nuncio

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Recent Examples of nuncio Nunn’s daughter, Krista Bruckner, wrote in February to the Vatican’s U.S. nuncio or ambassador, Cardinal Christophe Pierre. Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024 Ukraine has passed messages and lists of names to the papal nuncio in Kyiv, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, who forwards them via the Holy See to the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, according to a Ukrainian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023 Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March. Megan Janetsky, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023 In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Russell as apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan, and gave him that same year the title of archbishop. Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for nuncio
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Noun
  • Russia's Tass news agency earlier said the dead included at least two children, citing the country's consul in Hurghada.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Rubinstein, the band’s media manager, called contacts in Thailand and learned that the Russian consul in Phuket was likely behind their detention.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Russia has not permitted U.S. diplomats to visit Hubbard in detention and has refused to say where he is being held, according to the State Department and his family.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The Kennedy Family's Ties to U.S. Politics The Kennedy family has long been entwined with American political history, producing a lineage of lawmakers, diplomats, and public servants spanning multiple generations.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.
    Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • After four of Adams’ top deputies decided to resign, Gov. Kathy Hochul pondered taking the unprecedented step of ousting a New York City mayor.
    Jennifer Peltz and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • And the European Parliament gives the same amount of money for each deputy to do their jobs through the hiring of a parliamentary aide.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The rule, which tables the proxy voting for new parents push, was adopted 213-211 mostly along party lines.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Johnson, who considers proxy voting to be unconstitutional, said any further floor action was halted and sent members home.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.
    Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The Franciscan Plano Carpini, who traveled the empire as papal legate in 1246, described a draconian tax collector demanding one in three boys from every Russian family, as well as unmarried women.
    Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021

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