In response to the uncertainty over its status, and because of ongoing debate over whether Pluto should be classified as a planet, the IAU delegated a group of astronomers to develop a sufficiently precise definition of the term planet to decide the issue.
A group of female delegates berated a group of warlords and political leaders as they sat in one of the side tents the first evening, the women blaming the men for causing so much of the suffering and destruction of recent years.
"They would find it outrageous if a decision was delegated to a group of people from York.
The delegate model selects a "delegate" based on a group of records.
Ronnie Fraser, a Nafthe delegate who heads a group called Academic Friends of Israel, objected that "Academic work should not be blocked on political grounds".
A delegates' group led by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi of Italy inaugurated today an anti-mafia documentary center in Corleone, the home of one of Sicily's bloodiest crime families that gave its name to Mario Puzo's clan in the "Godfather" movies.
CI delegates its "research" to a group called A2K (Access to Knowledge) funded by the billionaire George Soros.
In truth, Mr. Dimon delegates the work to a group of loyal senior managers, and then holds them accountable for the results.
The vast majority of the more than 2,000 delegates were handpicked by a group around the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who had disbanded the elections committee set up to pick attendees.
Shouts of "resign" were heard inside the Royal Ulster Society's Kings Halll when the result of the secret ballot of the 805 delegates was announced, and a group of Mr. Smyth's backers charged out the front door punching the air in jubilation.
Just the day before he locked up the nomination, on the opening day of the Republican National Convention, a group of delegates loosely organized into a group called Delegates Unbound and staged a revolt on the arena floor in an attempt to deny Trump the nomination.
