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  • You need to contact the U.S. Embassy, Mr. Langdon.†   (source)
  • It's fit for an 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)
  • 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)
  • He wrote to the Syrian Embassy in Washington.†   (source)
  • His son, Lenin, had moved to Delhi, where he worked as a services contractor for foreign embassies.†   (source)
  • I had been told to meet a man by the name of Dr. Tamba at the American embassy on Monday morning.†   (source)
  • Today, Merin, you were impressed with what I said to the crowd...the mob...at the embassy.†   (source)
  • That afternoon Father insisted on joining the demonstration outside the British Embassy building.†   (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)
  • Our SIGINT intercepted communication about a plot to launch a mortar attack on the American Embassy.†   (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)
  • The U.S. and other allied embassies were located there, as were Iraqi government buildings.†   (source)
  • You can think of them as—as foreign diplomats, and of this as an embassy, of sorts.†   (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)
  • The Chinese embassy was trying to contact them to give them instructions.†   (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)
  • In August 1998 Islamic fanatics bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 225 people.†   (source)
  • Brown, the wife of an American diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Amman, coached volleyball.†   (source)
  • Gurney, I want you to head a delegation, an embassy if you will, to contact these romantic businessmen.†   (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)
  • I thought about contacting the embassy to help me track you down, but I didn't know where to start.†   (source)
  • It resembles the American embassy compounds that always used to attract antiwar protesters, student demonstrators, flag burners.†   (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)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • This meant that for the first time U.S. embassies abroad had to gather information on trafficking.†   (source)
  • From the palace to the embassies, every VIP with VD came to consult Ghosh.†   (source)
  • Not far from the Russian embassy.†   (source)
  • Sara delivered it herself to the ambassador at the American 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)
  • No one but the Russian embassy staff, because it's what they look for.†   (source)
  • We thought the Soviet embassy might lodge a complaint.†   (source)
  • Pérez said he'd gotten a call that morning from the Barbados embassy.†   (source)
  • Any new inventions, emigration, or interkingdom trade must be submitted, reviewed, and sanctioned by Lord Astaroth's embassy.†   (source)
  • That's Embassy Row.†   (source)
  • He was a civilian with a fake passport, obviously, and with no contact with the embassy.†   (source)
  • As America celebrates Kennedy's inauguration, the defector writes to the U.S. embassy in Moscow.†   (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)
  • Hazel had known already that they would not let him lead the embassy.†   (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)
  • Details were provided by five female embassy secretaries and by seven black Marine guards, who were released soon after the embassy was taken.†   (source)
  • You will ask her about an embassy on Cymorene?†   (source)
  • While we were attending an embassy party she collapsed.†   (source)
  • And embassy protection, that may be the most important.†   (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)
  • For nearly three months, she gave us leads she supposedly learned from a cousin who worked at the embassy.†   (source)
  • Rumors circulate in embassies.†   (source)
  • In 1998, al Qaeda became a household name when his group bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.†   (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)
  • Even with added scrutiny, people line up at our embassies to apply to come here.†   (source)
  • When I commented on her excellent English, she told me that she was married to a Canadian who worked at the embassy.†   (source)
  • The American embassy was overrun, and sixty-six Americans were taken hostage.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • For two years during the thirties, he lived in Wellawatte while working for the Chilean Embassy.†   (source)
  • Mikhail and Eli Lavon uploaded the contents of the four phones from the Israeli Embassy at 8:42 p.m. local time.†   (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 German Democratic Republic has no embassies in the West.†   (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)
  • A close passing look had revealed it 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)
  • In the park on fine afternoons people flew kites, and sometimes Arabs from the embassies played football below the trees.†   (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)
  • The Iranian students took over the U.S. embassy.
    embassy = the building where a foreign ambassador and staff work
  • At a distance he stood and hailed them, asking whether Thorin would now listen to another embassy, since new tidings had come to hand, and matters were changed.   (source)
    embassy = ambassador or representative
  • The QRF was made up of men from the conventional army's 10th Mountain Division, 101st Aviation Regiment, and 25th Aviation Regiment, their base located at the abandoned university and old American Embassy.†   (source)
  • We don't have an American embassy in Kabul.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Five Chinese officials from the embassy in Washington were on their way to the competition.†   (source)
  • And he was supposed to report to the embassy in an hour—report what?†   (source)
  • Had a chip on their shoulder ever since they took our embassy hostage in '79.†   (source)
  • And the embassy contacted DCPJ Cryptography?†   (source)
  • Next stop was the American embassy, where he was issued a visa within a couple of hours.†   (source)
  • Staffers were burning documents in the embassy yard.†   (source)
  • I received quite an education about politics, as an embassy wife.†   (source)
  • "I can get him into an embassy," Alba said.†   (source)
  • I'll see you at the embassy, Mr. Langdon.†   (source)
  • In addition, they assisted with military base and embassy security.†   (source)
  • You have a doctor at the embassy, don't you?†   (source)
  • When I got out, the guards at the embassy door, speaking Krio, asked me for my passport.†   (source)
  • Would you have time to come to the embassy tomorrow, for tea in the morning?" he asked.†   (source)
  • And I did, too, in a whole slew of forms, so we could collect the money from the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • More burning flags outside embassies, ransacking American stores.†   (source)
  • As I walked to the embassy, I listened to the gradual wakening of the city.†   (source)
  • Petchkin calls their embassy every hour.†   (source)
  • In all likelihood the embassy will evacuate from Léopoldville.†   (source)
  • "The U.S. Embassy?" he demanded, sounding suspicious.†   (source)
  • The White House Pelt was on the phone to the Soviet embassy at three in the morning.†   (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)
  • I sent our man at the embassy over to the Pont-Royal, asking for Simon.†   (source)
  • —There's a party at the embassy tonight.†   (source)
  • On May Day, Elias Bram had obliterated the embassy and fired a shot heard around the world.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Mostly, she mentions the redhaired gringo at the embassy.†   (source)
  • A woman received him at the embassy, a middle-aged woman.†   (source)
  • The Soviet connection was made in the Montaigne, so we have to assume the embassy's being watched.†   (source)
  • She'd bought the set of twelve books from a staffer at the British Embassy who was returning home.†   (source)
  • He followed up the embassy attacks by bombing the USS Cole in Aden harbor in 2000.†   (source)
  • Just please let us stay here tonight and I will go to the embassy the first thing in the morning.†   (source)
  • Our out-posted "Embassy Row" thinks very highly of you, and they should.†   (source)
  • Once outside, Max ran from the embassy as though the Furies themselves pursued him.†   (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)
  • They know I have no choice but to call the embassy, get the protection of the Canadian government.†   (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)
  • What better place to wait for him than in the embassy?†   (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)
  • Lord Vyndra was visiting his embassy before his departure, replied Ms.†   (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)
  • You should have called Sergei at the embassy.†   (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)
  • They'll work it out with embassy obfuscation and read it to us before issuing it.'†   (source)
  • From the embassy Gabriel headed to the safe house for a few hours of badly needed sleep.†   (source)
  • It was the reason I told the embassy to use my name in the press release.†   (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)
  • But the embassy flags will be seen by everyone!†   (source)
  • Born in Miami, now working for the Ethiopian embassy.†   (source)
  • He gazed across the quad and solemnly contemplated the demonic embassy.†   (source)
  • The Italian embassy's flag was at half-mast.†   (source)
  • She got an outside line, then dialed the number of the Canadian Embassy on the avenue Montaigne.†   (source)
  • In Khartoum, I waited a month for asylum from the American Embassy.†   (source)
  • He's with the Italian embassy; that's his wife.†   (source)
  • The conversation was over; the embassy man would call back after hearing from Bourne.†   (source)
  • But for a while, there was a pathologist at the American Embassy clinic in Beirut.†   (source)
  • The Jeep pulls up to the embassy and a barrel-chested man steps out.†   (source)
  • There is no Canadian embassy in Hong Kong, but there is a consulate.†   (source)
  • I now began to see Helen at the embassy regularly, either on a Tuesday or Wednesday.†   (source)
  • "I bid you welcome to our embassy," he said, bowing low.†   (source)
  • In Paris, a man was killed at the embassy, a man who tried to help them both!†   (source)
  • Cooper stared grimly at the embassy and the piled trunks and boxes that littered its fenced grounds.†   (source)
  • Matron got the British and Indian embassies to promise to send their envoys in the morning.†   (source)
  • Why didn't they just tell me to come right over to the embassy?†   (source)
  • "We are going to the embassy," I said, able to breathe more easily now that we were on our way.†   (source)
  • It's why you wanted an ostentatious limousine from our embassy.†   (source)
  • He knew that the embassy was trying to reach me, but he did not know that I knew it.†   (source)
  • The man did the pathology for all the American embassies in East and West Africa.†   (source)
  • With an appalling crash, the embassy and all within it were cast down into the sea.†   (source)
  • He's standing over my shoulder and we're calling from the Soviet embassy in Paris.†   (source)
  • Embassies and consulates constantly sought favours from one another.†   (source)
  • And I could rely on him; he was as knowledgeable as any attache in the embassy.†   (source)
  • He brought us to the Soviet embassy and I talked to your brother on one of their lines.†   (source)
  • By all appearances, the demons' embassy was open for business.†   (source)
  • You didn't alert friendly embassies — consulates?†   (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)
  • Beyond you, there's no point in involving the embassy.†   (source)
  • And half a dozen embassies from Teheran to Beirut, why shouldn't they?†   (source)
  • You always seem to know everything, so I assume you know about the embassy outside.†   (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)
  • I knew that the embassy had contacted him about me, but he did not know that I knew.†   (source)
  • These are decoded telephone conversations that took place four hours ago at our embassy in Paris.†   (source)
  • Would he know someone at the embassy here?†   (source)
  • Soon you will be able to get a passport from the embassy and get home.†   (source)
  • The well-dressed man and wife from the Italian embassy were nowhere in sight.†   (source)
  • Well, I don't want to go to the embassy," Ellen said.†   (source)
  • He had made the fifth telephone call, five hours after having reached the embassy.†   (source)
  • "No," she said, and added, "You should not have brought the embassy people here."†   (source)
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