Two years ago even, as one delegate pointed out, many would have voted against the motion simply to thwart the headline "BBC out of control, say broadcasting executives", which the Times duly printed.
When I'd made out what he meant, I said I didn't even know I'd been nominated (as a delegate) and didn't want to go.' He went to the meeting out of courtesy and curiosity and discovered that the alternative delegate supported the war in Vietnam.
The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a "bold" and "groundbreaking" outcome even as other delegates complained of "a terrible precedent" and lack of moral leadership.
Even as a boss, I often refused to delegate, instead taking on added jobs for my employees in hopes that they'd be impressed by just how on the ball I was.
New York State's Republican Party nominated Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato for a third term by acclamation at its convention yesterday, even as a former state party chairman warned delegates that the anti-abortion position Mr. D'Amato has long backed had put the party dangerously out of step with New York voters.
GEORGE ONCE WON two terms as governor of the West Virginia Democratic Youth Conference in high school and even served as an alternate delegate to the 1976 Democratic convention.
A16 Iran Referral Delayed for Talks The International Atomic Energy Agency delayed taking any action on Iran's nuclear program even as the British delegate said that a process described in documents offered to Iran "has no other application other than the production of nuclear warheads".
The main characters include some of the Founding Fathers left unseen in "Hamilton"—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock and the plot revolves around the overbearing Adams ("I'm obnoxious and disliked," he sings) and his efforts to goad the Second Continental Congress into signing the Declaration of Independence, even as the delegates bicker and goof off like a rowdy high-school class.
And despite all this spending and drinking – and even as a Bono impersonator (it was in Ireland) embarrased Irish attendees – few delegates 'bought in' to Meego.
