envoy betydelse and definition

Exempel på envoy

• Performances on a grand scale were arranged for the envoys.

• The three envoys should then prepare to speak accurately without differing from one another, and it is best to reply in the most plausible manner.

• The memorial was prepared as the envoys were being selected for the mission.

• Even the reception of foreign envoys, however, was the occasion for processions and feasting on a grand scale.

• Rosas, however, refused to negotiate and rejected the envoys' proposals outright.

• These envoys were used as actors in the theatre of state, their letters being seen as a kind of tribute to local royalty and therefore to be treated with reverence.

• The envoys retorted that this was inadequate.

• The opening of audiences for plaintiffs and petitioners had consequences for the manner in which consuls and envoys could try to distinguish themselves as the political representatives of their ruler.