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 third and final point of the plan would grant the region its own prime minister, who would be “a legitimate and plenipotentiary representative of ARD in talks with international structures.”

From Slate • Mar. 16, 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 Waddington, Mary King