Sentence examples similar to a handpicked delegate from inspiring English sources

Claims and counterclaims of meddling by the security forces are common in the conflict in Papua, which sits on the western end of the island of New Guinea and has been under Indonesian sovereignty since the 1960s, after a U.N.-backed vote of handpicked delegates that has been dismissed by independence advocates as a sham.

The decision to empanel a "talking shop" made of handpicked delegates who are uncertain about the exact nature of their assignment — beyond the fact that it will continue to provide them with their own slice of the national cake — fools no one.

At the annual session of China's parliament, which ended this week, it was the mantra of the Communist Party's nearly 3,000 handpicked delegates.

It coincided with the opening of the National People's Congress, the annual gathering of 3,000 handpicked delegates who invariably approve the legislation put before them by the Communist Party leadership.

A handpicked group usually serves a choreographer's vision best.

It's a handpicked selection of New Yorker Christmas covers.

One was the annual exhibition match between Peter Leko, Hungary's top player, and a handpicked opponent.

A handpicked bunch will draft a similar piece of paper within the next 120 days.

The saxophonist Branford Marsalis and a handpicked sextet will explore these compact scores in the Allen Room.

The color Nooks could run any Android app, not just a handpicked special selection.

Earlier this month he invited a handpicked group of captains of finance and industry to the presidential palace.