How to Use high commissioner in a Sentence

high commissioner

noun
  • Tuesday’s visit was part of a larger tour of the region for the high commissioner.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The visit is not without risk for the high commissioner’s reputation.
    — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The high commissioner’s office was supposed to produce the list in 2017.
    — Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • In 2001, he was named the United Nations high commissioner for refugees.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • That’s when John Doble, a British high commissioner to Swaziland, wandered into the park.
    — Jessica Flint, Outside Online, 7 May 2018
  • Sierra Leone’s deputy high commissioner was taken at gunpoint on the highway in 2016 and held for five days before he was let go.
    — Sam Olukoya, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner was taken at gunpoint on the highway in 2016 and held for five days before he was let go.
    — CBS News, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Chinese diplomats in Geneva sought to discredit the report as lacking support in the high commissioner’s office.
    — Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • That British official was Herbert Samuel, the high commissioner for Palestine.
    — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2023
  • In 1956 he was named high commissioner to Australia, where his father had been born and where his family had extensive interests.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • In 1956, he was named high commissioner to Australia, where his father had been born and where his family had extensive interests.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
  • The cause of the explosion in Poni province was not yet known, Poni's high commissioner Antoine Douamba told state television.
    — Reuters and Cnn, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Already, as many as 1 million people have been forced to flee Ukraine, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees said late Wednesday.
    — NBC News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Laura Clarke, the British high commissioner to New Zealand, met with local iwi, or tribes, in two separate ceremonies.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, noted both the Taliban's vows and the fear of those now under their rule.
    — USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The agency’s top office—the high commissioner for human rights—is vacant after the latest incumbent, Michelle Bachelet, stepped down at the end of Wednesday.
    — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Louis Le Franc, the high commissioner for New Caledonia, called on both loyalist and pro-independence citizens to heed the call for calm.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 15 May 2024
  • In 1947 India became an independent country and Menon its first high commissioner to Britain.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The report was delivered hours before the end of a four-year term by the agency’s high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, and emerged despite strong objection by Beijing.
    — Chun Han Wong and James T. Areddy, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • That is a sign that checks and balances have been chiseled away, leaving state authorities unaccountable, said Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the high commissioner.
    — Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • Advertisement Elsewhere, the United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has condemned the boat strikes.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations said Friday her mission in Ukraine has uncovered growing evidence of war crimes, and has verified the killings of at least 2,345 civilians.
    — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The annual event is traditionally the palace's largest, welcoming over 1,000 guests, including ambassadors, high commissioners and government officials.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • Brodin may have the chance, as the Swedish government announced him as its candidate to become the new United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) last Monday.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Hundreds have been arrested in countries across the Gulf region, according to the United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights, some on allegations of expressing sympathies for Iran’s attacks and for posting images of Iranian bombardments to social media.
    — Jane Lytvynenko, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026

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