The president sent several emissaries to the peace talks. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : emissaries to negotiate a peace. From Dictionary.com.
He now stared at the three emissaries from the Polish king: 'I can see why your Jagiello wants to battle the Germans, but why should 1?'. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
Certain French emissaries had crept into their towns and were busily engaged, with bribes and arguments, in stimulating them to continued warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Francis Marion]
The French Police were searching for Germans in British uniforms, and everyone felt that some of the inhabitants might be housing emissaries from the German lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Great War As I Saw It] Reference
Her emissaries were the Franciscan friars; her method the founding of. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
There is a Hasidic group that calls their emissaries around the world "lamplighters.". From Wordnik.com. [Canada Free Press] Reference
States, where the unfortunate victims figure as "English emissaries," is not even alluded to either in our "Annual Register," "Knight's. From Wordnik.com. [The Relations Between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States, from the Treaty of Ghent until the Inauguration of President Lincoln] Reference
The emissaries were the influential Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, and Said Jalili of the Iranian Intelligence Service. From Wordnik.com. [Power Line] Reference
And now we find they were already playing games, and people were calling emissaries to have them go to the governor, and that we didn't get the whole story. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Us the Business] Reference
Like the fairies of Celtic mythology, these "emissaries" are enticingly liminal, at once worldly and wary. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
DeBonis writes that Barry buttonholed him at the Ward 5 straw poll Monday night to talk about how "emissaries" for Fenty had courted his support. From Wordnik.com. [Barry says Fenty would 'love to get' his support] Reference
The New York Times reports today that the mayor's "emissaries" were. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
The "emissaries" set out a wish to purchase several helicopters and shoulder-carried missile systems. From Wordnik.com. [Pravda.Ru] Reference
One night a report was brought in that a party of Abolition "emissaries" had been located, and scouts were sent out to take observations. From Wordnik.com. [War stories and school-day incidents for the children,] Reference
We will be sending emissaries very soon to verify the case. From Wordnik.com. [The H.D. Chronicles, chapter 1] Reference
And they become the best emissaries I can imagine for classical music. From Wordnik.com. ['From The Top': 10 Years Of Classical Kids] Reference
They've become cultural emissaries -- thinkers, visual poets, city makers. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Two Towers] Reference
Brushing aside the pedantic little protest, the emissaries laid out their case. From Wordnik.com. [The People Vs. The Plotters] Reference
The result was most fortunate for us and unfortunate for the southern emissaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Was it, indeed, a part of the great Southern rebellion, instigated by the emissaries of. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"They had at least a half-dozen emissaries approach me about supporting him," said Barry. From Wordnik.com. [Barry claims Fenty wanted his support] Reference
Investment in the people who are willing to be our emissaries around the world is critical. From Wordnik.com. [My Turn: A Survivor Of The Embassy Bombing In Kenya On Terrorism] Reference
"They had at least a half-dozen emissaries approach me about supporting him," Barry told DeBonis. From Wordnik.com. [Barry says Fenty would 'love to get' his support] Reference
More often, deals (or their main principles) are hashed out in total secrecy by trusted emissaries. From Wordnik.com. [Shhhh! Peace Comes Quietly in Israel] Reference
Otherwise she did not touch on the topic of my having been cut adrift by my cousin, or his emissaries. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Yeltsin emissaries prepare to visit Gorbachev; soon after, reports say the putschists are fleeing Moscow. From Wordnik.com. [The People Vs. The Plotters] Reference
They could be all the emissaries to the universe we require, our endless entertainment as they stumble to the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Out Where We Belong] Reference
Almost lifeless, Servius was slain by emissaries of Lucius as he was making his way to his home on the Esquiline Hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Their emissaries were known to be working all over Canada, freely distributing American gold and holding secret meetings. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
While the fighting still raged, Taliban commanders were already sending boastful emissaries across the border into Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [The Unfinished War] Reference
A couple of months later they arrested one of the two emissaries of ETA in this negotiation with the excuse of a traffic violation. From Wordnik.com. ['It Has To Be Al Qaeda'] Reference
He sent emissaries on a mission to - Athens, which was then a shabby little outpost that had been under the Ottoman thumb for 400 years. From Wordnik.com. [Romancing the Stones] Reference
We were in close touch with the shore through fishing-canoes by day and secret emissaries by night, who brought us news that some German. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Yet here, amid these infinite labyrinths, even the power of Rome was unavailing, and her baffled emissaries faltered at the very entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
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