Sentence examples for village representatives from inspiring English sources

A statement circulated on the internet in December by leaders claiming to represent 40,000 peasants in 72 villages in Jiamusi prefecture called on village representatives "to pledge to fight to the death" to protect land from seizure by corrupt officials.

The party, fearful of losing its grip entirely, decided to back its village representatives.

On Thursday, the government released a videotape of an interview with one of the four other village representatives arrested on the same day as Mr. Xue.

Flaherty's first task when she returned to Njoho last September: to sit down with village representatives and arrange for a team of workers to knock the new school.

Mrs. Clinton has said she sat in on a meeting among village representatives and the president after the election but played no role in the clemency.

They allowed the public to nominate candidates freely and then submitted the names to a vote by electoral colleges consisting of township officials, people's congress members and village representatives.

This latest unrest was sparked by the detention and death of villager Xue Jinbo, who was acting as a village representative.

On Jan . 6 the soldiers arrested a village representative and began circulating a list of names of wanted men that included her husband, she said.

Mr. Lin met with provincial party officials on Wednesday morning, and he said later that they had promised that they would meet certain conditions, including returning soon the body of Xue Jinbo, a village representative who had died while in police custody on Dec. 11.

Safe water as a right The village representative to the local municipality, Ilir Demaku, says there have been promises that water will come to Obri, but he has no idea when.

If you'd like, you can make leaders of villages, under the king, so it's like a village representative, who can make their own laws in the village.