Frequent election of representatives and of civil officers in the subordinate employments would remove most causes of discontent in the people, and of instability in kingly power.
We have something in our own country not very unlike them, only the people do not worship them; they merely fall down before them as representatives of a higher power.
At the Centennial Exhibition, Mr. Laughlin, of East Liverpool, Ohio, appeared as one of the representatives of Western enterprise.
In any event, it is clear that all representatives of that family which can be ascribed to a date earlier than the latter part of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century are Chinese.
The Greeks took the articles of daily use, and made them representatives of their ideas of beauty in both form and ornamentation.
Or let our attention rest upon more purely ornamental representatives of the art.
Having chosen representatives of three different components of what we have assumed to be the highest form of art, we may now glance at the end in view, and see to what extent the lower forms may be worthily followed.
These germs, appearing on the prothallium or leaf-like expansion of the spore, are the true representatives of seeds, and the swimming bodies correspond to the pollen or fertilizing dust of flowers.
Those fine clouds, not nearly so visible as a film of candle smoke, are composed of innumerable spores, and such are the representatives of seeds in every member of the great section of the flowerless plants.
Each owner, from his long experience and knowledge of men, sent as his representatives the most skillful and conscientious riders that he could secure.
When the representatives of one owner had finished, they were followed by the men who rode for some other outfit; and so on, until the task of "parting" was finished.
They were the representatives of the whole race in that conflict; had they failed it would have been a calamity charged up to the whole race.
They think they are not treated with the consideration which is due to them whether as individuals or as the representatives of a great party who are supporting the Government.
For whom are the representatives of the Central Empires speaking?
The public and the representatives of the public, I felt justified in assuring them, were disposed to nothing but justice in such cases and were willing to serve those who served them.
While my conferences with them were in progress, and when to all outward appearance those conferences had come to a standstill, the representatives of the brotherhoods suddenly acted and set the strike for the fourth of September.
The Russian representatives presented not only a perfectly definite statement of the principles upon which they would be willing to conclude peace but also an equally definite program of the concrete application of those principles.
With whom are the Russian representatives dealing?
So far as I can learn, such wrongs and annoyances have been suffered to occur only against representatives of the United States.
The mayor of the city, therefore, called a conference of the Chamber of Commerce, of representatives from Camp Grant, hotels, skating rinks and other public places and read the civil rights law to them.
Although the first State entered by representatives of northern capital was Florida, their efforts were not confined to that commonwealth.
The Home Missions Council, which is composed of representatives from the boards doing missionary work in the United States, through its committee on negro work had a survey made of the migrants in Detroit.
Among those attending the conference were representatives of capital, of labor, of housing conditions, the Immigration Bureau of Social Uplift Work for Negroes and others.
Some representativesof the corporations asserted that the men were not reliable and dependable, going from place to place and only working a few days in each week.
In December of 1917, representatives of the various social agencies and of the corporations employing large numbers of negroes met in a conference on the housing situation.
The next day, Midsummer day, votes were taken upon his propositions, each Estate of representatives sending up their vote with a written construction of the propositions.
As a consequence the Union cannot be dissolved by the representatives of either country alone, and the king cannot dissolve it by exercising any power of his own.
Riga and Mitau were captured, the former important commercial centre regaining its privileges, but sending representatives to the Swedish Riksdag and accepting a Swedish governor.
Personally he loved splendor and dignity, another trait through which he won the favor of the Swedes, who in all times have been fond of seeing their highest representatives surround themselves with impressive luxury and wealth.
The representatives of Sweden were John Oxenstierna, a son of the great chancellor, and Adler Salvius.
The Unionist party was as ready as ever to offer the crown to King John, their representatives agreeing to pay a yearly tribute until he or his son Christian was chosen king.
When a king was to be chosen, representatives of equal numbers from each country were to meet in Halmstad, the sons of kings to be favored by choice.
The king is forced to select for his cabinet such members as are supposed to have an influence with the representatives of the people.
After four days of pandemonium and deadlock, the representatives decided to give in and ask forgiveness of the king, who long disregarded the appeals made for his return.
A house of representatives and a council of state form the constitution of England.
Abélard and Bernard were the natural representatives of schools which could no longer lie down in peace in the fold of the Church.
Church and state and the schools had brought their highest representatives and their motley thousands to witness the thrilling conflict of the two first thinkers and orators of France.
The attempt resulted in failure in every case, except where the zamindars happened to be the representatives of ancient lines of powerful chiefs.
Whether there are any other representatives of the four original castes is very doubtful, and even the claim of the Rajputs to represent the military caste is disputed.
By a similar process we should find that S and T each got 1/3 of the property, they being the sole representatives of the groups C and D respectively.
The dower is the wife's own property, and, as the wife is entirely independent of the husband in regard to her property, she can sue him or his representatives for the dower like any other creditor.
A Declaration by the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled.
Its most characteristic representatives are the Paniyans of the south Indian hills and the Santals of Chota Nagpur.
These stambhas or pillars are the representativesof the early Buddhist lats or columns raised at their temples, and bear emblems distinctive of the sects to which they respectively belong.
To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the following documents, received from the Secretary of State, relative to the resolution of the House of Representatives upon the death of Mr. Edward Lasker.
An invitation has been received from the Government of Venezuela to send representatives in July, 1883, to Caracas for participating in the centennial celebration of the birth of Bolivar, the founder of South American independence.
The International Sanitary Conference, to which I have referred, adopted a form of a bill of health to be used by all vessels seeking to enter the ports of the countries whose representatives participated in its deliberations.
The Shah of Persia has expressed his gratification that a chargé d'affaires will shortly be sent to that country, where the rights of our citizens have been hitherto courteously guarded by the representatives of Great Britain.
To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th ultimo, respecting the arrest and imprisonment of John E.
To the House of Representatives: In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant, I return House bill No.
The ideal House of Representativesought to be pretty nearly balanced--half positive, half negative.
We have become so accustomed to these, our tenderly reared or weakened representativesof mental labor, that it seems to us horrible that a man of science or an artist should plough or cart manure.
There, in that house, are representatives of every description of this class.
Finally, followed six manual-engines in their vivid scarlet, and representatives of the salvage corps and of volunteer brigades.
But even the rich Senators cannot be said to be representatives of a class, as if they were all opulent wool-growers or great land-owners.
It brings therepresentatives of the people and the ministers of the Crown face to face.
The rules of one House of Representatives are not, however, necessarily the rules of the next.
It is plain, therefore, that the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives is in its present estate a constitutional phenomenon of the first importance, deserving a very thorough and critical examination.
No servant of the state, not even the President himself, was to be beyond the reach of accusation by the House of Representatives and of trial by the Senate.
The House of Representatives is a tardy grand jury, and the Senate an uncertain court.
No effort is made in the Commons, such as is made in the House of Representatives in the composition of the Committees, to give the minority a share in law-making.
It is of this magnitude of the hall of the representatives that those news telegrams are significant which speak of an interesting or witty speech in Congress as having drawn about the speaker listeners from all parts of the House.
The old pagan myths had shown that gods might die, while in ritual their representatives were slain, and this may have been the starting-point of the euhemerising process.
In this work the representatives of paganism are shown to be on terms of friendliness with the representatives of Christianity.
The stories telling of the deaths of the gods in the annalists may be based on old myths in which they were said to die, these myths being connected with ritual acts in which the human representatives of gods were slain.
In this case woodman, tree, and bull might all be representatives of a god of vegetation.
Representatives of the type have been found in Belgian and French Neolithic graves.
Elsewhere the festival, in its memorial aspect, was associated with a king, probably because male victims had come to be representatives of a corn-god who had taken the place of the goddess.
In Ireland and the Isle of Man the thorn is thought to be the resort of fairies, and they, like the woodland fairies or "wood men" are probably representatives of the older tree spirits and gods of groves and forests.
These images survive in the osier effigies just referred to, while they may also be connected with the custom of decking the human representatives of the spirit of vegetation in greenery.
As in the case of early Greek and Roman kings, Celtic kings who bore divine names were probably believed to be representatives or incarnations of gods.
Probably, also, human representatives of the vegetation or corn-spirit were slain, and this may have suggested the belief in the presence of their ghosts at this festival.
We have seen that the white oxen sacrificed at the mistletoe ritual may once have been representatives of the vegetation-spirit, which also animated the oak and the mistletoe.
The lives of kings and chiefs appear to have been connected with these trees, probably as representatives of the spirit of vegetation embodied in the tree, and under their shadow they were inaugurated.
As usual, in such cases, while their characters bear the marks of distinct individuality, they are the types or representatives of the two great parties which now divide the British empire.
The two first names will be recognised directly as the fittest representatives of American poetry; they rise immediately to the lips of every one who speaks upon the subject.
The claim for reparation vests as a debt when it arises and survives to the representatives of the sufferer, and against the representatives of the delinquent.
The provincial diet is composed of 43 members, comprising the Roman Catholic archbishop, the Orthodox bishop of Zara andrepresentatives of the chief taxpayers, the towns and the communes.
Defeated in a proposal to invite German representatives to San Remo forthwith, he succeeded in carrying a decision to summon them to visit Spa in the following month “for the discussion of the practical application of the Reparation Clauses.
The Committee is to coöpt three representatives of neutrals when a sufficient proportion of the Bonds to justify their representation has been marketed on neutral Stock Exchanges.
I was in agreement,” he said at Stuttgart on February 13, “with the representatives of Britain and France at the Brussels Conference.
But the German representatives succeeded in persuading the Allies that they could not deliver this amount unless their miners were better fed and that this meant foreign credit.
It is not suitable or in accordance with decency to set up a body of interested representatives to give a judicial decision in their own case.
The French representatives claimed that this depreciation was temporary and that a permanent settlement ought not to be based on it.
Its members consist of representatives of the Allies represented on the Reparation Commission, with a representative of the United States, if that country consents to nominate.
That was insisted upon constantly and never failed to call forth an assurance that any territory thus acquired should have that prohibition in it, so far as the House of Representatives was concerned.
But at last the President and Senate acquired the territory without asking the House of Representativesanything about it, and took it without that prohibition.
It is a power not under the control of the representatives of the people any further than they, the President and the Senate, can be considered the representatives of the people.
It reads, in part: A Declaration of Rights, made by the Representatives of the good People of Virginia, assembled in full and free Convention, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government.
It was this abiding interrelationship between electorate and representatives which was the strength of the Virginia political system.
Princes, however, the representatives of the law and protectors of the Church, dared not even create the appearance of acknowledging its legality.
December 24, three days after the adoption of the Interim, representatives of the cities in Saxony presented complaints to Elector Maurice and Melanchthon against some of the provisions of the document.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "representatives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
