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  • It's fit for an embassy.†   (source)
  • Each day a young man from the American Embassy came to visit them, to ask if they needed anything, and to explain that Washington was doing everything it could to hasten their departure.†   (source)
  • I had been told to meet a man by the name of Dr. Tamba at the American embassy on Monday morning.†   (source)
  • Then he told me about American visas, how he'd have to prove to suspicious Embassy officials that I was legally married to him and that he had enough dollars to support me, and of course the foreign exchange was tricky because the arrangements with Devinder Vadhera would have to be hush-hush, illegal, sleazy, unfortunately necessary, just like the black-money bookkeeping for Mr. Jagtiani.†   (source)
  • Embassy.†   (source)
  • Cotter was persistent, however, and thanks to his efforts the American Embassy persuaded the Nepalese army to attempt a helicopter rescue in the Cum.†   (source)
  • When I commented on her excellent English, she told me that she was married to a Canadian who worked at the embassy.†   (source)
  • When the dance was over we all piled into the limo Mr. Hakim Baba sent to pick up Tina and Dave (the news vans had all left by then, since the story about the bombing had broken; I suppose they went to go stake out the Iranian embassy).†   (source)
  • The U.S. and other allied embassies were located there, as were Iraqi government buildings.†   (source)
  • After they've crossed the Kwango River by ferryboat, the Prime Minister rises from the backseat, stretches his long, narrow frame, and joins his wife, Pauline, and small son, Roland, in a car belonging to the Guinean embassy.†   (source)
  • Today, Merin, you were impressed with what I said to the crowd… the mob… at the embassy.†   (source)
  • In August 1998 Islamic fanatics bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 225 people.†   (source)
  • He wrote to the Syrian Embassy in Washington.†   (source)
  • It resembles the American embassy compounds that always used to attract antiwar protesters, student demonstrators, flag burners.†   (source)
  • His son, Lenin, had moved to Delhi, where he worked as a services contractor for foreign embassies.†   (source)
  • You can think of them as—as foreign diplomats, and of this as an embassy, of sorts.†   (source)
  • That afternoon Father insisted on joining the demonstration outside the British Embassy building.†   (source)
  • Gurney, I want you to head a delegation, an embassy if you will, to contact these romantic businessmen.†   (source)
  • Why, the embassies were surrounded these days, and all the recent refugees had been intercepted and put in prison where most of them had disappeared forever.†   (source)
  • Pérez said he'd gotten a call that morning from the Barbados embassy.†   (source)
  • You arrange preemptive visits of state, such as that with Blodhgarmvodhr, and do not trouble to alert me of his arrival, nor wait for me to join you so we might greet his embassy together as equals.†   (source)
  • He had paid for Yves' hotel room, they had visited the American embassy and the French authorities, he had left Yves some money— what else? what else?†   (source)
  • Not far from the Russian embassy.†   (source)
  • On October 29, we again entered the Palace of Justice; again the crowds were large and excited; again the security was extremely tight; again the court was filled with dignitaries from many foreign embassies.†   (source)
  • Brown, the wife of an American diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Amman, coached volleyball.†   (source)
  • I thought about contacting the embassy to help me track you down, but I didn't know where to start.†   (source)
  • Hazel had known already that they would not let him lead the embassy.†   (source)
  • Sara delivered it herself to the ambassador at the American Embassy.†   (source)
  • It had taken five for the film to reach the American embassy in Moscow, where it was delivered at once to the station chief.†   (source)
  • We thought the Soviet embassy might lodge a complaint.†   (source)
  • This meant that for the first time U.S. embassies abroad had to gather information on trafficking.†   (source)
  • In addition, they assisted with military base and embassy security.†   (source)
  • On November 4, 1979, just after the evening news announced that five hundred militants had seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Janice and Larry sat down at their dinner table to discuss their own crisis: Larry's work as an electrician had dried up—he'd collected his final paycheck—and their savings would last little more than a month.†   (source)
  • The Chinese embassy was trying to contact them to give them instructions.†   (source)
  • Details were provided by five female embassy secretaries and by seven black Marine guards, who were released soon after the embassy was taken.†   (source)
  • The American embassy was overrun, and sixty-six Americans were taken hostage.†   (source)
  • He had had a varied career, from Japanese military schools to service in embassies in Canada and Washington to command of combat troops in China and Manchuria.†   (source)
  • "That's Embassy Row."†   (source)
  • I ordered a set of hand-painted English china worthy of an embassy, a full set of glassware, four chests stuffed with decorations, linen sheets and tablecloths, and a whole collection of classical and popular records with their own modern Victrola.†   (source)
  • No one but the Russian embassy staff, because it's what they look for.†   (source)
  • From the palace to the embassies, every VIP with VD came to consult Ghosh.†   (source)
  • While we were attending an embassy party she collapsed.†   (source)
  • I sent our man at the embassy over to the Pont-Royal, asking for Simon.†   (source)
  • He was a civilian with a fake passport, obviously, and with no contact with the embassy.†   (source)
  • In May, Adams took up residence and put out a flag at the United States House, as he called it, the first American embassy anywhere in the world.†   (source)
  • He followed up the embassy attacks by bombing the USS Cole in Aden harbor in 2000.†   (source)
  • You will ask her about an embassy on Cymorene?†   (source)
  • On May Day, Elias Bram had obliterated the embassy and fired a shot heard around the world.†   (source)
  • As America celebrates Kennedy's inauguration, the defector writes to the U.S. embassy in Moscow.†   (source)
  • Rumors circulate in embassies.†   (source)
  • For nearly three months, she gave us leads she supposedly learned from a cousin who worked at the embassy.†   (source)
  • For two years during the thirties, he lived in Wellawatte while working for the Chilean Embassy.†   (source)
  • Even with added scrutiny, people line up at our embassies to apply to come here.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Ochoa-Perez, an exquisite embassy wife, was very former, I knew, because Jack hadn't been on outside assignment in several years at least.†   (source)
  • The lights of palaces and embassies are unlike lights anywhere else, and they sparkle as if someone had learned how to capture winter stars.†   (source)
  • Take me to the embassy.†   (source)
  • As it states here, initial inquiries at the United States embassy, Tehran, failed to produce verification that you travel under official auspices, either military or political.†   (source)
  • …to be a Stromberg Carlson, which she assumed to be Swedish until Bronek—a simple-seeming but canny fellow Polish prisoner who worked as a handyman in the Commandant's house and was a chief purveyor of gossip and information—told her it was an American machine, captured from some rich man's joint or foreign embassy to the west and transported here to take its place amid the mountainous tonnage of booty assembled with frenzied mania for pelf from all the plundered habitations of Europe.†   (source)
  • And thereupon the middle door of the Black Gate was thrown open with a great clang, and out of it there came an embassy from the Dark Tower.†   (source)
  • In the park on fine afternoons people flew kites, and sometimes Arabs from the embassies played football below the trees.†   (source)
  • The German Democratic Republic has no embassies in the West.†   (source)
  • She had come to Moscow for her exit visa and was now on her way to her embassy to collect it, fanning herself as she went along with her documents, which were done up in a bundle and tied with a ribbon.†   (source)
  • All countersigned indents and requisitions are costed here and are presented to the Naval Attaché at your embassy in Canberra, and forwarded by him to Washington for eventual settlement.†   (source)
  • The Iranian students took over the U.S. embassy.
    embassy = the building where a foreign ambassador and staff work
  • This neo-Gothic masterpiece stood at the north end of Embassy Row.†   (source)
  • He had arranged for me to come to the Colombian embassy.†   (source)
  • "Sierra Leone consulate, ahh, embassy," I told the driver.†   (source)
  • We don't have an American embassy in Kabul.†   (source)
  • Had a chip on their shoulder ever since they took our embassy hostage in '79.†   (source)
  • And the embassy contacted DCPJ Cryptography?†   (source)
  • Staffers were burning documents in the embassy yard.†   (source)
  • I received quite an education about politics, as an embassy wife.†   (source)
  • I'll see you at the embassy, Mr. Langdon.†   (source)
  • When I got out, the guards at the embassy door, speaking Krio, asked me for my passport.†   (source)
  • And I did, too, in a whole slew of forms, so we could collect the money from the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • As I walked to the embassy, I listened to the gradual wakening of the city.†   (source)
  • In all likelihood the embassy will evacuate from Léopoldville.†   (source)
  • "The U.S. Embassy?" he demanded, sounding suspicious.†   (source)
  • Your embassy has no jurisdiction except on their own property.†   (source)
  • "I will do that," Sophie said, speaking hurriedly, "but after you're safely inside the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • I'll show you once we're safely inside the embassy.†   (source)
  • The embassy was less than a mile away now.†   (source)
  • I can explain the situation and have the embassy send someone to meet us somewhere.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Embassy in Paris is a compact complex on Avenue Gabriel, just north of the Champs-Elysées.†   (source)
  • And the embassy invariably did just that.†   (source)
  • I take it the embassy is off-limits this evening?†   (source)
  • Bezu Fache despised many things… but few drew more wrath than the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • Langdon suddenly didn't want anything to do with the embassy.†   (source)
  • The embassy was only about a mile away, and Langdon settled into his seat.†   (source)
  • The embassy has an automated message system.†   (source)
  • I need to get Langdon to the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • —There's a party at the embassy tonight.†   (source)
  • We start brainstorming what to do: we can drive to Embassy Beach and go skinny-dipping.†   (source)
  • According to our documents, he's at the embassy in Madrid.†   (source)
  • And embassy protection, that may be the most important.†   (source)
  • But the classification priority is so high it's above embassy, even ambassadorial level.†   (source)
  • We were an embassy, I said, come from another warren to ask for Efrafa's goodwill and help.†   (source)
  • Go over to the embassy and explain exactly what happened.†   (source)
  • Second was Isabelle, the daughter of a second secretary in the French embassy.†   (source)
  • Five Chinese officials from the embassy in Washington were on their way to the competition.†   (source)
  • Mostly, she mentions the redhaired gringo at the embassy.†   (source)
  • A woman received him at the embassy, a middle-aged woman.†   (source)
  • And he was supposed to report to the embassy in an hour—report what?†   (source)
  • Cooper stared grimly at the embassy and the piled trunks and boxes that littered its fenced grounds.†   (source)
  • The well-dressed man and wife from the Italian embassy were nowhere in sight.†   (source)
  • She'd bought the set of twelve books from a staffer at the British Embassy who was returning home.†   (source)
  • Our SIGINT intercepted communication about a plot to launch a mortar attack on the American Embassy.†   (source)
  • Just please let us stay here tonight and I will go to the embassy the first thing in the morning.†   (source)
  • "A child was never more weary of a whistle than I am of embassies.†   (source)
  • After leaving Langley, he headed to the Israeli Embassy in far Northwest Washington.†   (source)
  • The royal messenger pouch we had from your embassy in Eddis.†   (source)
  • In October 1985 Björck moved to the Swedish Embassy in Washington for two years.†   (source)
  • Thus Oswald is taking the bus to Mexico City in order to visit the Cuban embassy there.†   (source)
  • Our out-posted "Embassy Row" thinks very highly of you, and they should.†   (source)
  • We don't even have to surrender the gae bolga or suffer another embassy on our lands.†   (source)
  • By the time they reach the embassy, hundreds of people are pushing their way through the gate.†   (source)
  • —And then there are the embassy parties, he said.†   (source)
  • "I can get him into an embassy," Alba said.†   (source)
  • He'd photograph them for me, and I'd pass them on to the Chinese embassy.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey carries a promissory note from the U.S. embassy for $435.†   (source)
  • Embassy business, the voice snaps, "Please call Don Vic to the phone."†   (source)
  • We leave the car in an alley and walk the rest of the way to the Peruvian embassy.†   (source)
  • They'll work it out with embassy obfuscation and read it to us before issuing it.'†   (source)
  • "You have a doctor at the embassy, don't you?"†   (source)
  • In respect to this, the embassy in the Palazzo Venezia (apart from Lia) was hopeless.†   (source)
  • Alan knew he shouldn't mention the party at the embassy, but he wanted badly to tell Yousef.†   (source)
  • "I bid you welcome to our embassy," he said, bowing low.†   (source)
  • Would you have time to come to the embassy tomorrow, for tea in the morning?" he asked.†   (source)
  • The blind at the embassy is the First Secretary.†   (source)
  • These are decoded telephone conversations that took place four hours ago at our embassy in Paris.†   (source)
  • Jean walked with him to the American embassy downtown.†   (source)
  • Hog-tie him and march him right into the U.S. embassy and plop him down on the bargainin' table.†   (source)
  • Dr. Cooper from the American Embassy is coming to learn.†   (source)
  • If we could only make it to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, I knew we could arrange for new passports.†   (source)
  • It's only widespread within this embassy.†   (source)
  • From the embassy Gabriel headed to the safe house for a few hours of badly needed sleep.†   (source)
  • And there are lots of ways a specific vehicle could get quickly inside an embassy's gate.†   (source)
  • Petchkin calls their embassy every hour.†   (source)
  • She ushered Mahtob and me into the office of her boss, a Mr. Vincop, the vice-consul of the embassy.†   (source)
  • A cocktail reception at the French Embassy.†   (source)
  • He had listened to it in mountain huts, and danced to it in embassies.†   (source)
  • A crowd is milling outside the embassy gates, but no one dares to enter.†   (source)
  • "A man at the Soviet embassy in Paris," replied Casset calmly.†   (source)
  • You come to parties at embassies like everyone else.†   (source)
  • Born in Miami, now working for the Ethiopian embassy.†   (source)
  • It was the reason I told the embassy to use my name in the press release.†   (source)
  • The Italian embassy's flag was at half-mast.†   (source)
  • By all appearances, the demons' embassy was open for business.†   (source)
  • In Khartoum, I waited a month for asylum from the American Embassy.†   (source)
  • It's why you wanted an ostentatious limousine from our embassy.†   (source)
  • But for a while, there was a pathologist at the American Embassy clinic in Beirut.†   (source)
  • There is no Canadian embassy in Hong Kong, but there is a consulate.†   (source)
  • The Jeep pulls up to the embassy and a barrel-chested man steps out.†   (source)
  • With an appalling crash, the embassy and all within it were cast down into the sea.†   (source)
  • The White House Pelt was on the phone to the Soviet embassy at three in the morning.†   (source)
  • "What will that accomplish?" asked the embassy man.†   (source)
  • I now began to see Helen at the embassy regularly, either on a Tuesday or Wednesday.†   (source)
  • Matron got the British and Indian embassies to promise to send their envoys in the morning.†   (source)
  • He gazed across the quad and solemnly contemplated the demonic embassy.†   (source)
  • In Paris, a man was killed at the embassy, a man who tried to help them both!†   (source)
  • Seven seconds after she reached the embassy switchboard, Dennis Corbelier was on the line.†   (source)
  • "We are going to the embassy," I said, able to breathe more easily now that we were on our way.†   (source)
  • He's with the Italian embassy; that's his wife.†   (source)
  • He knew that the embassy was trying to reach me, but he did not know that I knew it.†   (source)
  • Lord Vyndra was visiting his embassy before his departure, replied Ms.†   (source)
  • The man did the pathology for all the American embassies in East and West Africa.†   (source)
  • Embassies and consulates constantly sought favours from one another.†   (source)
  • The Soviet connection was made in the Montaigne, so we have to assume the embassy's being watched.†   (source)
  • She got an outside line, then dialed the number of the Canadian Embassy on the avenue Montaigne.†   (source)
  • You didn't alert friendly embassies — consulates?†   (source)
  • You should have called Sergei at the embassy.†   (source)
  • Once outside, Max ran from the embassy as though the Furies themselves pursued him.†   (source)
  • Why didn't they just tell me to come right over to the embassy?†   (source)
  • Then they'd make the rounds of the embassies and the royals.†   (source)
  • Then we took a taxi to the Embassy of the United States of America.†   (source)
  • … You will go to the Vietnamese Embassy and ask for an attache named Phan Loc.†   (source)
  • It's now an adjunct to the Soviet embassy.†   (source)
  • You always seem to know everything, so I assume you know about the embassy outside.†   (source)
  • And half a dozen embassies from Teheran to Beirut, why shouldn't they?†   (source)
  • I knew that the embassy had contacted him about me, but he did not know that I knew.†   (source)
  • If you're from the embassy and they want you to know, they'll call and tell you, won't they?†   (source)
  • The Zurich police fully expect me to get in touch with the Canadian Embassy now-†   (source)
  • Soon you will be able to get a passport from the embassy and get home.†   (source)
  • He's standing over my shoulder and we're calling from the Soviet embassy in Paris.†   (source)
  • If he had been told to come to the embassy, he would have bolted.†   (source)
  • Well, I don't want to go to the embassy," Ellen said.†   (source)
  • "No," she said, and added, "You should not have brought the embassy people here."†   (source)
  • But the embassy flags will be seen by everyone!†   (source)
  • Say D.C. wants him to keep out of sight and away from the embassy; every route is being watched.†   (source)
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