At the time Jay was a journalist with little diplomatic experience.

At the end of China ’ s bloody civil war, in the early and mid 1900s, the country quickly closed off its borders to many outside countries and only maintained diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union.

At the political level, diplomatic affairs and international relations of Paraguay are officially handled by the Ministry of Foreign Relations, which answers to the executive branch of the government.

At that meeting, the two signed a secret diplomatic memorandum now called the Taft – Katsura Agreement.

At the request of Lummox, the recently married John and Betty accompany her back to her people as members of the human diplomatic mission.

At the same time, he used his diplomatic skills to maintain the necessary unity between the Genovese, Venetian and the Greek troops.

At first, Hitler rebuffed Soviet diplomatic hints that Stalin desired a treaty, but in early August 1939, Hitler authorised Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to begin serious negotiations.

At the age of eleven he was already asked to play for ensembles, and later — during his diplomatic travels — his lute playing was in demand ; he was asked to play at the Danish Court and for James I of England, although they were not known for their musical abilities.

At the same time, however, Epaminondas managed through a series of diplomatic efforts to dismantle the Peloponnesian league: the remaining members of the league finally abandoned Sparta ( in 365 Corinth, Epidaurus, and Phlius made peace with Thebes and Argos ), and Messenia remained independent and firmly loyal to Thebes.

At the same time, the diplomatic relationship with Egypt went cold, the Egyptians fearing the growing power of the Hittites and Assyrians.

At the time however, the anti-Vatican resentment, combined with Italian diplomatic moves to isolate the Vatican in light of the unresolved Roman Question, contributed to the exclusion of the Vatican from the Paris Peace conference of 1919 ( although it was also part of a historical pattern of political and diplomatic marginalization of the papacy after the loss of the papal states ).

At least 17 diplomatic missions were specifically sent from Japan to the Tang court between the years 603 and 839.

* At the United Nations US Secretary of State Colin Powell presents the US government's case against the Saddam Hussein government of Iraq, as part of the diplomatic side of the U. S. plan to invade Iraq.

At the same time, he was commissioned to publish the diplomatic acts relating to the War of the Spanish Succession for the Collection des documents inédits.

At the same time, he used his diplomatic skills to maintain the necessary unity between the Genovese, Venetian, and Byzantine troops.

At Ratisbon in 1684 France had been in a position to impose its will on Europe ; however, after 1685 its dominant military and diplomatic position began to deteriorate.

At the same time he has performed diplomatic duties, presenting a moderating face for PLO policies.

At the time of his accession to the throne, Portugal was again in diplomatic conflict with the Catholic Church.

At that time the Popes, supported by the Anjous, increased their diplomatic and political activity in the area, by using the Latin bishops, including the archbishop of Durrës.

At the same time, his government made a last effort to arrive at a diplomatic solution of their differences with the United States.

At the time there were diplomatic contacts with the Ottoman Empire to initiate reforms in Macedonia and in Thrace, which at the time were under the control of the Ottoman Empire, for improving the living conditions of the Christian populations.

At the close of the campaign he was employed in civil and diplomatic business.

At the urging of Lord Shaftesbury, Britain established a consulate in Jerusalem in 1838, the first diplomatic appointment to Palestine.

At a ceremony in the reception room of Mayor Richardson Dilworth, the Eagles were honored for winning the championship.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

At the reception, Charles finds himself seated at a table with several ex-girlfriends who relate embarrassing stories about his inability to be discreet, and afterwards bumps into Henrietta ( known among Charles ' friends as " Duckface "), with whom he had a difficult relationship.

At the beginning of February, Grammer and Walsh booked the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel for their wedding, at a cost of more than $ 100, 000 for the reception, despite rumors of Grammer's divorce not being finalized.

" At Maecenas ' reception room "

At the wedding reception held at the local VFW bar, the guys get drunk, dance, sing and have a good time, but then notice a soldier in a US Army's Special Forces uniform.

At their wedding reception, the other " freaks " resolve that they will accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a " normal " outsider, and hold an initiation ceremony, wherein they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, " We accept her!

At the ninth symphony's premiere at Carnegie Hall ( December 16, 1893 ) the reception was one of perpetual cheering.

At a reception, Glick meets Laurette, Harrington's daughter ; he immediately and genuinely falls in love with this " golden girl ," discarding his girlfriend.

At 9: 45am at the Embassy reception desk, Grynszpan said that he was a German resident and that he wanted to see an Embassy official-he did not ask for anyone by name ( an important point in the light of later events ).

At the last show of the tour, as the group considers venturing into a musical theatre production on the theme of Jack the Ripper entitled ' Saucy Jack ', Tufnel reappears and informs them that while their American reception is poor, the group is wildly popular in Japan.

At the end of her visit, she wrote to the Duke and commented on how enjoyable her visit was, commenting on the " beautiful " castle and the friendliness of her reception.

At a concert held in Litomyšl's Philosophical Academy he played a piano arrangement of Auber's overture to La muette de Portici, to a rapturous reception.

At its Covent Garden premiere in 1977 it received a mixed reception.

At a reception given in the monarch's honor, the Tsar asked Rubinstein if he was pleased with this gift.

At most angles the loop has a fairly flat reception pattern, but when it is aligned perpendicular to the station the signal in one side cancels the signal in the other, producing a sharp drop in reception known as the " null ".

At a reception at Heathrow Airport when asked what he wanted to do first, he replied " I want Mandi " which shocked the reception party because they did not know that " Mandi " means " take a bath " in Malay.

At Moscow's Olympic Stadium the band played ten consecutive nights to a total of 180, 000 people ( following a reception that Bernie Shaw remembered as being " something like Beatlemania ") which was represented in the international press as not just an achievement for Uriah Heep but a major breakthrough for Western music in general.

At St. Petersburg he met with a more cordial reception from Catherine II, and in 1787 he was permitted to return to France, though not to Paris.

" At least part of the negative academic reception to Sexual Personae can be attributed to Paglia's ignoring such prominent structuralist / post-structuralist thinkers as Althusser, Derrida, Foucault and Lacan, knowledge of whom had become de rigueur in the academic humanities by the book's 1990 publication.

At the reception, the newly married couple dances while Stifler dances with Cadence.

At the ' 95 Source Awards, the Death Row roster's performance garnered a poor reception from the mainly east coast audience ; Knight also made comments pertaining to Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Puff Daddy, sparking friction between the two labels ( and, later, the two entire coasts ).