Persona grata Sentence Examples

He thus became a persona grata with the party in power; he was already a colonel of dragoons, and in 1792 he was given a command in the army of the North.

The maharaja was passionately fond of sport, and his shooting parties were celebrated, while he himself became a persona grata in English society.

Tostis pamphlet was known to represent papal ideas, and Tosti himself was persona grata to the Italian government.

He was a man of exemplary life and a friend of Erasmus and the humanists, besides being a persona grata at the court of Louise of Savoy and Francis I.

His position in Italy was similar to that of Bishop Dupanloup in France; and, as but a moderate supporter of the policy enunciated in the Syllabus, he was not altogether persona grata to Pius IX.

Lord Palmerston had never been persona grata at court.

The oligarchy composed of the great landowners have always been an important factor in the political life of the republic; when President Balmaceda found that he was not a persona grata to this circle he determined to endeavour to govern without their support, and to bring into the administration a set of men who had no traditions and with whom his personality would be all-powerful.

He was therefore not at all persona grata in Berlin, but the German imperial authorities learned by experience that he was an opponent to be respected, who understood thoroughly the interests of his country, and was quite capable of adopting if necessary a vigorous policy of reprisals.

In England (1838) his omnivorous reading in literature, history and jurisprudence made him persona grata to leaders of thought.