Sentence examples for to which representatives from inspiring English sources

Throughout the colonial period Boston was governed by a town meeting to which representatives of the community were regularly elected.

The first Statute of Westminster (1275), written in Old French, was issued at Edward's first "general" parliament, to which representatives of the commons had been summoned; the other two statutes were promulgated in parliaments attended only by the great lords and councillors.

The ITU is hosting a conference in December in Dubai to which representatives from 178 nations have been invited to review the International Telecommunications Regulations ITRR).

Here Mill expresses doubts about an interest group model of democracy, according to which representatives are advocates of the sectarian interests of their constituents and democracy is seen as an impartial aggregation and set of compromises among sectarian interests.

Young's discussion of the dynamic of representation emphasizes the ways in which evaluations of representatives are incomplete, needing to incorporate extent to which democratic citizens need to suspend their evaluations of representatives and the extent to which representatives can face unanticipated issues.

On the one hand, if we can associate to such a conception of voting one of representation according to which representatives are supposed to defend the public interest rather than the class interests of their identifiable electors,[23] the case for vertical publicity weakens.

This will require a special meeting or workshop to be set up to which representative local stakeholders, such as local wholesalers, retailers and farmer's groups will need to be invited, plus a selection of key informants (local "experts"), including women's group representatives.

Another set of scholars was more interested in studying the behavior of particular political actors, looking to data sources like the demographic makeup of specific districts to forecast which representatives were likely to vote for or against a pending bill.

Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that operates homeless shelters in New York City, uses maps on the organization's Web site to show lobbyists which representatives to focus on to increase New York City's financing of homeless shelters.

It just requires you to check off which representatives you want to lobby (state/federal, house/senate, governor/president), enter your address, and then type out a short message about your cause.

At the same time, a judge in South Carolina ordered Brown to immediately turn over the child to the Capobiancos, which representatives of the Cherokee Nation said was impossible while Brown was performing his military duties.