How To Use Plenipotentiary In A Sentence
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His best known initiative, the appointment of royal commissioners, intendants, with plenipotentiary powers to inspect and enforce the royal will in the provinces, seems to have emerged as an unplanned pragmatic development.
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From the foregoing correspondence it will be seen that one of Booker Washington's many rôles was to act as a kind of plenipotentiary and interpreter between his people and the dominant race.
Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization
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When the dinner was over, De Segur took me to a window, expressing his uneasiness at what he called the imprudence of Jacquemont, who, he apprehended, from Joseph's silence and manner, would not escape punishment for having indirectly blamed both the restorer of religion and his plenipotentiary.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Nevertheless, he accepted the appointment as minister plenipotentiary to France and on July 5, 1784, departed for Europe where he remained until 1789.
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He was an Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiaryfor all mankind.
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Appointed minister plenipotentiary to Prussia by President Andrew Johnson in 1867, he lived in Berlin for the next seven years.
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A man who was almost unknown in August of last year, and who possesses no independent political biography, has filled the highest state post, with its immeasurable plenipotentiary powers.
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Not that it would upset Alex-my husband, that is, the plenipotentiary-to be hailed as the rightful King when he returns.
Hokas Pokas
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But 79 years later, its plenipotentiary was, courtesy of the New Zealand taxpayer, checking up on how it had all gone.
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As an ambassador plenipotentiary, he represents the diplomatic image of his country.
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Washington's many rôles was to act as a kind of plenipotentiary and interpreter between his people and the dominant race.
Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization
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Sir Henry Pottinger replaced Elliot as plenipotentiary, arriving in China in August 1841.
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The Department of External Affairs in Dublin specified it did not want a Nazi party member as German minister plenipotentiary to Ireland.
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A club owner/manager is plenipotentiary within his domain.
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She became Her Britannic Majesty's new ambassador plenipotentiary to the Republic of Lebanon.
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Standish decided to put a portion of his share of the alms given to us by the celebrated Plenipotentiary Of Meat toward playing the numbers-lottery.
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Hamilton served as British envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the court of Naples starting in 1764.
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He was promoted from minister plenipotentiary to full ambassador.
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El-Orabi served as minister plenipotentiary and deputy chief of mission at the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv from 1994 to 1998.
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To Britain a commission of inquiry, with plenipotentiary power, was despatched under Paul the Notary.
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Ashton acting as self-constituted plenipotentiary on the part of her daughter and husband, and Mother Blenkensop, equally unaccredited, doing me the honour to be my representative.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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The main initial difficulty was to secure from the Emperor the acceptance of Pottinger's demands that the imperial commissioners must have plenipotentiary powers, and that they must negotiate in person.
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The Netherlands' Council of Ministers consists of the Dutch cabinet and two ministers plenipotentiary, one representing Aruba and the other the Netherlands Antilles.
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But at the date of the "Cross Readings" he was mainly what Burke, speaking contemptuously of his status as a plenipotentiary, styled a "_diseur de bons mots_"; and he was for this reason included among those "most distinguished Wits of the Metropolis," who, following Garrick's lead in 1774, diverted themselves at the St. James's Coffee-house by composing the epitaphs on Goldsmith which gave rise to the incomparable gallery entitled _Retaliation_.
De Libris: Prose and Verse
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He was promoted from minister plenipotentiary to full ambassador.
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At the same time, an extraordinary and plenipotentiary agency was formed in the USSR - the State Defense Committee.
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Since Southern rails were scarcely equipped to carry even essential supplies, endowing the quartermaster with this authority often meant giving him plenipotentiary power over most railroad activities.
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It certainly does mean minister, but only a Minister of State, which a minister plenipotentiary is not.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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Given a 20-year sentence for his role as Hitler's all-powerful armaments minister, the former architect turned plenipotentiary probably deserved a death sentence.
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His last diplomatic posting was as ambassador and plenipotentiary in Paris.
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In witness whereof we the undersigned, their ministers plenipotentiary, have in their name and in virtue of our full powers, signed with our hands the present definitive treaty and caused the seals of our arms to be affixed thereto.
Your History Moment: The Treaty of Paris « Third Point of Singularity
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A senior Russian government official recently said Kim would visit Vladivostok and Khabarovsk at the invitation of Konstantin Pulikovsky, Putin's plenipotentiary representative in the Russian Far East.
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They then appointed Alexander as general plenipotentiary in command of the renewed Panhellenic expedition against Persia.
Alexander the Great
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Between 275 and 271, Hieron was elected general, seized power as the result of a military coup, allied himself with the popular faction, and was perhaps elected general plenipotentiary.
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He is a peacekeeping ambassador plenipotentiary designated by the United Union, he has full powers.
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Since Southern rails were scarcely equipped to carry even essential supplies, endowing the quartermaster with this authority often meant giving him plenipotentiary power over most railroad activities.
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The word plenipotentiary is not the right word to describe Dawkins comment that extraterrestrials are a better explanation of the universe than God.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Probably the biggest single change was the introduction of the telegraph in the middle of the 19th century, which meant that ambassadors were no longer truly "plenipotentiary", as they are still formally described, since they were within range of instructions and no longer had the necessity or the authority to stand in place of their sovereigns.
The job of an ambassador
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From right: Minister Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic, Interpreter Wang Qian.
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On 8 September he sent his Chief of Intelligence, Colonel Hentsch, to see what was happening, with plenipotentiary powers to sort matters out.
