Dignitary in a sentence as a noun

To that, the foreign dignitary replied "Then, why don't you use a thousand workers with spoons instead of a hundred with shovels?

The foreign dignitary commented that, with adequate machinery, a single worker could create the canal in a couple hours.

They do dignitary protection and counter-narcotics, so I would assume they have at least some intelligence function.

La migra raids the meatpacking plant only when the illegals threaten to organize or when the owner fell out of favour with a local dignitary.

>"It is however acceptable to **** 20 enemy combatants to rescue a dignitary from a besieged embassy.

He has continued and increased Obama's assassination programs in the middle east, even assassinating a high foreign dignitary on another country's soil.

I believe that the intended context was that the dignitary was a member of the same organization/country as the people trying to rescue him/her, while the enemy combatants would be from a group opposed to that country.

Rewind 9 or 11 months earlier and the exact same anchor was cheerfully reporting a public ceremony in which a visiting Olympic dignitary was presented with a gift from the organizing committee formed to win the bid.

Abusing this power against the very citizens who are supposed to be the source of it is much graver crime than disrespecting a foreign dignitary to whom you owe nothing, it strikes right at the heart of the whole concept of democratic society.

Yes, I think we've all seen articles where a dignitary drives the Honda FCX concept car, or other fuel cell vehicle up to a lone hydrogen pump, promised as the 'first of many'.Meanwhile, a thousand engineers pray that it doesn't pick that moment succumb to metal fatigue and explode.

When there is this dignitary empowered to act on collective behalf, it's only comforting to find out that he holds enough self-control to act cool and rational, that he is competent enough to deal with whatever social play, including the basic instinct attempts, without compromising whatever public business he's out to solve.

Dignitary definitions

noun

an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

See also: high-up panjandrum