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delegate as in:  is a delegate

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  • My father fired him, but some other teachers were worried and sent a delegation to his office.   (source)
    delegation = group of people who represent others
  • I turned around and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.   (source)
    delegation = people who rode the bus into town rather than living there
  • two men approached Cesar and introduced themselves as members of a special Mexican delegation.   (source)
    delegation = a group of people appointed or elected to represent others
  • It was a half-page torn out of The Times of about ten years earlier — the top half of the page, so that it included the date — and it contained a photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York.   (source)
    delegates = people representing others
  • I did not write the speech only with the UN delegates in mind; I wrote it for every person around the world who could make a difference.   (source)
    delegates = people who represent their countries
  • One night, after the mufti had failed to persuade our landlady to cancel our lease, he gathered some of the influential people and elders of our mohalla into a delegation and turned up at our door.   (source)
    delegation = group of people who represent others
  • There was a delegation in to see me last night.   (source)
    delegation = group of people appointed or elected to represent others
  • If you did then I'd tell them I don't care about their delegations and their petitions, and I'd stick up for you against all of them.   (source)
    delegations = groups of people appointed or elected to represent others
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delegate as in:  delegate the job

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  • So finally they delegated me to tell him that he needed to take a bath more often.†   (source)
  • He delegated to Kreacher the task of telling me what had happened.†   (source)
  • The Rev. "Pinky" Scammon also taught Religion at Gravesend Academy, where his courses were known to begin and end with apologies for Kierkegaard; but old Pinky Scammon cleverly delegated much of the teaching of his Religion classes to guest preachers, too.†   (source)
  • Jackson, the delegated voice, swallowed hard.†   (source)
  • She turned on her netlink as soon as she reached the elevator, delegating the coronation proceedings to a corner of her vision.†   (source)
  • "I'll write a program called a delegator," Trish explained.†   (source)
  • In the second, I've delegated the task to her.†   (source)
  • Red carpeting divided the room into the seats for the press and guests, and the four seats delegated for us.†   (source)
  • He delegated the patrol order to me and the course of action for battle stations to Casanova.†   (source)
  • This Sharmak was an excellent delegator.†   (source)
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  • The very night of their return, while they were having hot chocolate and crullers at the large kitchen table, her father delegated to her the authority to run the house, and he did so with as much formality as if it were a sacred rite.†   (source)
  • IBP disputes this version of events, contending that Ferrell had never fit into IBP's corporate culture, that he delegated too much authority, and that he had not, in fact, made the decision to shut down the Palestine plant.†   (source)
  • India had delegated an intelligence officer to look for pirated goods because it knew that the United States cares about intellectual property.†   (source)
  • I understood now that Stone had been delegated to break the news.†   (source)
  • True, a lot of the less lovable minutes had been delegated to Elsa, their Jamaican nanny, who remained to this day the linchpin of their domestic life.†   (source)
  • Spirits high, he plunged into the farmer's life, tramping his fields and pastures, inspecting walls, appraising livestock, hiring help, discussing weather and crops, and delegating projects.†   (source)
  • The funds were to be used liberally in pursuit of the assignments delegated to me.†   (source)
  • My father was a realist who made his living socializing and delegating.†   (source)
  • It had been a Catholic church, and the priest who had been delegated to respond to the criticism had sounded quite irritated about the whole thing.†   (source)
  • This too touched on the core of the responsibility delegated to the Constitutional Protection Unit.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were swollen from lack of sleep, her skin nearly as pale as the corpses she'd delegated to the ME.†   (source)
  • Party work took more time even though all possible was delegated.†   (source)
  • Delegating is pretty much impossible; I can be downright controlling.†   (source)
  • If we assume that this could happen, there should be no more delegated authority.†   (source)
  • He'd delegated the foodstuffs to one of his assistants.†   (source)
  • I ran a delegator that tapped a search engine at this IP and pulled a redacted document.†   (source)
  • Athletics I delegated to Brumby; referee was "if and when."†   (source)
  • Delegated power implies that some people have virtue and honor.†   (source)
  • He delegated me to complete the social and professional merger with them by marrying Jonathan.†   (source)
  • The people have two securities that public officials will use their delegated powers faithfully.†   (source)
  • First, in a limited Constitution, the power could probably not be delegated by law.†   (source)
  • "I'm still trying to figure out how a hacker got access," Parrish said, "but it looks like a delegator spider hijacked one of our search—"†   (source)
  • At the station, relics like this would be delegated to some low-level drone, or more likely, kicked to a charity rehab center.†   (source)
  • Jason Bourne never delegated anything, but he was still David Webb and there were several people on campus he could trust — certainly not with the truth but with a useful lie.†   (source)
  • Yet here he was, the rich, the privileged, the elegant, clattering over a problem usually delegated to a low-paid, overworked office drone.†   (source)
  • — and to obey all lawful orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Terran Service and of all officers or delegated persons placed over me —†   (source)
  • Reading all they could lay hands on, he and Abigail remained informed as always, and not the least616 of their reasons was the part John Quincy had been delegated to play in events.†   (source)
  • Correspondence courses meant a lot of paperwork since quite a few were continuing their educations, war or no war — but I delegated my platoon sergeant and the records were kept by the PFC who was his clerk.†   (source)
  • She might have objected about being delegated to the passenger seat, but she couldn't fault his driving.†   (source)
  • He had had enough experience with town meetings at home to know that in order for anything to be done certain powers and responsibilities had to be delegated to a moderator, a town clerk, a constable, and, at times, to special committees.†   (source)
  • "We found," the older one said, "appended to each record off physical examination a duly certified conclusion by an authorized and delegated board of psychiatrists stating that each of them is mentally competent to take the oath and that neither one is under the influence of alcohol, narcotics, other disabling drugs, nor of hypnosis."†   (source)
  • I swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the Federation against all its enemies on or off Terra, to protect and defend the Constitutional liberties and privileges of all citizens and lawful residents of the Federation, its associated states and territories, to perform, on or off Terra, such duties of any lawful nature as may be assigned to me by lawful direct or delegated authority —†   (source)
  • The constitutional trial by jury has been violated and powers not delegated by the constitution have been assumed.†   (source)
  • The States retain all the rights of sovereignty they had before except those that are not exclusively delegated to the United States by the Constitution.†   (source)
  • [Articles of Confederation, Article Two: "Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.†   (source)
  • But this assumption is contrary to the States' rights clause, Article Two, Articles of Confederation: "that each State shall retain every power, jurisdiction, and right, not expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled."†   (source)
  • He delegated Doug Sanders and Mick Mahmud as firetenders, passed the word that no one else was to put fuel on the fires.†   (source)
  • As to what it had all been about, Lieutenant Dubosc was still in the dark, but to him had been delegated the duty of seeing off M. Poirot by the Taurus Express, and he was carrying it out with all the zeal and ardour befitting a young officer with a promising career ahead of him.†   (source)
  • But consider—you need not be afraid of delegating power to me.†   (source)
  • As the right to plan was duly delegated to Mr. Jones, no direct objection was made in words.†   (source)
  • In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect.†   (source)
  • Under what condition is the will of the people delegated to one person?†   (source)
  • Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statues of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand.†   (source)
  • Agreeing that one must support delegated authority, Nicole refused their request, whereupon Mary—who in the manner of an Anita Loos' heroine had dealings only with Faits Accomplis, who indeed could not have house-broken a French poodle puppy—regarded Dick as though he were guilty of a most flagrant bullying.†   (source)
  • Even when the affair was at any point beyond Lycurgus and he consented to go, the car of another was delegated to pick him up.†   (source)
  • What are you goin' to have?" called Hegglund, for, as master-of-ceremonies, delegated by the others to look after the orders and pay the bill and tip the waiter, he was now fulfilling the role.†   (source)
  • "Monsieur de Treville," said the cardinal, with the greatest phlegm, "does not tell your Majesty that this innocent Musketeer, this gallant man, had only an hour before attacked, sword in hand, four commissaries of inquiry, who were delegated by myself to examine into an affair of the highest importance."†   (source)
  • He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.†   (source)
  • They say that historical personages have power only because they fulfill the will of the people which has been delegated to them.†   (source)
  • The new rulers exercised their functions with discretion, and wielded their delegated authority without offence.†   (source)
  • *j Lastly, these municipal magistrates provide, of their own accord and without any delegated powers, for those unforeseen emergencies which frequently occur in society.†   (source)
  • It will readily be seen that in this case the alleged right of the Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign.†   (source)
  • and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words—trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated—hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.†   (source)
  • He would have carried his delegated authority to the point of insisting that Edgar Linton should not be buried beside his wife, but in the chapel, with his family.†   (source)
  • Article X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.†   (source)
  • Thus delegated on her mission, as it were by Church and State, Mrs General, who had always occupied high ground, felt in a condition to keep it, and began by putting herself up at a very high figure.†   (source)
  • The responsible duty of making the toast was delegated to the Aged, and that excellent old gentleman was so intent upon it that he seemed to me in some danger of melting his eyes.†   (source)
  • You can permit it an you are minded so to do, for you have the delegated authority, but that the king should do it were a most strange madness and not comprehensible to any.†   (source)
  • [Footnote g: It is thus that "The Federalist," No.45, explains the division of supremacy between the Union and the States: "The powers delegated by the Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined†   (source)
  • and delegated the ministry.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • or (2) that the will of the people is transferred to the rulers conditionally, under definite 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 unknown conditions on which the will of the people is transferred from some people to others.†   (source)
  • Should any body of men be hereafter delegated for this or some similar purpose, I offer them the following extracts from that wise observer on governments DRAGONETTI.†   (source)
  • They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.†   (source)
  • Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.†   (source)
  • First, they had a king, and then a form of government; whereas, the articles or charter of government, should be formed first, and men delegated to execute them afterward but from the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity —TO BEGIN GOVERNMENT AT THE RIGHT END.†   (source)
  • The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.†   (source)
  • The degree of power delegated to them seems to be left in great obscurity.†   (source)
  • and invested with plenary delegated authority seated himself at the head of the table, and the landlord sat down with him, for he was no less fond of cow-heel and calves' feet than Sancho was.†   (source)
  • Though this principle does not run through all the powers delegated to the Union, yet it pervades and governs those on which the efficacy of the rest depends.†   (source)
  • If such presumptions can fairly be made, there ought at once to be an end of all delegated authority.†   (source)
  • The constitutional trial by jury had been violated, and powers assumed which had not been delegated by the constitution.†   (source)
  • Let the most scrupulous expositors of delegated powers; let the most inveterate objectors against those exercised by the convention, answer these questions.†   (source)
  • There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void.†   (source)
  • The institution of delegated power implies, that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind, which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence; and experience justifies the theory.†   (source)
  • The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority.†   (source)
  • It would be easy to show, if it were necessary, that no important power, delegated by the articles of Confederation, has been or can be executed by Congress, without recurring more or less to the doctrine of CONSTRUCTION or IMPLICATION.†   (source)
  • But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.†   (source)
  • In opposition to the probability of subsequent amendments, it has been urged that the persons delegated to the administration of the national government will always be disinclined to yield up any portion of the authority of which they were once possessed.†   (source)
  • We have now reviewed, in detail, all the articles composing the sum or quantity of power delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, and are brought to this undeniable conclusion, that no part of the power is unnecessary or improper for accomplishing the necessary objects of the Union.†   (source)
  • There is no express delegation of authority to them to use force against delinquent members; and if such a right should be ascribed to the federal head, as resulting from the nature of the social compact between the States, it must be by inference and construction, in the face of that part of the second article, by which it is declared, "that each State shall retain every power, jurisdiction, and right, not EXPRESSLY delegated to the United States in Congress assembled."†   (source)
  • We have seen, however, that it has not had thus far an extensive prevalency; that even in this country, where it made its first appearance, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are the only two States by which it has been in any degree patronized; and that all the others have refused to give it the least countenance; wisely judging that confidence must be placed somewhere; that the necessity of doing it, is implied in the very act of delegating power; and that it is better to hazard the abuse of that confidence than to embarrass the government and endanger the public safety by impolitic restrictions on the legislative authority.†   (source)
  • The principles established in a former paper1 teach us that the States will retain all PRE-EXISTING authorities which may not be exclusively delegated to the federal head; and that this exclusive delegation can only exist in one of three cases: where an exclusive authority is, in express terms, granted to the Union; or where a particular authority is granted to the Union, and the exercise of a like authority is prohibited to the States; or where an authority is granted to the Union, with which a similar authority in the States would be utterly incompatible.†   (source)
  • As the powers delegated under the new system are more extensive, the government which is to administer it would find itself still more distressed with the alternative of betraying the public interests by doing nothing, or of violating the Constitution by exercising powers indispensably necessary and proper, but, at the same time, not EXPRESSLY granted.†   (source)
  • It is evident from these considerations, that the plurality of the Executive tends to deprive the people of the two greatest securities they can have for the faithful exercise of any delegated power, first, the restraints of public opinion, which lose their efficacy, as well on account of the division of the censure attendant on bad measures among a number, as on account of the uncertainty on whom it ought to fall; and, secondly, the opportunity of discovering with facility and clearness the misconduct of the persons they trust, in order either to their removal from office or to their actual punishment in cases which admit of it.†   (source)
  • If it should be observed, that a discretionary power, with a view to such contingencies, might be occasionally conferred upon the President, it may be answered in the first place, that it is questionable, whether, in a limited Constitution, that power could be delegated by law; and in the second place, that it would generally be impolitic beforehand to take any step which might hold out the prospect of impunity.†   (source)
  • A single assembly may be a proper receptacle of those slender, or rather fettered, authorities, which have been heretofore delegated to the federal head; but it would be inconsistent with all the principles of good government, to intrust it with those additional powers which, even the moderate and more rational adversaries of the proposed Constitution admit, ought to reside in the United States.†   (source)
  • The power of making treaties is an important one, especially as it relates to war, peace, and commerce; and it should not be delegated but in such a mode, and with such precautions, as will afford the highest security that it will be exercised by men the best qualified for the purpose, and in the manner most conducive to the public good.†   (source)
  • They might have copied the second article of the existing Confederation, which would have prohibited the exercise of any power not EXPRESSLY delegated; they might have attempted a positive enumeration of the powers comprehended under the general terms "necessary and proper"; they might have attempted a negative enumeration of them, by specifying the powers excepted from the general definition; they might have been altogether silent on the subject, leaving these necessary and proper powers to construction and inference.†   (source)
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  • The Royal Canadian Regiment had sent a delegation, all the way from Wolseley Barracks in London, and Major M. K. Greene laid a wreath.†   (source)
  • He looks serious, focused, like he's a real delegate and this isn't pretend.†   (source)
  • First, he took out the photograph of the Delegation and placed it on the desk where it belonged.†   (source)
  • Unless I am very much mistaken, the delegation from Beauxbatons approaches!†   (source)
  • When Sherman drew near, the mayor of Savannah led a delegation out to meet him.†   (source)
  • I thought I spotted the director of the funeral home—the mortician, or his delegate.†   (source)
  • He'd gone to Beijing on a bankers' delegation and walked the Great Wall.†   (source)
  • Kai shaking hands with some unknown delegate.†   (source)
  • This new arrangement didn't bother Tita, it was a relief to delegate to Chencha the painful duty of caring for her mother, so that she was free to start embroidering the bedsheets for her trousseau.†   (source)
  • He had to delegate authority to a small circle of trusted manhunters, including Lieutenant Lafayette Baker, newly arrived from New York.†   (source)
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  • The gathering of about 150 pastors, pastors' wives, and delegates from Nebraska and Colorado was meeting at the church pastored by Steve Wilson—the same church I'd visited back in March while Sonja stayed back at the Harrises' home, nursing Colton when we all thought he had a stomach flu.†   (source)
  • Please be sure that the Sol Draconi trade delegation is entertained if I fail a bit behind schedule.†   (source)
  • —LETTER OF CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE ABRAHAM CLARK TO ELIAS DAYTON†   (source)
  • Delegate.†   (source)
  • He was part of the first cultural delegation from America ever to visit communist China.†   (source)
  • Even though they aren't doing security, they couldn't help sending along a token delegation to show the colors.†   (source)
  • The benevolence of the Germans even persuaded them to allow a delegate from our group to move freely about the city every day and make these purchases on our behalf.†   (source)
  • Once, a player had had the audacity to delegate the form-filling to a coach and it had left a bad taste in Lemming's mouth.†   (source)
  • He hasn't, yet, possibly because he is currently preoccupied with other matters, and for reasons that ought to be clear to you, he is likely hesitant to delegate in this affair.†   (source)
  • What we did hear her say when the audience finally settled down was that we would be sent along with a delegation from La Vega to the capital to perform the winning piece for Trujillo on his birthday.†   (source)
  • Father believes they will choose the Lord's infinite love, and us, of course, as we are God's special delegation to Kilanga.†   (source)
  • On March 14 Burnham joined Davis for dinner with Japan's delegate to the fair, at the Chicago Club.†   (source)
  • "When you were speaking to Sam's delegates earlier," he murmured, "I was giving a play-by-play for Carlisle and Esme and the rest.†   (source)
  • They're tactical changes," one of the delegates replied.†   (source)
  • Twenty delegates were recalled by their congregations.†   (source)
  • Char continued to describe the visit of a trade delegation and the same ball that Dame Olga had attended, although he didn't mention what he had worn.†   (source)
  • Interminable lines of people streamed by to shake my hand, cars blocked all the cemetery gates, and a hodgepodge of delegations—poor people, students, labor unionists, nuns, mongoloid children, bohemians, and spiritualists—came to pay her their respects.†   (source)
  • The convention was deadlocked between the two leading candidates, so, Daugherty predicted, the delegates would be forced to look for an alternative.†   (source)
  • I could check things off lists, delegate.†   (source)
  • She had two full-time employees, but she'd learned that things worked best if she didn't delegate.†   (source)
  • Delegates to the Hitler conference began arriving.†   (source)
  • Look here, Stevens, the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight.†   (source)
  • At the same time, we resolved to create a delegation among ourselves to see Badenhorst.†   (source)
  • I don't delegate well.†   (source)
  • And in 2007, the group decided to assist a school in Ghana as well, and to send a delegation there.†   (source)
  • He was not one to delegate.†   (source)
  • His Majesty wouldn't delegate and His Majesty felt no haste.†   (source)
  • Indeed, his father saw to it that his eldest was a delegate at the 1940 Democratic National Convention.†   (source)
  • Finally a delegation, headed by Jasper, approached Augustus on the subject.†   (source)
  • Last night, Cedric almost went with the regular Thursday night delegation from the unit.†   (source)
  • Inert, slow, he had one qualification for his position: he could choose an assistant, or delegate authority with good judgment; and he found in Johnnie Consadine an adjutant so reliable, so apt, and of such ability, that he continually pushed more work upon her, if pay and honours did not always follow in adequate measure.†   (source)
  • In an attempt to learn the secrets of the jinn, the Scholars sent delegations to negotiate with the King-of-No-Name.†   (source)
  • Among these visiting dignitaries, Max spied a delegation of witches.†   (source)
  • His Worship is to receive a delegation from the Yunkai'i, to discuss the withdrawal of their armies.†   (source)
  • In a flash of rage I almost threw the award—which I had received days ago in front of thousands of delegates throughout the world who showered me with praise I felt I did not deserve—into the fireplace.†   (source)
  • And to this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.†   (source)
  • We call that delegation of responsibility.†   (source)
  • "What we really needed to do was train a few Greg Juniors," says Hoerni's widow, Jennifer Wilson, "some people Greg could delegate projects to.†   (source)
  • "Agreed," the Spanish delegate said.†   (source)
  • All throughout the seats, the delegates were rising to their feet, shouting.†   (source)
  • The delegation was never sent.†   (source)
  • From the French and Belgian delegations.†   (source)
  • Saving the world didn't feel like something I could delegate.†   (source)
  • I wrote newspaper articles, led parades and relief delegations, and so on.†   (source)
  • He won over half a dozen friends, and led a small schoolboy delegation to visit the governor of the province.†   (source)
  • He told me that before his heart attack he had been asked to go as a delegate to the Zionist General Council that was to meet in Palestine during the coming summer.†   (source)
  • Any time he had an audi ence of customers, Grandpa would say what a dang marvel a artermobile is, and then light in talking about car-owners taking all-day trips together, sending delegations to the Georgia legislature to talk up better roads, and having auto races "uphill, downhill, cross-country, and hind-part-before."†   (source)
  • English historian and historical philosopher ARNOLD TOYNBEE was professor of modern Greek and Byzantine history and served as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conferences in 1919 and 1946.†   (source)
  • My father is Gustav Holmberg, a delegate for the Centre in the seventies and eighties.†   (source)
  • But I have a lot of duties and I have to delegate.†   (source)
  • Well, it's like this, Miss Taggart," said the delegate of the Union of Locomotive Engineers.†   (source)
  • A delegate in the Grand Assembly.†   (source)
  • It would be carried by one of the members of a Mexican delegation that was preparing to fly north.†   (source)
  • The only outburst came from a Chinese delegate who referred scornfully to America's allies as "running dogs."†   (source)
  • You have to be a delegate.†   (source)
  • Judging the Delegates†   (source)
  • Unsurprisingly, there was a delegation.†   (source)
  • The S.U.P. is aware that the existing discriminatory measures by the British Home Office make it unlikely that their own delegates will be able to come to the United Kingdom in the immediate future, but they feel that an exchange of experiences is all the more important for this reason.†   (source)
  • Even praise and reprimand he would not delegate.†   (source)
  • The delegates, having attended the morning session of the convention, had adjourned for dinner.†   (source)
  • Rack in the hotel she found the lobby full of deaf-mute delegates in party hats, copied in crepe paper after the fur Chinese communist jobs made popular during the Korean conflict.†   (source)
  • He had gone there with an official delegation.†   (source)
  • The Soviet delegate had quite correctly pointed out, at considerable length and upon innumerable occasions, that this was not in accordance with the Charter.†   (source)
  • Randy said, "What's the delegation?†   (source)
  • Can't delegate authority, then.†   (source)
  • Here're their delegates.†   (source)
  • I've got one preacher out there brought by a delegation.†   (source)
  • Send to your Senators public opinion by resolutions, letters, and delegations.†   (source)
  • She said they had a small supply mainly used for government delegations going to foreign countries.†   (source)
  • —LETTER OF CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE WILLIAM WHIPPLE TO JOSHUA BRACKETT†   (source)
  • Still smiling, he took the documents the delegates gave him and made ready to sign them.†   (source)
  • Minister Wang, the Minister for Culture, Will Lead a Delegation to South America for Five Weeks.†   (source)
  • The delegation from the Faith was headed by her old friend Septon Raynard.†   (source)
  • Will your lunch date accept the British delegation story?†   (source)
  • The missing Delaware delegate was Caesar Rodney, one of the most ardent of the independence faction.†   (source)
  • Not a single delegate carried less than two short swords, as well as bows and braces of arrows.†   (source)
  • Each delegate was committed to public liberty and prosperity.†   (source)
  • She didn't delegate well in her professional life; I had the same reluctance, albeit more personal.†   (source)
  • I received ANC people from all of the regions, as well as delegates from the UDF and COSATU.†   (source)
  • Which means the two other delegates didn't give your name to the police.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry, I thought you were with the Mexican delegation.†   (source)
  • 'You don't know how to delegate responsibility,' Corporal Whitcomb informed him sullenly.†   (source)
  • Beside him, a delegate from Spain, and then Jacques de Raison and two of his scientists.†   (source)
  • "You don't understand, we're part of the Mexican delegation," answered Sefior Ramirez.†   (source)
  • The people delegate power to the government.†   (source)
  • Some of our delegation joked that we were being led into an ambush on the enemy's ground.†   (source)
  • It includes two members of the Chinese delegation.†   (source)
  • Delegate Stephen Hopkins from Rhode Island one day counted seventy farm wagons on Market Street.†   (source)
  • Corporal Whitcomb tells me you don't know how to delegate responsibility.†   (source)
  • Why did the States send delegates to the Convention?†   (source)
  • As a former delegate to Philadelphia, Washington understood the need to keep Congress informed.†   (source)
  • Both delegations have their own military escorts; they'll be put to use.'†   (source)
  • In February, I was visited by General Obasanjo to discuss the nature of the delegation's brief.†   (source)
  • "Uh-oh," said Cesar when he noticed another member of the Mexican delegation approaching him.†   (source)
  • Virginia offered an amendment to the Confederacy, which the delegates studied.†   (source)
  • You advised Canadian ambassadors and delegations all over the world.'†   (source)
  • It was thought that as leader of the delegation he should look the part.†   (source)
  • From the convention notes, the delegates seemed deeply concerned about the crisis in their country.†   (source)
  • The two leaders of the British and the Chinese delegations emerged together.†   (source)
  • But it would be another month before the engrossed copy was signed by the delegates.†   (source)
  • Representation refines public views by passing them through the delegates.†   (source)
  • The delegations are not to run in the face of Western terrorism.†   (source)
  • The delegates simply came forward in turn and fixed their signatures.†   (source)
  • In another few weeks, like most delegates to Congress, Adams was heading home.†   (source)
  • No such scene, with all the delegates present, had ever occurred at Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • To see that this was done, five new New Jersey delegates had been appointed.†   (source)
  • In fact, the whole Massachusetts delegation was in a bad way.†   (source)
  • At thirty-three Thomas Jefferson was the youngest of the Virginia delegates.†   (source)
  • He knew the delegates now as he had not before, and they had come to know him.†   (source)
  • With several other delegates, Adams spent a day inspecting defenses on the Delaware.†   (source)
  • It was on this note that I left South Africa to proceed to Addis Ababa as a delegate of the ANC.†   (source)
  • I knew it was delegation money, but it didn't matter.†   (source)
  • Don't you meddle in this, Fatima, I can look after myself," said the delegate.†   (source)
  • "Well, Fatima, how are things going?" the delegate asked.†   (source)
  • The janitress begged to be let off, but the delegate refused to listen.†   (source)
  • The delegate had known the house and many of the tenants all her life.†   (source)
  • The plotters were negotiating with delegates from the advanced positions of the enemy.†   (source)
  • Now the others, the delegates, began to speak.†   (source)
  • And trade delegations, of course.†   (source)
  • 'I suppose because it is a headmaster's privilege to delegate less enjoyable tasks,' said Snape silkily.†   (source)
  • he's brought a delegation ....†   (source)
  • Meanwhile a delegation of Ministry officials, including the Minister for Magic himself, was being accommodated within the castle.†   (source)
  • The name arose from a ribald joke which played on the C.E.T. initials and called the delegates "Cranks-Effing-Turners†   (source)
  • And oh my God, it's John Ambrose McClaren, delegate from the People's Republic of China, a few feet away from me.†   (source)
  • For as he knew better than most, it was in September of 1905 that the members of the Delegation had signed the Treaty of Portsmouth to end the Russo-Japanese War.†   (source)
  • He was the distilled essence of the dynamic manager, a guy who knew how to delegate, had the passion to inspire, and looked good in what he wore to work.†   (source)
  • They stood paralyzed by their anger; but the major stepped smartly forward to greet Owen; the chauffeur opened the tailgate of the long, silver-gray hearse; and the mortician became the unctuous delegate of death—the busybody it was his nature to be.†   (source)
  • The delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving in October and remaining with us for the greater part of this year.†   (source)
  • To the astonishment of the city's ruling class, 78 percent of the 681 delegates to the Democratic convention voted for Harrison on the first ballot.†   (source)
  • They're tourists, from Japan it looks like, a trade delegation perhaps, on a tour of the historic landmarks or out for local color.†   (source)
  • Years back, delegation of nervous citizens had informed the police, and the police had searched Luther's house without finding anything.†   (source)
  • Then, the big celebration over at the museum, the delegations from as far away as Peru and Paraguay, an ordeal really, making that many little party sandwiches and the nephews and nieces not always showing up in time to help.†   (source)
  • The threat to the economy of Savannah and Georgia was grave enough to send the state's congressional delegation scrambling in search of federal funds for a new bridge.†   (source)
  • Before taking the signatures, the personal delegate of the president of the republic tried to read the act of surrender aloud, but Colonel Aureliano Buendia was against it.†   (source)
  • Harry could see Percy and the rest of the Ministry delegation waiting for him, casting nervous glances at the sobbing Hagrid and Grawp, who were still in their seats.†   (source)
  • Ron, the tallest of the three, stood on tiptoe to see over the heads in front of them and read the sign aloud to the other two: TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT THE DELEGATIONS FROM BEAUXBATONS AND DURMSTRANG WILL BE ARRIVING AT 6 O'CLOCK ON FRIDAY THE 30TH OF OCTOBER.†   (source)
  • It's never too early to delegate.†   (source)
  • But even the C.E.T. delegates betrayed the fiction of that calm as they returned to their respective congregations.†   (source)
  • There are desks set up for each delegate, and onstage there is a podium where a girl in a black suit is making a speech about nuclear nonproliferation.†   (source)
  • Standing in formal configuration, the Japanese and Russian delegates all wore high white collars, moustaches, bow ties, and expressions suggestive of some grand sense of accomplishment—having just concluded with the stroke of a pen the war that their likes had started in the first place.†   (source)
  • The club's telegram reached Depew in Washington twenty minutes after the final ballot, just as Chicago's congressional delegation began celebrating at the Willard Hotel near the White House.†   (source)
  • He simply offered to set up a registry office so that Jose Arcadio could legalize his title to the usurped land, under the condition that he delegate to the local government the right to collect the contributions.†   (source)
  • Troubadours composed witty, biting songs about the one hundred and twenty-one "Old Cranks" as the C.E.T. delegates came to be called.†   (source)
  • For Jozef Halecki was one of those rare executives who had mastered the secret of delegation—that is, having assigned the oversight of the hotel's various functions to capable lieutenants, he made himself scarce.†   (source)
  • But at the registration desk on the first day of the competition, the Chinese delegation rejected me.†   (source)
  • That year, I heard China was sending its first-ever delegation to compete in the International Ballet Competition in Japan.†   (source)
  • Around the rustic table placed in the center of a patched circus tent where the delegates sat were the last officers who were faithful to Colonel Aureliano Buendia.†   (source)
  • Gurney, I want you to head a delegation, an embassy if you will, to contact these romantic businessmen.†   (source)
  • The delegates from the government and the party and the commission of the rebels who were laying down their arms were served by a noisy group of novices in white habits who looked like a flock of doves that had been frightened by the rain.†   (source)
  • The U.S. delegation said they thought it would be safer for me to go with them to Leningrad and leave Russia from there rather than from Moscow.†   (source)
  • C.E.T. Chairman Toure Bomoko, an Ulema of the Zensunnis and one of the fourteen delegates who never recanted ("The Fourteen Sages" of popular history), appeared to admit finally the C.E.T. had erred.†   (source)
  • A popular musical comedy of the period had one of the C.E.T. delegates sitting on a white sand beach beneath a palm tree singing: "For God, woman and the splendor of love We dally here sans fears or cares.†   (source)
  • The ecclesiastical delegates who had come to investigate the report of the strange death of the birds and the sacrifice of the Wandering Jew found Father Antonio Isabel playing blind man's buff with the children, and thinking that his report was the product of a hallucination, they took him off to an asylum.†   (source)
  • The Sino-British delegations.†   (source)
  • Blair glanced at the delegates.†   (source)
  • I spent nine hours yesterday in conferences with the highest-level delegates for Russia, China, India, and Pakistan.†   (source)
  • A delegation of Caribbean refugees had come to his house that morning to inform him that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had been found dead in his photography studio.†   (source)
  • Southern delegates were outraged.†   (source)
  • But I had not yet learned to delegate authority and, for about a week, I was around troopers' country much more than is good for a team.†   (source)
  • The peasants were still living exactly as they had in colonial times, and had not heard of unions, or Sundays off, or the minimum wage; but now delegates from the new-formed parties of the left, disguised as evangelicals, were beginning to infiltrate the haciendas, with a Bible tucked under one armpit and Marxist pamphlets under the other, simultaneously preaching the abstemious life and revolution or death.†   (source)
  • If the many traitors and thieves among his delegation bothered the King of Blys, he certainly did not show it.†   (source)
  • Indeed it is conceivable that a stable local government might, in time, assume many duties now failing on the Protector and even be allowed a delegate, non-voting, in the Grand Assembly.†   (source)
  • I began to work with my teacher on things I might say in welcoming delegates to the Hitler conference, still a number of weeks off.†   (source)
  • Some of the islanders thought a delegation should be sent to ask the old man straight out who he was, for if he was not Hiram Wallace, what right did he have taking over the Wallace property?†   (source)
  • A Chinese delegation is waiting for a meeting with President Gaetan in his office, and I've been asked to join them.†   (source)
  • You can read about a lot of this in a report from the government's Construction Cost Delegation, which was active in the late nineties.†   (source)
  • "The inhabitants of Princeton and Trenton ...are evacuated," wrote Massachusetts delegate Robert Treat Paine.†   (source)
  • In effect, the American gentleman was putting forward the view that M. Dupont was being manipulated by his lordship and other participants at the conference; that M. Dupont had been deliberately invited late to enable the others to discuss important topics in his absence; that even after his arrival, it was to be observed that his lordship was conducting small private discussions with the most important delegates without inviting M. Dupont.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino delivered the historic letter, which was then mislaid among other papers and never seen again, and the entire delegation almost suffocated in the tedium of the speeches.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Ainul would beat the girls herself, and sometimes she would delegate the task to her daughter-in-law or to her sons, who were brutal in inflicting punishment.†   (source)
  • However, his campaign floundered badly, and he was forced to drop out after securing just one delegate.†   (source)
  • I was the walking delegate of this strike, the leader of the victims' rebellion, the defender of the oppressed, the disinherited, the exploited-and when I use these words, they have, for once, a literal meaning.†   (source)
  • Delegation of grain farmers wanted to see Prof and I had been called back because he was in Hong Kong Luna.†   (source)
  • On the right, a delegate from the Australian intelligence service, two high-ranking Thai officials, and their assistants.†   (source)
  • In February 2003, the school construction was completed, and Grijalva led a delegation of nineteen students from Overlake School to Cambodia for the opening.†   (source)
  • While the flour mills and grain markets of the country were screaming over the phones and the telegraph wires, sending pleas to New York and delegations to Washington, while strings of freight cars from random corners of the continent were crawling like rusty caterpillars across the map in the direction of Minnesota-the wheat and hope of the country were waiting to perish along an empty track, under the unchanging green lights of signals that called for motion to trains that were not there.†   (source)
  • By the third day, the bodies had begun to stink and they had to be buried incomplete in a magnificent funeral that was attended by the whole del Valle tribe and an incredible number of friends and acquaintances, not to mention the delegations of women who went to pay their last respects to the remains of Nivea, who was considered the first feminist in the country.†   (source)
  • For the first time during the conference, the abrasive delegate from the National Security Council seemed to hesitate.†   (source)
  • The elves took up the seats to the right of center; they represented the largest number of delegates from any race.†   (source)
  • Delegate William Hooper of North Carolina, another signer of the Declaration of Independence, described a prevailing "torpor" in Congress.†   (source)
  • The little that has changed since the Construction Cost Delegation's report has happened at the local level, and primarily outside Stockholm.†   (source)
  • The chaplain shook his head, feeling despicably remiss because he did not know how to delegate responsibility and had no initiative, and because he really had been tempted to disagree with the colonel.†   (source)
  • Then, in 2006, the American school decided to send delegations annually, dispatching students and teachers during spring vacation to teach English and arts to the Cambodian pupils.†   (source)
  • The dwarves had spread across the gallery and had begun hurling explosive bundles at the troll delegates, as more and more trolls flooded through the southern and eastern entrances.†   (source)
  • I can't address meetings, can't shake hands, can't meet delegations; I must stick to this desk and work—so that I can get rid of this job and turn it over to your choice.†   (source)
  • Colonel John Haslet wrote to Caesar Rodney, a delegate to Congress, "I fear General Washington has too heavy a task, assisted mostly by beardless boys."†   (source)
  • Or sometimes it's as dumb as a delegate from, say, Rome-whom you know is being paid by Agnelli-coming up and asking you how serious Ottawa is about the declaration laws.†   (source)
  • And a consensus of Parliament and the delegates of the other kingdoms could put someone on the Silver Throne—someone like the Winter King, which is exactly what the Steward was trying to do.†   (source)
  • Enrique pitches," Cesar said to the two Mexican delegates who had rushed onto the field upon seeing Enrique warming up with Chuy.†   (source)
  • A Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, Eliphalet Dyer, who had heartily joined in the unanimous decision to make Washington the commander-in-chief, judged him to be no "harum scarum" fellow.†   (source)
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