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Ramphal

British  
/ ˌræmˈfɑːl /

noun

  1. Sir Shridath Surendranath , known as Sunni . born 1928, Guyanese diplomat and Commonwealth Secretary-General (1975–90)

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An appliances shop in Ramphal Chowk, a middle-class neighborhood in the New Delhi suburb of Dwarka, Electronics Desire is struggling through its weakest sales in months.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

“I watched the building go up,” said Philip Ramphal, who arrived at the casino at 6 a.m from his home on Liberty Avenue, not far away.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

Mr. Ramphal was not a gambler, he said, but wanted to see the facility that he believed would “break or make” the community in the coming years.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

At a three-hour meeting Tuesday night with Nkomo and Mugabe, Ramphal and the guerrilla chiefs examined each line of the deadlocked cease-fire proposals until a reasonable formula was found.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was cobbled together in a brilliant, behind-the-scenes piece of diplomacy by Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal and a group of British Foreign Office aides.

From Time Magazine Archive

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