'The South American ambassadors are still persona grata.

Mme de Staël was not a persona grata at court, but she seems to have played the part of ambassadress fairly well.

I have just harried a man to his death and you expect me to be persona grata with his daughters?'

Even Rex knows I'm persona grata here, and you wouldn't say he was bursting with intelligence, would you?

Did I know that Mrs. Stratton was not persona grata or whatever you call it in this house?

He's persona grata with Fidel Castro.

It was to be supposed that, however welcome the wild birds were, no owl would be persona grata in a loft where pigeons bred.

This lady was a much poorer actress, but was a /persona grata/ with Monsieur Hostein.

All of a sudden, the other partners carried out an overnight coup and faced Dr Williams with the situation where he was no longer persona grata.

Beside not having three horns and a spiked tail, this Space Viking was definitely persona grata with the Royal Family.

'There is a rumour that the President has told Señor Pineda's government that he is no longer persona grata.

Haig's diary states that Painleve had told Lloyd George Wilson was no longer persona grata with the French government.

After protracted negotiations as to his being accepted as persona grata by the Allies, Gounaris arrived in London on March 9.

I hadn't been formally briefed in London but Croder had said that Monck was persona grata and would give me any help I needed.

'You mean,' said Warren, 'that unless I mend my ways I shall no longer be persona grata at the Embassy.'

The chairman of Sony led the Japanese conquest of American consumer electronics, but here, where as a property owner he is a taxpayer, he was persona grata.

Patrick realised that this was SOCO's way of recognising that he was persona grata and was going to allow him to enter the murder room.

He then went on a diplomatic mission to St Petersburg, where he was 'persona grata', and gained Russia's acquiescence to Prussia's domination of north Germany.

"Persona Grata" is reminiscent of "some of the rock epics of the Seventies" - a big, melodic and fully orchestrated song, showcasing Armatrading's vocals.

Told her, throwing in details, that Proctor was persona grata on board the motor-yacht Contessa and was involved in Senator Mathieson Judd's campaign for the presidency.

"Norman never was persona grata with all members of the Scottish Rugby Union because he wrote what he felt and had the ear of some very influential people in the game.

And now, persona grata there himself, he visited on Rome, Paris and other European capitals all those grotesque eccentricities of personal conduct for which he had grown famous, or infamous, elsewhere.

Dury, who says he has problems getting past the RSC doormen, but is 'persona grata in the Dirty Duck', is the only man I have ever heard glottal-stop a dead language.

Distrusting his own powers of persuasion, he enlisted the good offices of Barbier, the late partner of the Rue des Marais printing-house, who was a /persona grata/ with the novelist.

In spite of the active part he had taken in driving Austria from Italy, he was a persona grata in Vienna, and his policy was steadily directed to an alliance between the two powers.