Sentence examples for delegates almost from inspiring English sources

This would probably end in an ugly fight on the floor of the convention where delegates (almost of whom are selected in a process separate from the actual primary) are free to vote on the rules however they want.

Both campaigns are aware that winning the affection of Youngstown's lunch-bucket voters and the party faithful can make all the difference in taking Ohio, a swing state whose delegates almost always wind up in the pocket of the candidate who takes the White House.

Meeting and exhibit space would quadruple to 553,000 square feet from 134,000 and enable the center to play host 7,000 delegates, almost triple the current capacity.. "We must take advantage of this unique opportunity to build on the previous success of this important economic engine," said Rick Antonson, president of Tourism Vancouver.

That means the party's radical faction wanted to avoid becoming "Republican light" so badly that 500 delegates almost prevented millions of Americans from even having the option of Johnson and Weld, despite the possibility that the party could receive more votes, media attention and money than it ever has in four decades.

- Sam Wang says yes: "If current polls accurately measure voter behavior, then Donald Trump would get a median of 1,356 delegates – almost 120 more than the 1,237 he needs for a first-ballot victory at the national convention in Cleveland.

Mr. Descoings delegated "almost nothing" and was "reticent about writing down procedural rules" that might have blocked him from acting quickly, Mr. Crès said.

Congress gave the power to regulate food, drugs and other health products to the nation's health secretary, but that authority was for decades delegated almost wholly to the F.D.A., which jealously guarded its independence.

It underwent slight reform in 1997-1998, mainly slimming its bureaucracy by delegating almost all of its control from the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research to the individual universities.

Delegates from almost 200 nations gave standing ovations and whistles.

The sigh of 12,000 exhausted delegates could almost be heard rippling around the world.

The icy silences this would create between delegates would almost definitely result in all-out, planet-ending war.