Sentence examples for delegate put from inspiring English sources
As Phil Johnston, a Massachusetts delegate put it: "Edwards was only unfaithful to his wife.
As a Chinese delegate put it, given the chance they do a far better job of educating and helping peers than do the UN or government.
The member countries of the OGP now cover a quarter of the world's population; those citizens will be looking for a lot more from this partnership than, as one delegate put it, a "data Tower of Babel".
During a debate on Friday in the 298-member House of Delegates, some delegates said they knew of no problem with New York's current judicial-discipline system, but for others, "it's very important that we support our judges," as one delegate put it.
They were confronted by a united front of South American nations that, as one delegate put it, were "fed up with China eating us up".Another ruling, one that offered a flicker of hope for the besieged elephants, is that countries will be forced to register the DNA of all confiscated ivory.
As one delegate put it to me, "Why would you go for Corbyn-lite when you can have the full-fat Corbyn Kool Aid? Theresa May is offering you £360 when Corbyn is going to bung you £30,000".
The point is to distinguish the important from the urgent, as one delegate puts it.
"We delegates put an end to all this public speculation," crowed Volker Kauder, head of the CDU/CSU caucus in the Bundestag.
This is the scenario that resulted in Walter Mondale's nomination in 1984, for instance; he did not have quite enough delegates after the last set of primaries, but super delegates put him over the top.
After hours of horse-trading and discussions among top party officials, the first round of voting by party delegates put Kathleen M. Rice, the Nassau County district attorney; State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman; and Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky on the primary ballot.
They had one of the toughest jobs in Houston: to educate the only country we have, as one of the delegates put it, to the fact that we are also here.
