Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "high commission".
Thus it was decided to eavesdrop on the Ethiopian government from the British High Commission office in Aden, which on independence would become an embassy.
He'd come out here because he'd sensed that if he'd stayed in Cheltenham I would have lost direction and run the whole of the mission into the ground, and now that he'd got here he was testing the ropes for slack and getting down to business, conning a safe house for me and tapping the High Commission for resources and debriefing me within hours of his landing in Singapore.
In desperation I telephoned the British High Commission and was put through to the labor attache.
Once in Dublin, I could apply for another New Zealand passport from the High Commission and fly out.
At another time it wanted him to put down a most infamous Church abuse, called the High Commission Court, and he quarrelled with it about that.
If a Federation High Commission were to investigate the progress of this convention over the past ten months, they would, I am most certain, declare the body politic—.
If a Federation High Commission were to investigate the progress of this convention over the past ten months, they would, I am most certain, declare the body politic-the corpus comitatus-of the people of Zarathustra Colony to be incompetent to manage its own affairs.
They-a Federation High Commission-would then appoint a guardian government for us-a political nanny, if you will-to look after us, since we had demonstrated mat we could not look after ourselves.
That he had been promised the photographs so readily was not remarkable, since the bronze man held a high commission, no whit less effective because it was honorary, on the New York police force.