All 8 Uses of
delegate
in
War and Peace
- The village elder, a peasant delegate, and the village clerk, who were waiting in the passage, heard with fear and delight first the young count's voice roaring and snapping and rising louder and louder, and then words of abuse, dreadful words, ejaculated one after the other.†
Chpt 7
- Guided by some gift of insight, on taking up the management of the estates he at once unerringly appointed as bailiff, village elder, and delegate, the very men the serfs would themselves have chosen had they had the right to choose, and these posts never changed hands.†
Chpt 15 *
- …and known conditions, and to show that all limitations, conflicts, and even destructions of power result from a nonobservance by the rulers of the conditions under which their power was entrusted to them; or (3) that the will of the people is delegated to the rulers conditionally, but that the conditions are unknown and indefinite, and that the appearance of several authorities, their struggles and their falls, result solely from the greater or lesser fulfillment by the rulers of these…†
Chpt 15
- Recognizing the falsity of this view of history, another set of historians say that power rests on a conditional delegation of the will of the people to their rulers, and that historical leaders have power only conditionally on carrying out the program that the will of the people has by tacit agreement prescribed to them.†
Chpt 15
- When explaining these rapid transfers of the people's will from one individual to another, especially in view of international relations, conquests, and alliances, the historians are obliged to admit that some of these transfers are not normal delegations of the people's will but are accidents dependent on cunning, on mistakes, on craft, or on the weakness of a diplomatist, a ruler, or a party leader.†
Chpt 15
- They say that historical personages have power only because they fulfill the will of the people which has been delegated to them.†
Chpt 15 *
- Such is the reply historians who assume that the collective will of the people is delegated to rulers under conditions which they regard as known.†
Chpt 15
- Under what condition is the will of the people delegated to one person?†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(delegate as in: delegate the job) assign tasks to other people (rather than doing them personally)
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(delegate as in: is a delegate) a person appointed or elected to represent others