1.   He took an appointment as US trade ambassador in Geneva.

2.   Mobuto spoke briefly to the Zimbalan ambassador in Swahili then beckoned the tall bodyguard towards him.

3.   The visit, albeit unofficial, had provoked expressions of concern from the Chinese ambassador in Moscow.

4.   In March of the following year her ambassador in Paris publicly apologised and promised that in future she would recognise French claims to precedence.

5.   It is significant that in the mid-century the French government paid its minister in Washington less than a seventh of the salary of its ambassador in London.

6.   Both Nelidov, the Russian ambassador in Paris, and Kokovtsev, the minister of finance, thought they did not.

7.   At the end of the Crimean War he had convinced Alexander that if peace were to last Russia needed a major figure as her ambassador in Paris.

8.   British opportunities to pass on their views were enhanced when Sir David Ormsby-Gore became the British ambassador in Washington.

9.   Worse -- as David Bruce, the US ambassador in London, asserted -- the British were temperamentally predisposed to compromise, even at the expense of principle.

10.   The British ambassador in Washington was consulted on a number of occasions by Kennedy, and sat in on top-level sessions of the US National Security Council.