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  • It is a suite in a nice building that also houses the Guatemalan Consulate.†   (source)
  • The consulate and Home Rule Council fatlined us three standard weeks ago with the news that the Time Tombs showed signs of opening.†   (source)
  • Narcolombia doesn't need security because people are scared just to drive past the franchise at less than a hundred miles an hour (Y.T. always snags a nifty power boost in neighborhoods thick with Narcolombia consulates), and Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, the grandaddy of all FOQNEs, handles it in a typically Hong Kong way, with robots.†   (source)
  • I've a mind to send the consulate a bill for every tree we've had to cut and drag out of the way.†   (source)
  • Serena still had to put together a pile of documents, for Mass General and for the American consulate in Haiti so that she could get a visa for John.†   (source)
  • Being freed from the consulate with Elizabeth Mackey and Charles Foster With Barbara Bush at the White 11011se in 1991.†   (source)
  • Instead, he flew to Katmandu, Nepal, where the American Consulate was reputed to be more accommodating.†   (source)
  • On the far side of the bridge, they got into a taxi and drove to a medical clinic a block from the U.S. consulate.†   (source)
  • They asked for him in all the consulates, but he was never heard of again.†   (source)
  • Matron said, apologetically, "I got a call from the British Consulate.†   (source)
  • It took seven months to reach a station with a Radchaai consulate.†   (source)
  • Government thugs chased away the Argentinian ambassador by setting two live roosters on fire and flinging them, smoking, squawking, kicking, over the consulate wall.†   (source)
  • I want an immediate satellite transmission to our consulate in New York.†   (source)
  • And so he stands toe-to-toe with consul Eusebio Azcue at the Cuban consulate in Mexico City, arguing with him over the Soviet visa.†   (source)
  • Once he's in the West he can go to any consulate, even in a small town and get a visa for another country.†   (source)
  • Farther back is a large, glassed-in bookcase with sets of Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Lever, three sets of Shakespeare, The World's Best Literature in fifty large volumes, Hume's History of England, Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire, Smollett's History of England, Gibbons Roman Empire and miscellaneous volumes of old plays, poetry, and several histories of Ireland.†   (source)
  • After breakfast, Mr. Fogg, accompanied by Aouda, started for the English consulate to have his passport visaed.   (source)
  • Mr. Fogg thought it a useless precaution, but told him to do as he thought best, and went on to the consulate.   (source)
  • The same formalities having been gone through at the French consulate, and the palanquin having stopped at the hotel for the luggage, which had been sent back there, they returned to the wharf.   (source)
  • Passepartout and he had now reached the shop, where Fix left his companion to make his purchases, after recommending him not to miss the steamer, and hurried back to the consulate.   (source)
  • Meanwhile Mr. Fogg, after leaving the consulate, repaired to the quay, gave some orders to Passepartout, went off to the Mongolia in a boat, and descended to his cabin.   (source)
  • On reaching Yokohama, the detective, leaving Mr. Fogg, whom he expected to meet again during the day, had repaired at once to the English consulate, where he at last found the warrant of arrest.   (source)
  • Presently one of the passengers, after vigorously pushing his way through the importunate crowd of porters, came up to him and politely asked if he could point out the English consulate, at the same time showing a passport which he wished to have visaed.   (source)
  • The American consulate granted the visa at once.†   (source)
  • According to the people at the consulate, they never existed.†   (source)
  • Will you come back to the consulate with me… at least in an advisory capacity?†   (source)
  • Good morning, United States Consulate of the Netherlands, will you please hold?†   (source)
  • I landed in Keats a month after your replacement had taken over at the consulate.†   (source)
  • Good morning, United States Consulate of the Netherlands, will you please hold?†   (source)
  • Spoiling some consulate member's Christmas, the festive family meal.†   (source)
  • Webb's trip to Zurich was a routine consulate check, predated on the G-Two schedules.†   (source)
  • He should go to the French consulate and get them to help him find a better job.†   (source)
  • Consul Zhang was there, and his wife who was the translator, and several other consulate officials.†   (source)
  • The lady at the front desk warned them not to stray far: "This block around the consulate is okay.†   (source)
  • … Oh, yes, the young man from the consulate.†   (source)
  • The man introduced Deo to friends in the Burundian consulate.†   (source)
  • His parents were Komitet officers assigned to the consulate in Los Angeles for nearly twenty years.†   (source)
  • Oswald is "highly agitated and angry," in the eyes of one employee of the Cuban consulate.†   (source)
  • 'Because I do have several photographs in my vault at the consulate,' lied Catherine Staples.†   (source)
  • She also told them to get to the consulate early—the line could stretch around the block.†   (source)
  • Consul Zhang and the Chinese consulate sent a favorable report to the Ministry of Culture.†   (source)
  • And suddenly the whole consulate knew there was a sterile house in the colony.†   (source)
  • It took awhile for Ben to feel comfortable with me again after the consulate incident.†   (source)
  • They checked into the Quality Inn, a hotel on the same block as the consulate.†   (source)
  • He's quite popular with the consulate crowd.'†   (source)
  • Li, I've spoken to the Chinese consulate.†   (source)
  • Applicants weren't allowed inside the walls of the consulate.†   (source)
  • She called the Canadian consulate and was told how to get there by bus.†   (source)
  • So the consulate officials turned the lights out.†   (source)
  • So much of a connection that he did not dare use his consulate phone to call Staples.†   (source)
  • In any event, he knew he had to leave the consulate to help draft the legal documents.†   (source)
  • Each weekend we had to report to the Chinese consulate officials.†   (source)
  • Among other things, the major here established the fact that she did go to the Canadian consulate.†   (source)
  • 'I sent a copy to the Chinese consulate!' shouted McAllister.†   (source)
  • After Charles left the consulate, the Chinese officials had had enough.†   (source)
  • There was a consulate car waiting for her at the kerb, the maple leaf insignia printed on the door.†   (source)
  • The consulate officials seemed relaxed and friendly, but Ben was clearly furious.†   (source)
  • In seventy-two hours the consulate in Hong Kong will make sure of it.†   (source)
  • Consul Zhang at the consulate thinks I've masterminded this whole thing.†   (source)
  • It was both too late and too soon to go to the consulate.†   (source)
  • Our visas were approved by the American consulate in Beijing in a matter of days.†   (source)
  • When Charles left the consulate the morning papers were already out on the streets.†   (source)
  • Not the Canadian but the American consulate.†   (source)
  • One of the senior consuls was Zhang Zongshu, and his wife was a translator in the consulate.†   (source)
  • The Canadian consulate,' said Havilland.†   (source)
  • So Delworth drove Lori, Elizabeth and me to the Chinese consulate on Montrose Boulevard.†   (source)
  • If you doubt that, I suggest you call your consulate.†   (source)
  • You and your wife can come to the consulate any time to apply for your visas.†   (source)
  • I asked you for the number of the Iranian consulate.†   (source)
  • Li, the least you can do for me is explain all this to the consulate!†   (source)
  • But the woman refused to go to the police; she even refused to come inside the consulate.†   (source)
  • I don't know, the consulate is very cold toward me.†   (source)
  • That's the Canadian consulate, not the American.'†   (source)
  • Senior Consul Zhang Zongshu from the Chinese consulate was in the audience that evening.†   (source)
  • 'Smart corporal,' broke in Staples: 'Unsmart consulate,' said Nelson.†   (source)
  • You said your client has sources in the consulate.†   (source)
  • FBI numbers outside the consulate began to grow.†   (source)
  • Then I'll tell Consul Zhang that you will meet them at the consulate," he said and hung up.†   (source)
  • If I can, we'll pick up whoever it is in the consulate.'†   (source)
  • They demanded all the Westerners follow Charles and leave the consulate at once.†   (source)
  • Who do you think receives all communications from all outside sources at our consulate in Hong Kong?†   (source)
  • In a very loud and strident voice the consulate official ordered Charles to sit.†   (source)
  • Why didn't the manager call the consulate and talk to a military attache?'†   (source)
  • The consulate's been swamped by calls from the press-'†   (source)
  • The consulate is considered Chinese territory.†   (source)
  • The Canadian consulate, Staples's apartment.†   (source)
  • People were beginning to gather at the side entrance to the consulate.†   (source)
  • The entrance to the consulate was now much grander.†   (source)
  • In frustration and without caring, she had called the consulate.†   (source)
  • The consulate sent an attache to the South China News.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the day Charles went to and from the consulate, but he was not allowed back in.†   (source)
  • In my room at the top of the consulate, I was, of course, completely unaware of these developments.†   (source)
  • The consulate's been most co-operative.'†   (source)
  • These are a squad from the consulate contingent.†   (source)
  • So, in early 1988, with Mary holding my hand, I went back to the Chinese consulate in Houston.†   (source)
  • He'd have to tell the Chinese consulate, and I would he sent straight back to China.†   (source)
  • The consulate's been swamped by calls from the press-' The consulate?' broke in Conklin.†   (source)
  • I'm bringing her in to the consulate under the full protection of my government.†   (source)
  • Then, unknown to the consulate officials, Charles made another crucial call.†   (source)
  • Chinese Consulate Holding Eight Americans Hostage.†   (source)
  • 'The consulate press people called the media,' replied the undersecretary.†   (source)
  • I had been in this meeting room before, when I'd had to report to the consulate on weekends.†   (source)
  • Insert the consulate disk and search it through the computer.†   (source)
  • But Ben and my friends would not leave the consulate without me.†   (source)
  • Because there was no waiting period and the applicant did not appear at the consulate.†   (source)
  • Hadn't Consul Zhang told me this, that night at the consulate?†   (source)
  • There is no Canadian embassy in Hong Kong, but there is a consulate.†   (source)
  • But I was determined not to allow the consulate officials to see my tears or to sense my weakness.†   (source)
  • Are you planning to have dinner with the Canadian consulate's high commissioner soon?†   (source)
  • By now, rumors about my detention at the consulate had started to spread to Louisa's party.†   (source)
  • A woman stopped you in Garden Road when you were leaving the consulate.†   (source)
  • About the same time, Charles had his final discussion with Anne and Carl outside the consulate.†   (source)
  • Ask anyone in the consulates who's been in conferences with him.†   (source)
  • You didn't alert friendly embassies — consulates?†   (source)
  • Embassies and consulates constantly sought favours from one another.†   (source)
  • Sophie's SmartCar tore through the diplomatic quarter, weaving past embassies and consulates, finally racing out a side street and taking a right turn back onto the massive thoroughfare of Champs-Elysées.†   (source)
  • Come with me back to the consulate.†   (source)
  • The same pride that later allowed her to face down the angry mob of Separatists on the steps of the Hegemony consulate in South Tern and send them to their homes in shame.†   (source)
  • Leaving the room—going down to inquire about FedEx and to look at the State Department's website before I called the consulate — I stopped.†   (source)
  • If I went to a consulate in Paris to apply for a new passport: maybe less likelihood of connection with the Martin stuff.†   (source)
  • A major development was the Hegemony Protectorate's decision to send along on that expedition a fatline transmitter for installation at the Hegemony consulate in Keats.†   (source)
  • Since I didn't speak Dutch, I would go to the American consulate and have the consulate phone the Dutch police.†   (source)
  • My assumption was that the fiberplastic growers might tell me the truth even if they would have nothing to do with the consulate or Home Rule Authorities.†   (source)
  • Then I was greeted by a pleasant American voice: welcome to the United States consulate of the Netherlands, would I like to continue in English?†   (source)
  • The New Vatican had spent a fortune on fatline inquiries, but neither the colonial authorities nor the consulate in Keats had been able to locate the missing priest.†   (source)
  • During the undeclared war with the Free Miners in the Lambert Ring Territories, it was Lieutenant Kassad who led the surviving infantry troops and Marine guards in cutting through the bottom of the old asteroid bore shaft on Peregrine to evacuate the Hegemony consulate staff and citizens.†   (source)
  • Maybe I could have it witnessed and notarized at the American consulate; maybe Holly (or whoever) would take pity and call someone in to do it before they phoned the police.†   (source)
  • His former aide had gained half a dozen years on the Consul, but the younger man still had the boyish smile, thin face, and thick red hair that had attracted every unmarried woman-annot a few married ones-on the consulate staff.†   (source)
  • The telephone rang so long I'd drifted off into a dissociated fog when suddenly the line clicked on, easy American voice sounding fresh off the beach in Santa Cruz: "Good morning, American Consulate of the Netherlands, how may I help you?"†   (source)
  • Sitting on the balcony at Cicero's, it was all too easy to fall back into the rhythms of a former life; he would drink until the early morning hours, watch the predawn meteor showers as the clouds cleared, and then stagger to his empty apartment near the market, going into the consulate four hours later showered, shaved, and seemingly human except for the blood in his eyes and the insane ache in his skull.†   (source)
  • Walking away from him, I felt the furious gaze of a security camera burning into me; and I tried not to look self-conscious as I threaded through the crowds, floating and woozy with fever, grinding the phone number of the American consulate in my pocket.†   (source)
  • So the first Sol and Sarai heard of their daughter's accident was when the Hegemony consulate on Parvati fatlined the college that Rachel had been injured, that she was stable but unconscious, and that she was being transferred from Parvati to the Web world of Renaissance Vector via medical torchship.†   (source)
  • And there was also a third choice: since for various reasons I felt that a consulate member would be fairly speedy to return my call if I left an after-hours message stating that I was an American citizen wishing to turn myself in for capital murder.†   (source)
  • The Ousters contacted me through private fatline and I took a three weeks" leave from the Consulate, brought my ship down to an isolated place near the Sea of Grass, rendezvoused with their scoutship near the OOrt Cloud, picked up their agent-a woman named Andil-and a trio of technicians, and dropped down north of the Bridle Range, a few kilometers from the Tombs themselves.†   (source)
  • You never picked up anything, any rumors or backstairs gossip from our Asian embassies or consulates?†   (source)
  • Whole networks he had used as Cain, listening posts and ersatz consulates that were no more than electronic espionage stations … even the bloody specter of Medusa.†   (source)
  • The Radchaai consulate was staffed by the Translators Office, and the consular agent's spotless white uniform— including pristine white gloves—argued she either had a servant or spent a good deal of her free time attempting to appear as though she did.†   (source)
  • Mortenson returned to Islamabad with the temporary one-year passport the Katmandu Consulate had grudgingly issued him.†   (source)
  • The bedroom door suddenly opened as a consulate guard appeared, his hand menacingly under his jacket.†   (source)
  • Just the calls she told him about included priests and official-sounding organizations, and even -- this was chilling -- the Burundian consulate and the Burundian Mission to the United Nations.†   (source)
  • The cabbie often drove this route, doing a brisk business ferrying would-be immigrants from the consulate to the courier company.†   (source)
  • Oscar could have simply said no. The consulate checks for a criminal record but doesn't have the time to dig up the minutiae of every applicant's life.†   (source)
  • But I did think they must have been thrown out of the consulate and that the Chinese government would promise me anything to get me back to China.†   (source)
  • I thought of the years of separation from my parents, of fearing for my life in that small room in the Chinese consulate.†   (source)
  • After all, a highly agitated woman says her husband's missing but she won't go to the police, won't enter the consulate.†   (source)
  • With passport in hand I went to the U.S. consulate in Beijing as soon as I could, and my visa was granted within days.†   (source)
  • The consulate quietly leased a house in Victoria Peak, and a second marine contingent was flown over from Hawaii for guard duty.†   (source)
  • I left the consulate feeling vaguely optimistic, but the waitingover the next few weeks was unbearable.†   (source)
  • The vice president should know the Chinese consulate is holding a Houston Ballet dancer, Li Cunxin, against his will.†   (source)
  • The consulate wanted me to disappear for a few days — the fewer questions the better — and I knew just whom I wanted to go with.†   (source)
  • He hasn't come to the consulate, hasn't even called our head honcho, who wants to get his picture in the papers with him.†   (source)
  • "The consulate is surrounded," he said.†   (source)
  • When we arrived Charles was already there at the consulate gate, and as soon as we entered the big metal door clanged shut behind us.†   (source)
  • The next morning down at the consulate.†   (source)
  • Here in Hong Kong it's the consulate!†   (source)
  • After my release from the consulate my story was flashed all over the TV networks, the newspapers and the radio stations.†   (source)
  • He congratulated me on our marriage, but when I told him that Ben had asked me to go to the Chinese consulate he strongly advised against it.†   (source)
  • I want cameras, telephone taps, electronic surveillance — whatever you can manage — on every single person in that consulate.†   (source)
  • Nelson is working for someone in the Canadian consulate — and whoever it is, is in touch with Webb's wife.'†   (source)
  • Then the State Department called and asked Charles to go back to the consulate and tell them to reconnect their phones.†   (source)
  • The property was leased by the United States Consulate at the direction of the National Security Council.†   (source)
  • There was a considerable amount of resentment among Chinese government officials for what had happened that night at the consulate in April 1981.†   (source)
  • Charles knocked on the door of the consulate, with the U.S. marshal, trying to serve the court orders.†   (source)
  • She had saved the careers of two attaches in her own consulate, as well as those of an American and three British.†   (source)
  • She identified herself as Marie Webb and said that perhaps her husband had come to the consulate looking for her.†   (source)
  • The consulate officials changed their approach and went back to their pleasantries again, offering everyone drinks and engaging in idle conversation.†   (source)
  • Charles returned to the consulate around 4 p. m., and by 5 o'clock he was again in a room by himself talking to Consul Zhang.†   (source)
  • The notorious Ambassador Havilland wouldn't permit it, and the consulate wouldn't touch it without his authorization.'†   (source)
  • There were two conflicting reports, they said, from the consulate in Houston and from the embassy in Washington.†   (source)
  • The Consulate of the People's Republic.†   (source)
  • Do not think of involving the authorities, or your consulate in a reckless attempt to compromise the taipan.†   (source)
  • Then another consulate official replaced him for another half an hour of interrogation and persuasion.†   (source)
  • To begin with, he himself went through a two-day seminar with her four years ago, and he ventured that probably a quarter of the consulate had done the same.†   (source)
  • Would I have come to the consulate if I had a political agenda to hide or if the Americans or the Taiwanese had helped me?†   (source)
  • McAllister and Morris Panov had gone to the undersecretary's office to listen on separate telephones to a mocked-up profile of an American killer created by the consulate for the benefit of the press.†   (source)
  • Is dangerous to meet in consulate?†   (source)
  • It's all written down in my papers back on Victoria Peak, with a copy for Havilland and another set to be delivered to the Chinese consulate in Hong Kong in seventy-two hours.†   (source)
  • Ben accompanied me to the Chinese embassy the next morning because I was too scared to go there by myself, given my last experience at the consulate in Houston.†   (source)
  • Two months later I had just about given up hope altogether when, after a rehearsal one day, I found a message in my pigeonhole at the studios: "Please call Consul Tang at the Chinese consulate."†   (source)
  • Catherine had protected her, taken enormous risks for her both professionally, in terms of not seeking guidance from her consulate, and personally, in confronting acute physical danger.†   (source)
  • It was all the consulate knew.†   (source)
  • It seemed as though the consulate officials were deliberately keeping the conversation going, trying to distract us, while they gradually eliminated my friends from the room.†   (source)
  • We're down at the consulate now.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth's mother had flown to Houston from Florida as soon as she'd heard that her daughter and new son-in-law were locked up at the Chinese consulate.†   (source)
  • To any inquiries, the consulate was to comment only that during the next month numerous representatives of the American government and American industry would be flying into the colony at various undetermined times, and security as well as the efficacy of accommodations warranted the lease.†   (source)
  • They'd planned to interview me that night, but as time dragged on and I was still missing they eventually enlisted the help of some Houston Ballet board members and discovered that I was being held at the consulate against my will.†   (source)
  • Charles then returned to the consulate with a federal marshal to serve both orders, one ordering the consul general to produce me and the other enjoining the consul general from removing me from the country.†   (source)
  • The scant information was so electrifying that all concentration was riveted on the crisis, and Catherine Staples telephoned her consulate telling the High Commissioner that she was not well and would not attend the strategy conference with the Americans that afternoon.†   (source)
  • Everyone else, from the Hong Kong and Kowloon police to the 'specialists' who worked the American consulate gathering information for payment gave Nelson as clean a bill of health as was respectable in the territory.†   (source)
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