How to Use consul general in a Sentence

consul general

noun
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  • The consul general and other staff were on their way to Sri’s apartment.
    — Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Li Xuhang is listed as consul general on the website of the Chinese consulate in Dubai.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli consul general in New York, rejects the term.
    — Joseph Krauss, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • After a long back-and-forth, Alzabarah got on the phone with the consul general shortly after midnight.
    — Bradley Hope, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Her grandfather was the mayor of Bridgetown; her father served as the country’s consul general to the United States.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022
  • Studios even worked with the German consul general in Los Angeles to cut scenes that might offend the Nazis.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 June 2021
  • Itay Milner is deputy consul general of Israel to the Midwest.
    — Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
  • The keynote speaker will be Chris Oldfield, the consul general of Australia.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
  • The family moved to Chicago in 1936, where the elder Mr. Oldenburg served as the Swedish consul general.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The Portuguese consul general from San Francisco tapped away on his phone.
    — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Mohammed al-Otaibi, who served as consul general in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul when the killing occurred, was also cleared, the spokesman said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2019
  • This tiny spot in Chinatown is home to a chef who cooked for the consul general of San Francisco and his food is both refined and accessible.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Israel's consul general in New York resigned in protest.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • For this trip, most of the fee was expected to be paid upon successful arrival in the U.S., the consul general said, based on interviews with the passengers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2021
  • The consul general of Mexico in Dallas, Francisco de la Torre, will be with the mayor throughout his trip.
    — Eric Johnson, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The novelist Peter Quinn was enjoying a 2013 reception in his honor when the event’s host, the consul general of Ireland, pulled him aside.
    — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The body was never found, but Fogel cites Turkish investigators who say it was taken to an oven that had been bought and installed at the consul general’s house and burned.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
  • He was no longer invited to some events because organizers told him that the consul general did not want to attend if Mr. Lee was also present.
    — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 15 July 2023
  • The Times, reminding readers in 1897 that the evidence against Ben Ali was circumstantial, said the French ambassador and the consul general were calling for the man’s release.
    — Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The Thai consul general in Los Angeles inspected the artifacts one month later and asked the museum for their return, but didn’t hear back.
    — Jennifer Lu, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • After becoming consul general in Havana, the elder Mr. Baldwin died and his son, then 5 years old, was shipped off to the first of a series of boarding schools, several of which he was expelled from.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Theo Neilly, consul general for the Bahamas in Washington, said the scale of the destruction is unprecedented.
    — al, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The mayor was among those who called the consul general Ortona to offer condolences upon hearing news of Capaccio’s death.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, consul general of Israel, was one of the first dignitaries to arrive on site and speak to affected families.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • Canadian consul general jobs are also open in Chicago, Atlanta and New York.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2022
  • Also speaking at the livestream event was Israeli government official Aviv Ezra, consul general to the Midwest.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
  • Mayers first served as Barbados consul general for seven months in 1994.
    — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The latest reports indicate that the journalist’s body parts had been found in the garden of Riyadh’s consul general’s home in Istanbul, and that a body double put on Khashoggi’s clothes shortly after he was killed.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Aviv Ezra, Israel’s Midwest consul general, began the torch-lighting.
    — Kathy Routliffe, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The Guatemalan consul general in Del Rio said his office can verify the health and safety of his country's children in the facility but remains concerned that some are being moved and have not been able to speak to relatives.
    — Jamie Hancock, Dallas News, 27 June 2019

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