Sentence examples for delegates to him from inspiring English sources

It is quite possible that Mr. McCain, who has scored heavily in states where Democrats and independents crossed over in large numbers to vote for him, could defeat Mr. Bush in the beauty contest yet lose the convention delegates to him.

Before the totals were announced to the crowd, Hancock had gathered 320 delegates to him; as soon as the voting stopped, however, Wisconsin and New Jersey changed all of their votes to Hancock.

And he's only the Republican nominee because he won an insider-dominated convention where State Senator Kim Ward threw her delegates to him over her rival Guy Reschenthaler, who would've been a stronger general election candidate.

You could see the relief with which he delegated to him".

A legatus a latere (a legate sent from the pope's side, as it were) is a cardinal who represents the pope on some special assignment with such powers as are delegated to him.

Mr. Khalid, the likely new spy chief, is an influential confidant of Mr. Karzai, who delegated to him significant power over security in southern Afghanistan after Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's brother, was assassinated last year.

Ms. Harris, a Republican, deferred most questions to Florida's elections director, Clay Roberts, saying she had delegated to him the day-to-day operations of her department's elections division.

Many in Tehran believed Khamenei had already indicated a preference for Shahroudi as his eventual successor four years ago in delegating to him the leader's responsibility for liaising between parliament, president and judiciary.

Lieberman, a big supporter of the war in Iraq, expected the party's base to nominate a candidate who disagreed with them about the critical issue of the day, had failed at the most crucial task delegated to him during the previous presidential election and was one of the most sluggish and cliché-ridden public speakers in the history of oratory.

Clinton delegated to him much of the turf that will define our future: the environment, energy, technology, information systems, housing.

In this way the user can be given access to both the accounts that he or she owns, and the resources that have been delegated to him or her.