Sentence examples for respected seats from inspiring English sources

Jesus sat at the head of a long table that seemed to go on forever, council members at their respected seats.

In line with the Treaty on European Union,, the new distribution of seats respects the principle of "degressive proportionality", whereby larger member states have less seats than smaller ones in relation to their population; MEPs from larger member states represent more citizens than those from smaller ones.

In September, the court's chief justice sought to deal with the problem by temporarily filling the seat with a widely respected lower-court judge.

"The flight attendants asked them to sit down and the men respected the orders and sat in their seats.

Her husband, meanwhile, "is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land".

The hot seat will be filled by José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, a respected former chief executive of BBVA, one of Spain's two big banks.

Keyboardist and respected songwriter Felix Persson is nestled into a red-cushioned seat inside one of Stockholm's ubiquitous coffee shops.

Results across Yorkshire were the best for five years, Even in Bradford, Labour recovered from the shock byelection defeat and lost only five seats to Respect.

Postdocs have seats on policy committees, which they say make them feel valued and respected.

Most famous for: The former Labour MP lost her Bethnal Green seat to Respect leader George Galloway.

As Master P tells it, though, he is not after adulation in the seats, but rather respect on the court.