plenipotentiary
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Speer was given a 20-year prison sentence while Fritz Sauckel, Hitler’s general plenipotentiary for labor mobilization, was hanged for almost exactly the same crimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
"We have not identified any information that we are dealing with sabotage," Stanislaw Zaryn, the Polish government's plenipotentiary for information security, told the Polsat News broadcaster.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023
According to Marcin Horala, the Polish government's plenipotentiary responsible for overseeing the hub's construction, it is one of the most important projects underway in central and eastern Europe for military and civilian use.
From Reuters ● Nov. 21, 2022
The agency’s plenipotentiary conference, which takes place every four years, began on Monday in Bucharest, Romania.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
M. Waddington was the first plenipotentiary of France to the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
In his biography, Will to Power, Ronan Fanning accused de Valera of failing to explain his strategy properly to the plenipotentiaries before the talks began.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
They were appointed as "plenipotentiaries" and yet were instructed not take any final decisions without their cabinet's permission.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
The US President, Woodrow Wilson, briefly raised the question of women’s political representation with his fellow plenipotentiaries, but few wished to see women’s rights recognized as a legitimate matter for international agreement.
From Time ● Apr. 2, 2015
From burrows outside the Iron Curtain and baronies inside, Red plenipotentiaries rushed to the Kremlin by plane and train for the emergency ingathering of the clan.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the direct representatives and plenipotentiaries of the vicegerent of God the legates carried and exercised the supreme authority of the Holy See into the remotest corners of Christendom.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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