1.   And foreign governments feel slighted when they have no U.S. ambassador to talk to.

2.   As a protest over its human rights record, Washington has no ambassador in Myanmar and has vetoed aid through the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

3.   He does not have ambassadors who can be declared persona non grata.

4.   It has ambassadors.

5.   Jordan, the other Arab nation with which Israel has made peace, does not have an ambassador in Israel now, either.

6.   Many key countries with which we have sensitive strategic relations have no ambassador, including France, Germany and Japan.

7.   Neither country has an ambassador in residence, and diplomatic relations between the two capitals have effectively been downgraded.

8.   Of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations, only two have American ambassadors in place at the moment, Italy and Britain.

9.   The Bush administration does not yet have ambassadors in place in either country.

10.   The Clintons could not have had better ambassadors.