Examples of emissary

• The ecclesiastical princes are driven to join in part by self-interest, and in part by the secret papal emissaries.

• He hand-picks emissaries who cannot be expected to systematize or even articulate his teachings adequately after he is gone.

• The emissary who alerted his brothers to a threat to their custom deserved two to six years in irons.

• Proselytizers were ' emissaries of grace ', not workmen of the papal or the royal supremacy (p. 201).

• The first was a trans-denominational character whereby its emissaries had intense interactions with other churches.

• Buissart sent an emissary to persuade him, and to arrange for printing.

• Djonteu, still in the maquis, did not participate in the reconciliation ceremony at feuveuck, but he sent emissaries to attend and give him an account of what had transpired.

• That would also protect those emissaries of the state who have the grizzly task of reopening cases that have been closed until then.