1.  He joined the diplomatic service and was posted to Ankara.

2.  The entrance tests for people wishing to enter the diplomatic service are particularly rigorous.

3.  The potential high flyers of the diplomatic service usually join as administrative trainees.

4.  There is a shortage of suitable recruits in the diplomatic service, which offers varied experience abroad and a good career structure.

5.  This compromise, taking into account an initiative from diplomatic service personnel, would merely require ambassadors to freeze any political party membership while in office.

6.  Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged.

7.  The mechanism could still be operated satisfactorily by diplomatic services which were small and content to remain so.

8.  When the First World War broke out diplomatic services were still markedly concentrated in Europe and still thought predominantly in terms of European problems and rivalries.

9.  The Italian foreign ministry and diplomatic service remained among the most overstaffed and inefficient in Europe.

10.  Aristocratic influences were at their height during the first half of the nineteenth century and in any diplomatic service were always most marked at the highest levels.