legation|legations in English

noun

[le·ga·tion || lɪ'geɪʃn]

envoy, delegation; office of a delegate; position of delegate

Use "legation|legations" in a sentence

1. Yikuang even wrote letters to foreigners, inviting them to take shelter in the Zongli Yamen during the Siege of the International Legations, when Zaiyi's men besieged the Beijing Legation Quarter.

2. In May 1863, the US legation in Edo was torched.

3. 13 The newly established Legations protested and the introduction of the fast-growing eucalyptus obviated the necessity.

4. 22 Later we tried to aid those trapped Legation Quarters, to reason with Chinese of responsibility.

5. Synonyms for Consulship include consulate, mission, legation, embassy, deputation, delegation, ministry, consular office, capitoulate and government office

6. At one stage the station, not far from the foreign legations, was connected to them by a tram line.

7. The last remaining American legations, in the Warsaw Pact countries of Bulgaria and Hungary, were upgraded to embassies in 1966.

8. Attaché definition, a diplomatic official Attached to an embassy or legation, especially in a technical capacity: a commercial attaché; a cultural attaché

9. In 1897, after the incident when Emperor Gojong took refuge in the Russian legation, he returned to this place and named it Gyeongungung again.

10. The agreed formula among the three governments was that Subhas would travel across Russia on an Italian diplomatic passport impersonating an officer of the Italian Legation in Kabul , Orlando Mazzotta .

11. Commercial attaché definition is - an officer in the foreign commerce service of a country who is Attached to an embassy or legation in those countries considered important for trade or business.

12. As a military man, MacDonald led the defence of the foreign legations in 1900 which were under siege during the Boxer Rebellion, and he worked well with the Anglophile Japanese Colonel Shiba Goro.

13. Under the terms of the Boxer Protocol of 7 September 1901, China had granted nations with legations in Beijing the right to station guards at twelve specific points along railways connecting Beijing with Tianjin.

14. Carr, former Assistant Secretary of State and Chief of the Consular Bureau, was Minister to Czechoslovakia when German forces occupied Prague on March 15, 1939, Carr closed the Legation on March 21, and departed on April 6.

15. Cisalpine Republic (sĭsăl`pīn), Italian state created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797 by uniting the Transpadane and Cispadane republics, which he had established (1796) N and S of the Po River.The new republic included the former duchies of Milan, Parma, and Modena, the legations of Bologna and Ferrara, and the Romagna.

16. Acknowledgments of deeds conveying or encumbering real estate situated in this state, or any interest therein and other instruments in writing, required to be acknowledged, may be taken in any foreign country before any minister, plenipotentiary, secretary of legation, charge d'affaires, consul general, consul, vice consul, consular agent, or commercial agent appointed by the United States

17. He became Auscultator in the district court of Paderborn in 1841, referendar at Münster and Erfurt in 1844, and goverment assessor in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy In 1836 he became an Auscultator at Berlin; in 1837 he was a referendar in the court at Aachen, in 1840 secretary of legation at London and Dresden, in