1.   An extraordinary ambassador of particularly high standing, or one whom it was desired to honour markedly, could be given very valuable jewels and other luxury goods.

2.   At the UN ambassadors of the five permanent members of the Security Council, including Britain, were to meet to discuss the crisis.

3.   Our industrial staff are always on site and automatically have to become the ambassadors of the company and procure sales leads.

4.   Among the residences hit was one belonging to the ambassador of Spain, whose country is the home of NATO secretary general Javier Solana.

5.   And no one ever talked smack about him then, not the ambassador of Arizona.

6.   And, indeed, the ambassadors of several nations and representatives of historic preservation groups have been appealing, futilely so far, for a meeting with Taliban officials.

7.   Be our ambassadors of good will.

8.   Being an ambassador of Arizona and the Super Bowl.

9.   A feud with the US ambassador of Austria, cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, led to his transfer to Washington.

10.   A few years later, the ambassador of Papua-New Guinea plowed his car into four others on Wisconsin Avenue here.