Do you really wonder,' he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut, 'why we won't claim compensation?

Past events have been poorly attended - Chinese are often reluctant to be seen at embassy functions.

Not that all embassy functions have become demode.

He escorted a very pretty young woman, one of the assistants in his office, to an Italian embassy function, then to a Smithsonian exhibit.

She had every right to accompany Blake, every right to stand at his side at an embassy function or any other.

Sir George finally appears in person, but only briefly, at an embassy function in Black As He's Painted (1974).

A guest at the embassy function, the shrewd-faced adventurer was avoiding the limelight.

Menzone had left early to attend the embassy function.

The same night, he said, he saw the participants at an embassy function.

In addition to its use as a residence for the U.S. ambassador and his family, the house is opened from time-to-time for official embassy functions.