How To Use Foreign office In A Sentence
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The Colonial Office was absorbed into the Foreign Office.
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The foreign office budget has been halved since 2010, with embassies closed or downsized.
Times, Sunday Times
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A leading opponent of the war in Afghanistan took on Foreign Office minister Peter Hain in a debate in Brighton last week.
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The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the onset of the Second World War, the young diplomat was seconded from the Foreign Office to Number 10 Downing Street.
Democracy vs. Hypocrisy
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A Foreign Office minister said that the export of bio materials had not broken international rules.
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Then an official of the Foreign Office lunched my editor and told him my report was ‘not helpful’.
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In January, Liberal Democrat MP Malcolm Bruce urged Foreign Office ministers to back Gregory's plea against her sentence.
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But Churchill's enthusiasm for a summit meeting was not yet fully shared by the Foreign Office and cabinet colleagues.
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He joined the foreign policy unit in the Politburo in 1971, and became Secretary of State in the Foreign Office in 1985.
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U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague today urged the government to release Mousavi and Karrubi, according to an e- mailed statement from the Foreign Office in London.
Iran Says Opposition Is 'Internal Affair,' rejects criticism
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Here are two tiny quotations from it (no, I cannot resist it, since you ask): Jim Hacker: "Apparently, the White House thinks that the Foreign Office is full of pinkoes and traitors.
UN diplomacy stalls (again)
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The Foreign Office was warned of a plot to depose the leader of an oil-rich country weeks before the coup attempt happened.
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The German minister was murdered on his way to the foreign office on 20 June, and that afternoon the legations were attacked.
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He took a year's sabbatical from the Foreign Office.
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The plan received backing from the Foreign Office minister, who said there is already an Executive presence in the Paris embassy and he hopes the practice can spread.
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But she has remained suspicious of departmental lines which resist changes, and her doubts about the Foreign Office have remained.
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A Foreign Office spokesman said: The flight from Cairo to Gatwick is to supplement commercial flights already being provided by British airlines.
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The special envoys of the King of the Belgians, invited to a lunch at the Foreign Office, were carried there in a large, flat-bottomed boat poled by a couple of watermen.
The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
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Foreign Office papers showed they were egging on the Libyans and the Scots like a procuress in some ghastly 16th century painting, trying to drag a poor innocent girl into a young buck's bed.
Sir Gus O'Donnell pleases all parties on Lockerbie bomber | Simon Hoggart's sketch
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Please also write to Bill Rammell MP, the Foreign Office minister responsible for relations with Colombia.
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The handling of the crisis is being led by the Foreign Office.
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The surprising and illuminating thing to Westerling was the inspired statement to the press from the Gray Foreign Office, adroitly appealing to Gray chauvinism and justifying the "intrepidity" of the Gray commander in response to so-called "pin-pricking" exasperations.
The Last Shot
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Foreign Office sources sniffed at reports that British troops might be sent.
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As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.
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Late last night, the French ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office to discuss the crisis.
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Foreign office minister Lady Symons said there would be ‘very vigorous discussions’ with the US about securing a fair trial.
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The German chancellery and foreign office also welcomed similar comments made just a few days ago by the head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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In an effort to dampen down suggestions that Straw had been utterly humiliated, his closest allies insisted yesterday that he had been making it known for some time that he was ready for a switch from the Foreign Office.
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In London, the Foreign Office says the idea of Britain in NAFTA is "barmy," as it would have to pull out of the EU entirely.
Continental Drift?
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A Foreign Office spokeswoman said Mr Long drowned after getting into difficulties in the rough water, where there are strong undercurrents.
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A crisis has arisen in the Foreign Office.
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Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience.
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After the outbreak of the First World War, he served successively in the Foreign Office's western, war, and contraband departments.
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Last week, Baroness Symons, a Foreign Office minister, announced that Ambassador Craig Murray would go back to Tashkent.
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The magnificent snuffbox in Plate V, ordered by the Foreign Office in 1821 for presentation to the South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar, did not make its way back to Ludgate Hill.
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Foreign Office official Sir William Ehrman said that a report suggested that such weapons may have been "disassembled", while another report suggested Iraq might also lack warheads capable of spreading chemical agents.
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A crisis has arisen in the Foreign Office.
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On the face of it, it is a little undiplomatic for a Foreign Office Minister to suggest that the British have a monopoly on rational and civilised behaviour.
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At the beginning of 1987 we learned via the Foreign Office that Kiev was being proposed.
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Details of what it takes to be a latter-day Bond have been included on the website alongside other Foreign Office careers.
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Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience.
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The Foreign Office had a contract with the prison to launder diplomatic bags.
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This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novi Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe:
Gravity's Rainbow
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Usually diplomatic services and foreign offices in this respect merely reflected the societies they served.
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Dr. Stucki, the head of the Swiss delegation, was a hard bargainer whose attitude contrasted sharply with the more conciliatory posture adopted by the Swiss Foreign Office in Bern.
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Foreign Office officials assisted with transport and finance problems.
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Until the present Foreign Office was built in the 1860s, the department was housed in decrepit buildings in Downing Street.
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He took a year's sabbatical from the Foreign Office.
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A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: ‘The consul visited the baby today and he is very well.’
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Many of those people will be backpackers, which is a concern for the Foreign Office.
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Foreign Resident correspondent who needs to cover leader of Beijing can put forward a application with interview syllabuses to Beijing Foreign Office which will help the arrangements accordingly.
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The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can't post about Novi Pazar without quoting one of my favorite bits from Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novi Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe:
Languagehat.com: "BOSNIAN" IN NOVI PAZAR.
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The Foreign Office said: "We deplore any use of excessive force and urge the Guinean authorities to exercise restraint and ensure the safety and security of its people.
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The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The third party was a mandarin at the Foreign Office,’ Mr Lee recalled, sitting in a high-backed armchair in his flat off Bootham.
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At the beginning of 1987 we learned via the Foreign Office that Kiev was being proposed.
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Generations of very clever Foreign Office eminences have devoted their meagre resources to just one futile aim - punching above our weight on the world stage.
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He presumably bought into it with his Foreign Office gratuity.
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A British Foreign Office minister has made a robust defence of the agreement.
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The Colonial Office was absorbed into the Foreign Office.
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It was provided to the Foreign Office by the secretary to the World Jewish Council, who in turn had received it from a source in Berlin.
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In 1949 George Orwell warned the Foreign Office not to trust 38 people if what it wanted was anti-communist propagandists.
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Were he posted somewhere out-of-the-way, to a backwater, he might already be seriously considering a transfer to the Foreign Office.
THE LAST RAVEN
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It is hard to think of people more demure in rhetorical comportment than senior envoys of the UN or the British Foreign Office.
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The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December.
Times, Sunday Times
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He returned to the Foreign Office as minister for Europe.
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While everyone's attention has been focused on the election results, the Foreign Office has been quietly kicking the UK consul in Romania.
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Blair passed over his best chance to subdue his friend and rival by moving him to the Foreign Office in the wake of the last election landslide.
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I've just come from the Foreign Office, and you're immediately on a new assignment.
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The development of organised diplomatic archives and of foreign office libraries is perhaps best seen in Britain.
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The Foreign Office says this will make the plan self-financing, and taxpayers may save nearly £500,000 $800,000 during the current session of Parliament.
Overheard: Sale Britannia
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Open House London Close to St. James Park is the normally off-limits Victorian-era Foreign Office and Indian Office complex, whose highlight—the dazzling Italy-meets-India Durbar Court—is a three-story riot of Doric and Ionic columns capped by a magnificently frescoed vaulted ceiling.
Open House
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The Foreign Office official Sir William Ehrman told the inquiry that a report suggested such weapons may have been "disassembled".
New Statesman
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It is hard to think of people more demure in rhetorical comportment than senior envoys of the United Nations or of the British foreign office.
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The Foreign Office is no place for a politician of progressive ideas and as a progressive he never made the most of his comparatively short time as Leader of the House.
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Close to St. James Park is the normally off-limits Victorian-era Foreign Office and Indian Office complex, whose highlight—the dazzling Italy-meets-India Durbar Court—is a three-story riot of Doric and Ionic columns capped by a magnificently frescoed vaulted ceiling. openhouselondon.org.uk
Come in, We're Open
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Foreign Office officials assisted with transport and finance problems.
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Seemingly on his way out when he was shifted from the Foreign Office at the last reshuffle, this shrewd operator may have identified a swift route back to the heart of the government.
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But Foreign Office ministers admitted yesterday that there was little point in the short term in campaigning hard on the euro.
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A crisis has arisen in the Foreign Office.
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Sipping a glass of sherry in the lounge of his elegantly appointed Westminster apartment, the gentleman appears the epitome of a retired Foreign Office mandarin.
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Foreign Office minister Lord Triesman will represent the government at the ceremony in Khao Lak.
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Late last night, the French ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office to discuss the crisis.
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Even the military aircraft carrying a four-star U.S. general officer and entourage of high-level foreign officers was grounded in a Far East country.
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Hurd, a former career diplomat and Foreign Office Minister of State, was the obvious choice as his successor.
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The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December.
Times, Sunday Times
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A senior Foreign Office official revealed on Wednesday that it had received reports just days before the invasion that Saddam Hussein may not be able to use chemical weapons as they had been "disassembled".
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It is for this reason that the defensive alliance finally emerges as five compact little "groups" of demands, with the vital things directly affecting Chinese sovereignty labelled desiderata, so that Japanese ambassadors abroad could leave very warm assurances at every Foreign Office that there was nothing in what Japan desired which in any way conflicted with the Treaty rights of the
The Fight for the Republic in China
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Ben Bradshaw (an ‘out’ Labour MP) was, until earlier this year, a junior minister at the Foreign Office.
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The British Foreign Office has appointed a controversial Israeli government adviser to one of its most sensitive posts as head of the legal department.
Monday, March 06, 2006
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A British Foreign Office minister has made a robust defence of the agreement.
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A spokesman for the Foreign Office said it was thought his death was from natural causes and an autopsy would be carried out.
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The Foreign Office said they were offering full assistance to the man and his employers.
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Lawyers acting for Mau Mau veterans say they will serve notice on the Foreign Office of an intent to seek compensation for human rights abuses for a group of about 10 Kenyans, seen as a test case.
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April 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is examining various options, including the appointment of an arbitrator by the World Bank, against India's diversion of the Jhelum river to the Wullar Barrage and what it terms the faulty design of the Kishanganga hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir, the foreign office said Thursday.
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The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it does in a curious way confirm what the Foreign Office minister Brian Wilson was saying on the eve of this conference, that there is a danger devolution could be making Scotland rather more insular and introverted.
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But she has remained suspicious of departmental lines which resist changes, and her doubts about the Foreign Office have remained.
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As fifty years later, the Foreign Office and armed services were among the most strongly affected.
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In 1987, Mullin himself became a notably thoughtful Labour MP and served for a while as a minister at the Foreign Office.
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A British Foreign Office minister has made a robust defence of the agreement.
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Since then, the Foreign Office in particular has worried that staying out of integrationist projects is a pannier tactic than it is a strategy.
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The Foreign Office held that garrisoning the islands would be too provocative.
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Late last night, the French ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office to discuss the crisis.
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A U-turn only came about when the Evening Advertiser contacted a local MP, who fired a letter off to the Foreign Office.
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The "reputedly pleasure-loving" French president, as a Foreign Office profile explained, was "not a doctrinaire socialist" but "has few personal friends and is not much inclined to share confidences".
Gems from National Archives unearthed after the 30-year rule
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The charge followed a fact-finding mission to the capital Sofia by Sir John Ramsden, head of the Foreign Office central and north-west Europe department.
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In the meantime, Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office.
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While he was untangling his messy Italian operation in June, he paid a visit to Jumbo Wilson, the supreme commander for the Mediterranean theater, and cajoled the amiable British general into agreeing that, despite the objections of Churchill and his Foreign Office, there was really no harm in the OSS sending an intelligence team to Mihailović, particularly if it helped hunt for Allied pilots shot down over Chetnik territory.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Peter Hain is the foreign office minister given instructions from Prime Minister Tony Blair to bang the drum a bit, even if it involves him going slightly off-message.
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Late last night, the French ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office to discuss the crisis.
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The British Foreign Office was advising travellers to avoid the country while it dogged with marauding gangs of bandits.
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But Churchill's enthusiasm for a summit meeting was not yet fully shared by the Foreign Office and cabinet colleagues.
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Such thinking was influential in the Foreign Office until at least 1948, and was strongly encouraged by Ernest Bevin as foreign secretary.
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And Douglas will retire soon, I think, so we can have new blood at the foreign office.
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While foreign office travel advisories are not binding, they often render insurance void if travellers disregard them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience.
