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  • "I think if Sharon is made prime minister, we're likely to see an upsurge in Palestinian violence and an increasingly tough Israeli crackdown," says ex-U.S. ambassa-dor Samuel Lewis, who served in Israel in the 1970s and '80s.

    The Hawk Takes Flight 2008

  • The ambassa - dor from the dwarven nation had retained a sense of humor and self-deprecating whimsy that had lightened many an otherwise tedious session of negotiation.

    The Kinslayer Wars Niles, Douglas 1991

  • An awful rebel, and yet an ambassa - dor of peace; nothing but evil, yet filled with all goodness; a mass of corruption, and yet incorruptible; a child of wrath, and yet a child of God; a cloud of darkness, and yet a shining light.

    Gleanings of the Vintage, Or Letters to the Spiritual Edification of the ... 1813

  • The parsimony of the United States makes the richest nation in the world the only one that cannot be represented, thanks to the expense of the position, by a poor man as ambassa - dor to a foreign court.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • SECTION 3 He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such mea - sures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagree - ment between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassa - dors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • And when the preachers of the gospel have thus shown sinners the plague of their own hearts, they may with propriety and force address them in the language of the apostles, 'Now then we are ambassa - dors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, Be ye reconciled te God. "

    Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812

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