Sentence examples for delegates the idea from inspiring English sources

California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass presented to the assembled delegates the idea that the propositions are the best we can hope for out of no good choices.

Delegates voted the idea down mostly over concerns that increased regulations might damage poor fishing communities.

Venezuela requested an emergency Opec meeting to discuss steps to shore up oil prices, but other delegates dismissed the idea.

Sharing a stage with Simon Coveney, the tánaiste, at the event in Clayton Whites Hotel in Wexford Mr Donaldson told delegates that the idea should be considered to allow Irish interests to be better represented in the British parliament.

The British and American delegates conceived the idea of an Anglo-American institute of foreign affairs to study international problems with a view to preventing future wars and sustain peace.

At first, delegates supported the idea that the executive should be chosen by Congress; however, congressional selection would make the executive dependent on the legislature unless the president was ineligible for reelection, and ineligibility would necessitate a dangerously long term (six or seven years was the most common suggestion).

Clyburn said the real emotion came during the primary, when -- after securing the needed number of super delegates -- the idea that America had elected a black man as a presidential nominee truly sunk in.

Delegates getting the idea: Yes!

I was overwhelmed by the openness of the Irish business and government delegates to the ideas and provocation of the global members.

(The delegates laughed at the idea).

I mentioned the concept of fiduciary government in my initial reply to McDonald--the idea that the Constitution delegates power to government officials (the fiduciaries) to act on behalf of We the People (the beneficiaries) for specified purposes through specified means.