Sentence examples for deputations from inspiring English sources

Muhammad began to receive deputations from many parts of Arabia.

They organized innumerable petitions and deputations in the early years of the 20th century, protesting what they regarded as a betrayal of the British tradition of equality before the law.

They held to a more direct vision of popular sovereignty as relentless vigilance and participation by citizens through demonstrations, petitions, deputations, and, if necessary, insurrection.

Though he had become something of a recluse on his island, he kept abreast of affairs through the numerous deputations that called on him, and he habitually made pronouncements on affairs of the day.

It met annually in different cities, chose the officials known as Asiarchs, passed resolutions, made appeals, sent deputations on provincial matters, and organized the worship of the emperor.

"Deputations and Committees wait upon me every day — some have come 2,000 miles — it is nothing to say that they carry me through the country on their shoulders".

According to one theory, as early as next week a deputation of senior figures will inform him that unless he resigns with dignity a formal leadership challenge is inevitable.

On September 18th and 19th Mr García will head a deputation, including half his cabinet and more than 200 business leaders, to see Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in São Paulo.With luck, it will be a fruitful visit.

(Mr Ashcroft once refused to sign off on the legality of a wiretapping programme when he was attorney-general; Mr Gonzales joined a White House deputation to his sick bed to try to force him).

Erzberger headed the German deputation to the Truce Commission of Compiègne, Fr., where, on November 11, he signed the Armistice.

A deputation of the estates of Lower Austria tried to make him renounce Bohemia in a peace treaty and demanded religious concessions for themselves, unsuccessfully.