That's why we're all here delegates.
Sometimes, he becomes a character in his own videos, hidden under a bear costume or in a pantomime horse – or here, delegating his presence to his own shadow and his monstrous id.
They came here, some delegates said, to remind each other — and the country — that everything isn't so bad.
Representative Tom DeLay, the Republican New Yorkers may resent most, added insult when he tried to bring a cruise ship here so delegates could avoid city hotels.
Concerned about their safety as street protests raged here last week, delegates to the assembly declared a one-month recess over the weekend.
Oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries held bilateral meetings here today, delegates said, in an effort to iron out differences blocking a proposed cut in crude oil production intended to raise prices.
Their mission is to assess the nation's progress, but while here, the delegates also seek to curry favor with the nation's top leaders by going on shopping sprees and showering them with expensive gifts.
As South Africa and the European Union scrambled tonight to salvage a United Nations conference on racism here, the delegates who had gathered from across the world were trying to figure out what went wrong and how.
Around midnight last night, Juan Mayr, who is chairman of the global biosafety talks here, told delegates after a long day of negotiations to go back to their hotel rooms and "dream about the precautionary approach".
She and Rona Mansuri, who came to Germany in the 1960's when her father was Afghanistan's ambassador here, are delegates from the so-called Rome group, loyal to Afghanistan's former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah.
