What is "embassies"

Usage examples of "embassies".

Caesar, on being informed of their acts, since he saw that war was being prepared on all sides, that the Nervii, Aduatuci, and Menapii, with the addition of all the Germans on this side of the Rhine were under arms, that the Senones did not assemble according to his command, and were concerting measures with the Carnutes and the neighboring states, that the Germans were importuned by the Treviri in frequent embassies, thought that he ought to take measures for the war earlier [than usual].

For the disaster respecting the death of Sabinus having been circulated among them, almost all the states of Gaul were deliberating about war, sending messengers and embassies into all quarters, inquiring what further measure they should take, and holding councils by night in secluded places.

An intercourse of epistles and embassies, which rose and fell with the events of war, was maintained between the throne of Cairo and the camp of the Latins.

Peter, a friendly intercourse of letters and embassies was revived between the East and West.

Which embassies Caesar, because he was hastening into Italy and Illyricum, ordered to return to him at the beginning of the following summer.

And such great influence had he already acquired for himself in Gaul by these means, that embassies were flocking to him in all directions, and seeking, publicly and privately, his favor and friendship.

Besides, by secret messages and embassies, he tampers with the Allobroges, whose minds, he hopes, had not yet settled down after the excitement of the late war.

If a servant at one of the foreign embassies finishes work after dark, he is driven home for reasons of his security.

I was exhausted, and the diplomats had to be at their embassies early the next morning.

There were quite a few Michelles in Western embassies around the world, diplomats who, back in Washington, London, or Paris, had been ordinary, anonymous bureaucrats occupying cubbyhole houses in suburbia, taking the metro to work.

In Freetown, the Russian, Italian, and South Korean embassies had all recently shut down.

In the future, we’ll have a smaller number of magnet embassies that will handle the whole continent.

How many embassies in this city have an officer who works full-time, doing nothing other than investigating the human rights offenses of the government?

Nor did foreign embassies in Teheran advise their nationals that rising crime made it unsafe to use public transport, as embassies in nearby Uzbekistan and other former Soviet republics had begun to do.

In no other city in the world have walled foreign embassies so dominated the downtown area for so long as in Teheran.