Sublime Porte
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"It Ill Becomes�" President Harding's foreign policy, often the target of political tongues, has seldom been more vigorously excoriated than it was by Henry Morgenthau, former United States Ambassador to the Sublime Porte.
From Time Magazine Archive
Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Sublime Porte accepted the amendment by a declaration of what it understood to be its intent and significance, which interpretation our Government, in turn, would not accept.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.
At the Sublime Porte, however, no respect was paid to this high dignitary.
From Told in the Coffee House Turkish Tales by Adler, Cyrus
Our representative at Cairo, John Cardwell, had the title of consul-general and diplomatic agent, and had to receive his exequatur from the Sublime Porte.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.
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