The dominant authority delegates to its subordinate communities as much or as little power as it deems advantageous for each body, and, if it sees fit, resumes a portion or the whole of the delegated authority.
That was ascertained, as far as it could be ascertained, by assembling their delegates in convention, and discussing the wishes and fears and suggestions of the different localities in a friendly and conciliatory spirit.
This was attempted to be done by the establishment of a central body called a Congress, consisting of delegates from the component States, and invested with all the powers designated above as Imperial and quasi-Imperial powers.
Ordinarily the delegates sit and vote in two Chambers, but if they disagree the two branches must meet together and give their final vote without debate, which is binding on the whole empire.
Entertainment and Recreation Committee: Where delegates attend from out-of-town, this committee arranges for their entertainment at the homes of friends.
The Banquet Seating Plan= The delegates from each Sunday school should sit together, and when practicable be also grouped by denominations.
Banquet for delegates and men leaders at boys' invitation.
Banquet Committee: The details for the conference banquet, the seating of the delegates and the serving of the food, all come under this committee.
Suggest that leader have a meeting of the delegates before the conference to consider what the conference may mean to their own local Sunday school.
It also has the duty of discovering the leader of each Sunday school and of getting the delegates pledged and registered.
At a local conference this committee is steadily on the lookout for the purpose of making the conference and delegates comfortable.
Fifteen hundred delegates of labor unions met at the Mansion House, Dublin, on April 20, and pledged their resistance to conscription.
We at once resolved that no delegates should leave this country.
The Kronstadt Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates refused to comply with the demand, and organized resistance.
The Rumanian delegatesarrived at Focsani next day.
Bessarabian delegates went to Jassy on April 12 to present the homage of the people of Bessarabia to their Majesties the King and Queen of Rumania.
The Rumanian delegates made a few attempts to discuss the German terms, but they soon found that it was useless and that the only thing to do was to yield.
The delegates of a number of volost land committees, together with representatives of the local zemstvo and the Soviet of Workmen's and Soldier's Delegates, form a county committee.
On May 6 there was a conference in Paris between the American labor delegates and the members of the Confederation Generale de Travail, the great French revolutionary labor organization.
The British seamen got their first intimation of German treachery when the international transport strike was first proposed by German delegates ostensibly to pledge support.
The delegates of the council cannot pretend to any independence, since the decree of Jan.
But the British learned later that the German delegateshad in their pockets as they talked contracts signed with employers.
The Pinckney plan as it was submitted to the Committee of Detail, mentioned “establishing Post-Offices” as one of the exclusive powers of “the Senate and House of Delegatesin Congress assembled.
Shaw were appointeddelegates to the International Suffrage Conference at Berlin in June in addition to the International Suffrage Committee from the United States, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Lucretia L.
Mrs. Catt closed the meeting with advice to the delegates to put their State records, literature, etc.
As they had been so largely attended by visitors the preceding year as to call forth a rule from the Board of Officers that thereafter delegates only should be permitted to attend them, this was not disastrous.
Lunch was served on board and the occasion was most interesting, especially to the delegates from the North.
This resolution was unanimously adopted by thedelegates after strong addresses, and Miss Anthony, Dr.
It was a delightful experience from the beginning, as the delegates from the East and Middle West met in Chicago and had three special cars from there.
The Nebraska delegates got word that it had been lost in their Lower House by a vote of 47 to 46, with a tie in the Senate.
The officers of the association held the usual Sunday evening reception to delegates and friends at Hotel Bellevue.
Mr. Gompers to have women appointed on the committee of labor delegates who went abroad to confer with the labor representatives of other countries during the Peace Conference.
The excellent arrangements for the convention and the entertainment of the officers and delegates had been made with much care and judgment by the State association and the Seattle society, which appropriated $1,000 for the purpose.
On Treaties and on Engagements Made by Delegates Exceeding Their Powers 166 XVI.
In June, at an adjourned session of the convention, at Baltimore, Mr. Butler went out with the delegates who were resolved to defeat the nomination of Stephen A.
The conference meets this year, in August, at Berlin, when probably as many as one hundred delegates will be present from the United States.
Pratt, delegates from the Church in Missouri, to represent to us the state of the Church in that place.
The Church, viewing this subject to be of importance, appointed, through their servants and delegates the High Council, your servants to select and compile this work.
Delegates of States not represented on the Commission may be invited to attend whenever the Commission thinks fit.
The host and Lady Overtoun received the delegates in the hall.
The whole army was infected with factions, so that harangues were held in circles, as if they were sending delegates to the Diets; they were thinking of everything but battle, just as if the enemy had been beaten already.
The elections for delegates to the assembly have caused endless trouble in many of the provinces.
The assembly is now made up of 81 Filipino delegatesrepresenting 34 provinces.
I know you will handle the two delegates you are to look after as well as you do the judge's team; and you ought to, you know, because the delegates are men.
But the delegates are now very anxious to pay this money, and offer to deposit it.
The delegates request to be allowed to place their money as paid in some temple, by doing which they would acquit themselves of all responsibility; but Cicero begs them to abstain.
Sidenote: The character of the Convention delegates chosen.
The bill then directed that when a majority of such citizens should take this oath, they might be permitted to elect delegates to a convention, which convention might take action for the establishment of "State" government.
The governor did so, and ordered an election of suchdelegates to be held September 3d.
He had gained some prominence in his state, and had served in Congress for four years, but he was practically unknown when he arose before the convention and made a free-silver speech which fairly carried the delegatesoff their feet.
When the Democratic national convention met in Chicago in 1896, one of the delegates from Nebraska was a brilliant and eloquent lawyer named William Jennings Bryan.
He secured the Illinois delegates without difficulty, and when the national convention met at Chicago, in May, the contest soon narrowed down to one between Lincoln and William H.
Hayes, however, was pledged to a single term, and Blaine was hailed as the nominee in 1880; but when the convention assembled, there was Conkling with a solid phalanx of over three hundred delegates for Grant.
Samuel Adams said afterwards that, but for that speech, which drew the delegates together and made them forget their differences, the Congress would probably have ended in a wrangle.
It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed, and whose conventions approved it.
At last it was decided by the people, and agreed to by the military governor, Riley, who was a man of good judgment, that delegates should be chosen to a convention which should arrange a state constitution and government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delegates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
