consul

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Recent Examples of consul Video games are not just the latest shooter or combat titles released for gaming consuls and PCs. Andrew McGowan, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025 In the letter Leclerc demanded to enter the port while denying that in sending these troops, part of the largest expedition to ever sail from France, the first consul intended to reinstate slavery. Marlene L. Daut september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 Titus, Roman emperor from AD 79 to 81, sent two consuls to the Campanian region where Pompeii is located after the eruption to provide aid, assess the city and reallocate the property of those who had died in the eruption with no surviving heirs, Zuchtriegel said. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025 On May 1, the Guatemalan vice consul and a female staffer in Tucson visited Mateo to check on her well-being after receiving a notification from CBP. Raphael Romero Ruiz, AZCentral.com, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for consul
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Noun
  • Senior Chinese leaders including top diplomat Wang Yi and heads of economic and financial ministries typically speak to the press during the Two Sessions.
    Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But there is widespread anger over the attacks by Iran, the diplomat said.
    Andrea Mitchell, NBC news, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.
    Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • The Dicastery for Bishops organizes such appointments, via the Vatican’s ambassador to the country—the nuncio.
    Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The ceremony will be presided over by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States.
    Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Emily Hampsten, deputy chief of staff for Durbin, confirmed Wednesday morning that the senator was referring to the Sacramento mother.
    Mathew Miranda Updated March 4, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Law enforcement called off the chase because of safety concerns, but deputies later found the Chevrolet at a gas station in Georgetown, according to the affidavit.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • After that 12-day war in June, Tehran was left with little negotiating leverage, its nuclear facilities heavily damaged, its proxies nearly neutralized and its economy in tatters.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Khamenei had ruled Iran since 1989, seeing off opponents at home while extending Tehran’s power across the Middle East via a network of proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • British foreign minister said the UK is working with airlines to boost evacuations, while France arranged two flights on Tuesday.
    Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Ireland welcomes flight from Dubai to Dublin Ireland’s foreign minister said Emirates airlines would operate a flight from Dubai to Dublin on Wednesday.
    Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Iran says nuclear site was targeted Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters that airstrikes targeted the Natanz nuclear enrichment site on Sunday.
    Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Reza Najafi, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters that airstrikes targeted the Natanz nuclear enrichment site on Sunday.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2026

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