Sentence examples for delegations given from inspiring English sources

Boston police officers, along with the city's firefighters, are locked in a long-running contract dispute and plan to picket several convention events, beginning with the 32 welcoming parties for various state delegations given by Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

Bush administration officials said today that if the meeting was moved, logistics and security concerns could force officials to shorten them and reduce the size of the delegations, given the work necessary to find a new location and reserve thousands of hotel rooms on short notice.

The Houthis, who adhere to a branch of Shia Islam known as Zaidism, and Saleh's forces have separate delegations, giving rise to hopes that they can be prised apart to help secure a deal.

What the 22 delegations gave them was a rancorous search for lowest common denominators, ending with a pledge to release funds to the Palestinians that had already been promised, and a muted call for the relief of Iraq.The results were greeted with cynicism.

While there are some women and ethnic Pashtuns among the delegations, giving the appearance of broad representation, key Pashtuns remain either allied with the Taliban or fighting it in the south, and the naming of women to serve as delegates seems a grudging nod to Western preferences.

Earlier this week, a high-level Pakistani delegation, given special United Nations dispensation to break the international embargo and travel to Afghanistan to try to talk the Taliban into handing him over, left Kabul empty-handed.

As to how Mr. Turner might help New York in Congress, Mr. Bloomberg said it would be useful to have another Republican in the city's delegation, given that the Republicans control the House.

It might also be interesting to see if Belgrade's not insignificant Chinese community send along a delegation, given that the bombing of their embassy was one of the more highlighted aspects of the war in 1999.

Representatives from a small Christian delegation given Israeli permits to come to Bethlehem from the Gaza Strip hope to tell the Pope about the impact of border restrictions.

My mother, Molly, was a delegate and all the men in the New Jersey Delegation gave up their seats to the female delegates.

Chávez and the rest of the Venezuelan delegation gave Correa a standing ovation.