelcome attention after a security officer manhandled an American diplomat this week in the central city of Hue. |
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Among the newcomers is the Bangkok Tree House, a stylish, ecofriendly boutique hotel that Joey Tulyanond, the 37-year-old son of a Thai diplomat, opened last year. |
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By publishing the confidential strategy paper, therefore, the appellant was in part attempting, as it were, to sideline from the negotiations a leading diplomat whose style he disliked. |
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She is a career diplomat and an international lawyer by profession. |
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A CSIS official pressed a foreign diplomat posted in Canada for information although the diplomat, who was suspected of being a foreign intelligence asset, had clearly changed his mind about speaking with the Service. |
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Obtain feedback from the diplomat regarding whether the situation or case was raised, what the response was, what commitments were made by local authorities and what the follow-up will be. |
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Seventy-nine soldiers have been killed, along with a diplomat and thousands of people in Afghanistan who became casualties of this war, civilians I might add. |
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While Nixon looked peaked throughout the debate, Kennedy looked like a poised diplomat oozing confidence. |
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He was highly intelligent, supple, and farseeing as a strategist, and adept as a diplomat, not only abroad but also within the foreign-policy bureaucracy in Washington. |
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A Cuban government spokesman did not return calls seeking comment on Wednesday, but Josefina Vidal, Cuba's top diplomat for US affairs, recently ruled out any return of political refugees. |
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But, as a businessman and a writer and a diplomat, he might very well have been willing to dramatize, or even overdramatize, something he believed to be essentially the truth. |
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Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away. |
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One diplomat believes that Bosnia's gridlock has got so bad, and the political atmosphere so poisonous, that for the first time since 1995 the unthinkable of renewed fighting is thinkable once again. |
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After the fall of Acre, Edward's international role changed from that of a diplomat to an antagonist. |
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By getting the French diplomat involved in the knighting, Elizabeth was gaining the implicit political support of the French for Drake's actions. |
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The formal leave-taking ceremony of a diplomat can take all day just to say we'll have my replacement here tomorrow. |
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He first went to Calais and then on to Paris, riding horseback, with a letter from diplomat Henry Wotton to ambassador John Scudamore. |
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The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family and settled down in England. |
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Some passports attest to status as a diplomat or other official, entitled to rights and privileges such as immunity from arrest or prosecution. |
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It was founded in 2012 by the Somali diplomat Idd Mohamed, Ambassador extraordinary and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. |
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Although his funeral was attended by the nobles of Scotland, no major politician or diplomat mentioned his death in their letters that survive. |
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Lady Lindsay was a landscape gardener and wife of lifelong British diplomat Sir Ronald Lindsay. |
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The Chancellor of the University is Sir Emyr Jones Parry GCMG, a distinguished former diplomat and Ambassador to the United Nations. |
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The plenipotentiary of the Czar was Count George Mocenigo, a noble from Zante who had earlier served as Russian diplomat in Italy. |
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His son Ivan Maksimovich Perfilyev was also a famous voevoda and diplomat in Siberia. |
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It was an intentional exhortation to make this supposedly mild diplomat strongly warn the French of their perilous course. |
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Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression. |
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His collected works, comprising 28 volumes, reveal the many facets of his outstanding intellectual abilities as poet, educator, diplomat, leader and revolutionary ideologist. |
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The MB had accused Zaidan of being part of the Qadhafi dictatorship as he once served as a diplomat abroad. |
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An EU diplomat told AFP the decision was taken by so-called qualified majority vote. |
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And he was impeccably mannered but ruthless as British diplomat Sir Bernard Pellegrin in The Constant Gardener, for which he earned those reviews hailing his decadent jaw. |
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The current problems of eurozone members Greece and Ireland have not discouraged Warsaw from its goal of joining the euro zone, the diplomat confirmed. |
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By these standards, one might conclude that civility is best exemplified by the polished hypocrisy of a diplomat in an unfriendly capital or the supercilious correctness of a waiter in a pricey Paris restaurant. |
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For distraction I get chatting to a British diplomat in the queue, but then notice she is stammering and shaking from nerves for some reason of her own. |
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There was a gathering storm and lots of people were asleep at the switch, except seemingly a former top diplomat James Bartleman. |
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As a philologist, diplomat and philosopher of sorts, Baron Humboldt deplored the lack of schooling in observation mainly because it leads to a public acceptance of fallacious reasoning. |
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Of Thai and African-American heritage, McClure spoke from the perspective of a former drill sergeant, Airborne School instructor, U. S. diplomat in Africa, and company first sergeant. |
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Hosni Mubarak also played the role of mediator, negotiator as well as high level diplomat, so that Egypt was able to reassume its position as leader of the Arab world. |
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It didn't matter than Francis was a diplomat in every sense of the word and Morial was known for his short fuse and speaking his mind. |
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So become a diplomat, eat humble pie, and get these people on your side. |
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A SENIOR Foreign Office diplomat launched an anti-Jewish tirade at a gym, a court heard yesterday. |
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Who will confide in any Canadian diplomat now, knowing that the information will be passed on according to the partisan political agenda of the Prime Minister and his chief of staff? |
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As one diplomat rattled off a list of economic governance policies to EurActiv over the phone, he argued that Hungary will have just as much credibility as any other country sitting around the EU table. |
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It would be the first time the United States' top diplomat and defense chief visit the DMZ together. |
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This diplomat accomplished her mission with no trouble, restructured all of the institute's activities, updated its computerization, redesigned its customer service and modernized management of human resources. |
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The diplomat accused the other nation's leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations' shared border. |
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By showing a peace pipe, or calumet, a diplomat could walk safely among enemies, and when negotiations were successful a calumet ceremony ratified the peace. |
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On July 22, 1985, following a CSIS investigation, the Department of External Affairs declared a Bulgarian diplomat, Vitaly Ivan Delibaltov, persona non grata. |
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Bangladeshi diplomat Humayun Rashid Choudhury served as President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
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The consuls also served as the chief diplomat of the Roman state. |
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Maurice continued sending secret offers to Isabella after Albert had died in July 1621, through the intermediary of the Flemish painter and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens. |
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Grotius was the father of regent and diplomat Pieter de Groot. |
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The Iranian government says it doesn't know who kidnaped its diplomat or where he is being held and has heard nothing from his adductors, but knows that he is in good health. |
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The ambassador is a political appointee, not a career diplomat. |
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The identity of the informant is known only through the memoires of French diplomat Philippe de Commines as Robert Stillington, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. |
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Aside from the services he provided guiding the only centre of literacy in the region, his reputation as a holy man led to his role as a diplomat among the tribes. |
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Richard conducted restoration work on St George's Chapel, the work being carried out by Geoffrey Chaucer, who served as a diplomat and Clerk of The King's Works. |
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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is a Vatican prelate and serves as a state diplomat and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, overseeing the property and revenue of the Vatican. |
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Zardasht said that the Director General Afghan Desk at the foreign ministry, Tipu Usman, visited the injured diplomat at PIMS and called for an investigation. |
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According to Prime Minister John Key, a court suppression order is blocking the government to reveal the identity of the diplomat who has now left New Zealand. |
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In 1955, the year in which Fonteyn married a Panamanian diplomat, they danced together in the first colour telecast of a ballet, NBC's production of The Sleeping Beauty. |
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In 1955 Fonteyn married Dr Roberto Arias, a Panamanian diplomat to London. |
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The missive was received back in London by David Barrie, a senior diplomat, who appended his own note. |
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Modern historians have freed Alexander's daughter from her popular but mistaken image as a poisoner and bedsheet diplomat. |
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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 was a diplomat, New York governor, and vice president of the United States. |
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His plan was to one day become a diplomat, but he was losing faith in the idea of international policy as a career path. |
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Over many pages, Proust vividly mimics the elaborately circumlocutious mode of speech of the elderly diplomat. |
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A Western diplomat, who would not speak for attribution, added to the praise. |
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He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. |
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On his death, the titles passed to his younger brother, the third Viscount, who was a prominent diplomat. |
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As a diplomat, he attended the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference and worked for the League of Nations in Geneva. |
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Ivan was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, and founder of the Moscow Print Yard, Russia's first publishing house. |
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The president of Iceland is a largely ceremonial head of state and serves as a diplomat, but may veto laws voted by the parliament and put them to a national referendum. |
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According to General Tommy Franks, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent. |
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Recall that America's 18th century Founding Father was, among other things, an entrepreneur, author, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, self-help expert and aphorist. |
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