Even when, amid a storm of riots and the summoning of an intercolonial congress of delegates, the British repealed the tax, Adams knew that something fundamental had changed.
The news of the act infuriated the colonists, and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts invited all the colonies to a congress of delegates to meet in New York to discuss relief from the unjust taxes.
In the fall of that year, a congress of 2,000 delegates representing all tendencies in Lithuanian public life gathered in Vilnius and passed a resolution demanding the establishment of an autonomous Lithuanian state within ethnic boundaries.
The centre-right chancellor, Wolfgang Schüssel, said that he would not give in, despite more problems with his far-right Freedom Party allies in the ruling coalition.Plans for economic reform put forward earlier this year by Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, were overwhelmingly endorsed at a congress of 524 delegates from his Social Democratic Party; officials said 90% had backed him.
It authorized a gathering in Vilnius, on Sept. 18 22, 1917, of a congress of 214 Lithuanian delegates.
On Dec. 4 5, 1905, a congress of some 2,000 delegates was held in Vilnius.
The ACTU's policy-making body, a biennial congress, is made up of delegates from state branches of the federation (called trades and labour councils) and from affiliated trade unions.
You see, there are these things, called "elections," that send different deliberative bodies to organizations called "congress" or "senate" or "House of delegates," or whatever the hell they call them in Louisiana...VOODOO NUMBY PANTS HUTS OF NAPOLEONIC CODES or whatever.
It has been estimated that at least 60 per cent of the congress delegates are in favor of instructing the executive committee to negotiate with the British government and the League Mandates Commission for the establishment of an independent Jewish state in a part of Palestine.
The congress, with its security and endless convoys of delegates, brings normal life in the heart of the capital to a standstill.
In December 1920, at a party congress in Tours, more than three-fourths of delegates voted to separate from the SFIO and form the French Communist Party (Parti Communiste Français; PCF).
