Translation for "been ambassador" to spanish
Been ambassador
Translation examples
“None of you have been ambassadors for a long time,” I said.
—Ninguno de vosotros ha sido Embajador mucho tiempo —continué—.
Long ago he had been Ambassador to somewhere small, but the appointment had not endured.
Hacía ya mucho tiempo había sido embajador en un pequeño país, pero duró poco en el cargo.
Miss Haworth, an Englishwoman, had spent three happy years in Moscow where her father had been Ambassador;
La señorita Haworth, inglesa, había pasado tres años felices en Moscú, donde su padre había sido embajador;
She mentioned that her “great-granddaddy-in-law” had been Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s just to let them know they were dealing with a woman of quality.
Mencionó que su «suegrecito» había sido embajador en la corte de Saint James, más que nada para que se enterasen de que estaban tratando con una mujer de auténtica talla y calidad.
Her family had the contacts to do it, starting with one of her father’s old friends who had been ambassador to Argentina and who offered himself to make the gesture before the military junta.
Su familia tenía los contactos para hacerlo, empezando por un viejo amigo de su padre que había sido embajador en Argentina y que dijo estar dispuesto a hacer la gestión ante la Junta Militar.
When Lawrence Eagleburger left the State Department in 1984, having been ambassador to Yugoslavia, he became simultaneously a partner of Kissinger Associates, a director of a wholly owned banking subsidiary of the Ljubljanska Banka, a bank then owned by the Belgrade regime, and the American representative of the Yugo mini-car.
Cuando Lawrence Eagleburger dejó en 1984 el Departamento de Estado, tras haber sido embajador en Yugoslavia, se convirtió simultáneamente en socio de Kissinger Associates, en director de una filial bancaria del Ljubljanska Banka, banco del que entonces era propietario el régimen de Belgrado, y en representante norteamericano del minicar Yugo.
So as his family intended him for a diplomatic career - his father had been ambassador in Berlin and Petersburg - they begged me to have him here for a while, so that he might at least learn the rudiments of the business: his mother, God bless her, had been given to understand that in Mahometan countries neither wine nor spirits were allowed, nor even beer.
Su familia deseaba que emprendiera la carrera diplomática, puesto que su padre había sido embajador en Berlín y Petersburgo, y me rogaron que lo tuviera aquí un tiempo, para que al menos aprendiera los rudimentos del negocio. Su madre, que Dios la bendiga, tenía la certeza de que en los países mahometanos no se permiten ni el vino ni los licores, ni siquiera la cerveza.
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