Sentence examples for representatives rose from inspiring English sources

Tribal representatives rose to commend Hilal and the unity that he had fostered.

Although it has ebbed and flowed, this strand of Western politics has never really disappeared since 1878, when settlers resisted the first limits on timbering public lands, and their congressional representatives rose to compare federal regulators to King George and to accuse Washington of "robbing the poor" and "depopulating" Western lands.

The Sacred Cod was wrapped in an American flag, placed on a bier, andescorted by the Sergeant-at-Armsborne by House messengers to the new House chamber, where the assembled Representatives rose in applause.

The 11 states of the Confederacy saw their representatives rise to 73 in 1870 from 61 in 1860.

But most representatives rise or fall on domestic records, and for them "foreign policy is totally unimportant most of the time," said Barbara Bardes, a political scientist at the University of Cincinnati.

LIKE the rest of America's proud workforce, the nation's federal representatives rise each day and stride into their appointed rounds, heaving committee gavels, breaking down gridlock and greasing the gears of democracy.

One prosaic reason behind this move, reports said, was that West Bengal sat at the very end of the list of states in alphabetical order; by the time its representatives rise to speak at national conferences or meetings, their audience has melted away, having sat through the ramblings of 27 prior state delegates.

Will Democratic senators and representatives rise to the status of the vocal opposition even at the risk of being censured by their respective houses of Congress?

Yet again, the National Museums representative rose to invoke their "pre-emption right".

A plucky, wonky Wisconsin representative rose to the Heritage Foundation rostrum to defend his political idol.

Haverlin, who began with Broadcast Music Inc. in the 1930s as an $85-a-week 85-a-week 85-a-weeke, rose through the ranks to become its president, retiring in the mid-1960s.