Sentence examples for mere delegate from inspiring English sources
In 1977, Zawahiri asked Imam to join his group, presenting himself as a mere delegate of the organization.
The elected member should be a representative, not a mere delegate pledged to obey undeviatingly the wishes of his constituents.
According to Thio, under the view of representative democracy taken by the 18th-century British Member of Parliament (MP) and philosopher Edmund Burke, "an MP is no mere delegate who simply mouths his constituents' views.
Salmond is about to achieve what Nigel Lawson, Kenneth Clarke and Gordon Brown failed to do: kill off a chunk of British local government and render local authorities mere delegates of central power.
Signed ______________ In a political system that was constructed on the Burkean notion that elected officials are deliberators rather than mere delegates, Norquist's pledge didn't please everybody, but its impact has been persistent and dramatic.
Signed __________ In a political system that was constructed on the Burkean notion that elected officials are deliberators rather than mere delegates, Norquist's pledge didn't please everybody, but its impact has been persistent and dramatic.
"In a political system that was constructed on the Burkean notion that elected officials are deliberators rather than mere delegates, Norquist's pledge didn't please everybody, but its impact has been persistent and dramatic," John Cassidy wrote in a 2005 Profile of Norquist for the magazine.
Mr. Obama is now a mere 51 delegates short of the 2,026 needed for the nomination.
ReprintsThe Philadelphia affair was more compact: a mere 55 delegates deliberated more or less continually for four months.
A mere eight delegates are up for grabs, and each of these can only cast half a vote at the party's national convention in August.
But the attendance of a mere 80 delegates (the supreme council, previously part of the American-sponsored offIraqi Iraqi opposition, boycotted), along with a noisy anti-American protest by 20,000 demonstrators, showed the weakness of Washington's hand.
