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Description: As an emissary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she had traveled to rural Alabama to meet with Recy Taylor, a young woman who had been sexually assaulted by six white men. It would be difficult enough to convince an Alabama court that even one of these men was guilty, but Rosa was undeterred.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.

Terry Glavin

On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.

Canadian Author

Susan Vreeland

Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

American Author

Seth Shostak

Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.

American Scientist

Antony Blinken

President John F. Kennedy demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when he sent emissaries to America's allies in October 1962 to secure support for the quarantine of Cuba.

American Statesman

Roscoe Conkling

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.

American Politician

James Lankford

Al Qaeda likes to coordinate, have a central command to be able to send out emissaries around that they have highly trained and say, 'This is the moment we're going to do a large-scale attack.

Margot Kidder

I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.

American Actress

Hazel Scott

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

American Musician

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Irish Poet

Emissaries are often involved in diplomacy; they may help to resolve conflicts or establish alliances.

Diplomatic Missions

An emissary often carries secret or sensitive information, acting discreetly to avoid public attention.

Confidential Role

The term 'emissary' has historical roots, think of them like messengers in ancient or medieval times.

Historical Use

 As an emissary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she had traveled to rural Alabama to meet with Recy Taylor, a young woman who had been sexually assaulted by six white men. It would be difficult enough to convince an Alabama court that even one of these men was guilty, but Rosa was undeterred.

The hidden life of Rosa...

 Today’s the big day. You’re an intelligent creature of matter amidst a chaotic crowd of alien races. Every hundred million years, sentient species of the galaxy send emissaries to the core to pay tribute to the galactic seed you’re all descended from.

Can you solve the Big...

 and as the legend goes, in 987, the Rus prince Vladamir I decided it was time to abandon Slavic paganism, and sent emissaries to explore neighboring faiths. Put off by Islam's prohibition on alcohol and Judaism's expulsion from its holy land,

Where did Russia come...

 And the answer came to me with a sudden clarity. It was like, of course, he was the writing life that I had longed for since I was four years old. He was an emissary from the beautiful world. And just like that, the obsession fell away,

The Hidden Power of Sad...

 and I have been privileged enough to work on three of them. So, I am a spacecraft engineer, a spacecraft operations engineer, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles, California. And these rovers are our robotic emissaries.

What time is it on Mars?...

 in their communities. They were the people that you would take a gamble on. You'd say, I'm gong to sell my rings, because I have the chance to send you off to a better future. They were the emissaries of hope.

Noy Thrupkaew: Human...

 that had routed the army. But news of this victory traveled unreliably. Merchants and emissaries filled gaps in the story with epic poems and Biblical fragments. By the time the story reached Europe,

The imaginary king who...

 this is the method of science so powerful that it is carried our robotic emissaries to the edge of the solar system and beyond it has doubled our lifespan made the lost world to the past

Science's Rough, Endless...

 as young as 11 and to populate his armies he freed slaves a full half century before Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation now although he sent emissaries to seek

The impact of Simón...

 to king leonidas and leonidas rejected the proposal and the emissary said this is madness and leonidas said madness this sparta and then he kicked the emissary into a

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