The President resolves basic foreign policy issues and can confer military and diplomatic ranks, appoint diplomats without legislative approval, and issue decrees subject to the legislature's right to later overturn a decree by legislative action.

By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties, the Congress acted as the de facto national government of what became the United States.

In other words, the King was authorised (upon the formal advice of the Irish government) to appoint diplomats and consuls and to be involved in the formalities of making treaties.

And Mr. Inhofe cited recent comments by Faith Ryan Whittlesey, a Republican and former United States Ambassador to Switzerland, that the Administration was appointing diplomats with personal agendas.

These expulsions of the lawfully appointed Chinese diplomats in Washington were a "clear breach" of the international code of diplomacy.

The office of prime minister, in turn, was given additional powers to appoint senior civil servants and diplomats, in consultation with the king's ministerial council.

A council of ministers, also known as cabinet ministers, aids the Prime Minister, and appoints and dismisses diplomats.

Presidents appoint their Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, diplomats and others to help them carry out their agenda.

Therefore, he tried to appoint diplomats who shared his views as ministers plenipotentiary in the signatory countries.

The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation described his appointment as "another demoralising blow to trained career diplomats", as it suggested a tendency to appoint politicians rather than professional diplomats to head diplomatic missions.