Below you will find example sentences with "michael kovrig". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Michael Kovrig in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 17
- Discovered as a combination around: michael
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 17
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 11 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "michael kovrig" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as ex diplomat michael kovrig and businessman, canadian hostages michael kovrig and michael, spavor, china and two stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with michael spavor, michael jordan, michael jackson, michael spavor, michael jackson and michael cohen, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with michael kovrig
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Beijing detained Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig from late 2018 until fall 2021. (15 words)
China retaliated by detaining a consultant named Michael Spavor and a former diplomat named Michael Kovrig. (16 words)
China detained two Canadians - Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, and businessman Michael Spavor - just days after Meng's arrest. (20 words)
Canada has made its position known on both the unrest in Hong Kong and the arbitrary detentions of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, and has already been given assurances of support from all of the G7 nations, publicly or in private. (41 words)
McNeil notes that he was part of a delegation that did raise concerns, through Canada’s consul general, about the continuing detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor during a meeting with the governor of China’s Guangdong province. (40 words)
His comments came after China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on Friday said it had begun the prosecution of ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who were "suspected of foreign espionage" and "providing state secrets". (37 words)
Example sentences (17)
Beijing detained Canadian citizens Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig from late 2018 until fall 2021.
China arrested two Canadian men, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, nine days later in what is widely viewed as retaliation and has charged them with spying.
During the same period, two Canadian nationals working for NGOs, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, were arrested in China on charges that critics say appeared politically motivated.
His comments came after China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on Friday said it had begun the prosecution of ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who were "suspected of foreign espionage" and "providing state secrets".
In June, China formally charged that pair — ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor — after they were detained in the country in December 2018.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate said Friday it has begun the prosecution of ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who were “suspected of foreign espionage” and “providing state secrets”.
This would be an especially fitting line of attack for Canada, or rather a line of defence, in light of Beijing’s kidnapping of the Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, 82 weeks ago.
After Meng’s arrest, China detained two Canadians – ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor – and accused them of violating China’s national security.
Canada has made its position known on both the unrest in Hong Kong and the arbitrary detentions of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, and has already been given assurances of support from all of the G7 nations, publicly or in private.
China detained two Canadian citizens, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, shortly after her arrest and has charged them with gathering state secrets.
China detained two Canadians - Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, and businessman Michael Spavor - just days after Meng's arrest.
China retaliated by detaining a consultant named Michael Spavor and a former diplomat named Michael Kovrig.
In an Oval Office meeting last month with Trudeau, Trump said he would raise the plight of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in his planned meeting with Xi, as a favour to Canada.
McNeil notes that he was part of a delegation that did raise concerns, through Canada’s consul general, about the continuing detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor during a meeting with the governor of China’s Guangdong province.
Michael Kovrig (left) and Michael Spavor, the two Canadians who have now been detained in China for more than a year.
The Hong Kong uprising is fast becoming a full-scale democratic national liberation struggle, and with Canadian hostages Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor still held by Beijing, the Trudeau government has been afraid to choose a side.
McIver’s arrest followed those of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians living and working in China, on allegations they were harming China’s national security.