Stylistic Peculiarities of Diplomatic Documents

Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Straw in the Stink
Further pressure was piled on Jack Straw last night over the “rendition” of Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhadj after sensitive documents were handed to Scotland tard detectives. ... Mr Murray is understood to have told police that during Mr Straw's time at the FCO diplomats were told to only refer to the policy on torture verbally. ...... These are some remarks she made in a magazine called The Stylist. ..... I see the word “defence” features heavily in that demand.craig22 April 2012 03:00http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

From: "A.K. Eyma" <ayma@tip.nl> To: "Ancient Egyptian Language ...
If instead Dr. Meeks were to convert his document into a database of some sort (even a simple text file in a regular format such as CSV), then he would have unlimited options. .... I suppose you don't need all of those features to encode texts. ..... My original academic background is in medieval Scandinavian studies, and not even all the Latin-based characters one would need to produce a regular diplomatic edition of many manuscripts are yet available or standardized in Unicode (not ...unknown23 June 2008 10:10http://www.rostau.org.uk/AEgyptian-L/

BBC - Gavin Hewitt's Europe: What the cables tell us about Europe
To the contrary, it is only flattering for European officials and diplomats to have the clarity to see what really happens with Afghanistan, for example, and not to be blinded by vague perceptions of political gains that will never materialize. ..... "The latest leaked documents show that in January this year, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apparently signed a confidential cable saying allies in Nato had agreed to expand the contingency plan to defend Poland, to include ...Gavin Hewitt (the Reporters)06 December 2010 06:52http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/gavinhewitt/

Balfour Declaration & Imperialism | William Mathew
In the latest edition of his A History of the Middle East (2003), Peter Mansfield refers to an `apparently unsensational document` that `planted the seeds of a conflict which has lasted almost a century and is unlikely to be resolved before ... The approach will be to analyse, as systematically as the subject-matter will allow, and with heavy reliance on direct quotation rather than authorial paraphrase (stylistically questionable, perhaps, but a fair guarantee of accurate ...BillMathew08 July 2011 05:29http://www.william-mathew.co.uk/

Dimsum - A wish for 2009 – Ethnic Chinese MPs in the next Parliament
Chinese Britons are also benefiting indirectly but no less significantly through the various diplomatic missions of the Chinese Embassy such as cultural exchanges, trade missions and attendance as guests and observers at party political conferences. ..... By serious, I mean a persona without a catch - no, we don't want the former Teletubby, the funny bumbling fool, the gay "stylist" - we just want people who are perfectly ordinary, without the damn stereotypes. Until we ...unknown04 January 2009 12:27http://www.dimsum.co.uk/forum/viewpoints/topic-104-2.html