What's the difference between delegate and emissary?

Delegate


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
  • (n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
  • (n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.
  • (a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.
  • (v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
  • (v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
  • (2) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (3) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
  • (4) Despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men, just 17% of the 2,500 delegates are female.
  • (5) Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, the trade minister, is taking a parallel trade delegation whose members will meet the prime minister in Saudi and the UAE.
  • (6) Relations have improved since David Cameron led a 100-strong business delegation to China late last year.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
  • (8) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
  • (9) The speech also made a reference to the disgraced former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, with Ashdown telling delegates that when he first stood for parliament in Yeovil in the 1970s, the Liberal leader at the time, Jeremy Thorpe, was facing trial at the Old Bailey.
  • (10) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
  • (11) He has spoken at least twice by telephone to his family and received two foreign delegations.
  • (12) Several studies found that these services were less remunerative than other services and recommended that dentists delegate these functions when possible.
  • (13) However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.
  • (14) Most significantly, it has delegated too much to the Bank of England, which next year will for the first time have a governor appointed for an eight-year term, into a very powerful unelected role," Barker said.
  • (15) On Thursday, delegates from the G77 bloc of developing countries walked out of negotiations on a green economy until commitments on "means of implementation" were made.
  • (16) This would probably end in an ugly fight on the floor of the convention where delegates (almost of whom are selected in a process separate from the actual primary ) are free to vote on the rules however they want.
  • (17) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
  • (18) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
  • (19) It’s time to count real delegates, not measure some notional concept of momentum.
  • (20) One delegate raises the point, meanwhile, that women in senior roles don't support other more junior women.

Emissary


Definition:

  • (n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
  • (a.) Exploring; spying.
  • (a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The drainage blockade is active and located just inside the tunica albuginea at the origin of the emissary veins.
  • (2) There has been no dialogue between the Chinese government and emissaries of the Dalai Lama since 2010.
  • (3) Key figures are Frank Lowenstein, Kerry’s special emissary for Middle East peace, and David Makovsky, an expert from the Washington Institute thinktank who specialises in the highly-complex mapping work that will be crucial to any land swaps.
  • (4) The anatomic connections of the head with the mediastinum through extensions of the deep cervical fascia, and the intracranial venous sinuses connected through emissary veins to the facial veins, make infections of this region the most dreaded.
  • (5) Brown, meanwhile, was exploring the possibility of sending Brazil's Lula as an emissary to broker an agreement between industrialised economies and the developing world.
  • (6) On Sunday, after the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s application for an emergency stay, Pence was sent as an emissary from the White House to several talkshows.
  • (7) A small foramen in the squamous part of the occipital bone just behind foramen magnum was noticed for the passage of emissary vein in one skull only, probably connecting occipital sinus with suboccipital venous plexus.
  • (8) The anatomy of the posterior condylar emissary vein is discussed, and the general evaluation of a patient with objective, pulsatile tinnitus is reviewed.
  • (9) The "emissary" is situated either along the right or left contour of the base of the common ventricle, its dimensions are variable.
  • (10) The emissary veins of the islet seem to serve for the quick conveyance of insular secretions into general circulation.
  • (11) And I thought, that's a good advertisement for death, for the emissary of death.
  • (12) Even as president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on TV her plan to nationalise Spanish-owned YPF, her emissaries were at the oil company's 35-storey Buenos Aires headquarters giving its Spanish directors 15 minutes to leave the building.
  • (13) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
  • (14) "The vast lazy planes that floated overhead were emissaries from another world."
  • (15) Anderson has gone so far as to screen the movie for Tom Cruise, Scientology's chief emissary to the normals.
  • (16) Sir Denis Wright, an earlier UK ambassador to Iran, was chosen as emissary.
  • (17) Plain radiographs immediately after perfusion revealed prompt escape of dye into the systemic veins via a number of large transcortical emissary veins.
  • (18) Athens has set up a crisis management team, sent an emissary to the Middle East, contacted governments across the region and used its considerable contacts with the Syrian opposition in a bid to shed light on the clerics' whereabouts.
  • (19) Cerebral angiograms showed (1) the occluded confluence sinuum and compensatory venous collaterals, (2) venous drainage through the persistent falcial sinus, which was rare in an adult, from the straight sinus into the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), (3) venous drainage through diploic veins and emissary veins into scalp veins.
  • (20) In three patients, no blood flow could be detected in the ophthalmic emissary veins whereas in the fourth patient as well as in both control subjects, blood flowed from the intracranium to the face.