noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
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Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels.
soviet
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The Soviet ambassador to the United Nations and other officials noted the resemblance between the two proposals.
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Permanent official contacts were established in the same month with the Soviet Union and a Soviet ambassador to the Vatican was appointed.
■ VERB
appoint
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He studied law and was appointed ambassador to Paris in the 1970s.
become
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Malekith became his personal ambassador here and thus were sown the seeds of tragedy.
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But George Bush lasted only one term, and Bill Bennett became an ambassador without portfolio.
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Prince Andrew has left the Royal Navy after 22 years of service to become a trade ambassador .
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I become her ambassador to the outside world, bringing back to Nearing observations and stories.
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Mrs Albright requested anonymity, but when she became ambassador to the United Nations, she permitted her name to be published.
recall
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In the summer, the two sides took the unprecedented step in the Warsaw Pact of recalling their two ambassadors .
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In 1885 the two countries had even been on bad enough terms to recall their respective ambassadors .
send
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In any case many rulers were for long reluctant to send ambassadors to foreign capitals if a lower-ranking representative would suffice.
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North Amenca, in turn, has sent poor ambassadors abroad.
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A tribunal was decided on in Rome and Philip sent ambassadors to plead his case.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Madam President/Ambassador etc
envoy/ambassador/minister extraordinary
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He was an Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiaryfor all mankind.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ms Takahashi was the first Japanese woman ever to be appointed ambassador to a foreign country.
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Sir Auckland Geddes is the British ambassador to Washington,
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Act the ambassador rather than the captain of cavalry.
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He was, after all, an ambassador for his country.
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In the next few months, the two countries are to exchange ambassadors.
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Mobuto spoke briefly to the Zimbalan ambassador in Swahili then beckoned the tall bodyguard towards him.
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Perhaps her greatest asset as ambassador was her access to President Clinton, whom she had known for many years.