(n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
(n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
(n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
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.
Proxy
Definition:
(n.) The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
(n.) The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
(n.) A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
(n.) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
(n.) See Procuration.
(v. i.) To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relation to self-reports.
(2) Then they look at a poll and assume that a poll is a proxy for what is really going on.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron and Crosby during the London mayoral campaign in 2012.
(3) The overall impact may be estimated by relating the degree of urbanization of populations to some proxy measure, like the under-5 mortality rates.
(4) In two-stage epidemiological study the screening wave and the diagnostic instrument should be considered together in relation to a third proxy gold standard such as progression of the disorder to moderate and greater severity and neuropathological diagnosis.
(5) After the diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome by proxy was made, the child was removed from the mother and he has since enjoyed good health.
(6) Mullen said earlier this week there is a "proxy connection" between Pakistani intelligence services and the Haqqanis, meaning the militants are secretly doing the Pakistanis' bidding.
(7) The results of the study suggest that in urban Bangladesh 24-hour recall and knowledge-attitude-practice questionnaires should not be used as proxies for direct observation of hygiene practices.
(8) This plays into the widespread belief that Muslims are under attack from a belligerent west and its local proxies.
(9) But the last thing we need is to start a proxy war between the generations.
(10) Saudis and their Sunni Arab allies view Houthi fighters – who belong to the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam – as Iranian proxies and have accused Tehran of militarily backing them, a charge Iran vehemently denies.
(11) Readiness to negotiate with Cameron shrinks if it starts to feel like a negotiation with the backbench of the Conservative party using Cameron as a proxy.
(12) Less confidence can be placed in proxy-based reconstructions of surface temperatures for AD 900 to 1600, although the available proxy evidence does indicate that many locations were warmer during the past 25 years than during any other 25-year period since 900."
(13) But beyond this, Ramsey has a fundamentally different conception of the child from McCormick, and therefore gives a very different interpretation to this standard for valid proxy consent.
(14) Find out the accepted forms of photo ID To apply to vote by post or proxy, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form.
(15) Length of service was a good proxy predictor for most respiratory abnormalities, while respirable dust was a good proxy for respirable free silica.
(16) Pentagon assurances about the parlous state of its Syrian proxies are in doubt: within a week, it initially denied and then conceded that one group provided US equipment to al-Qaida in Syria and that it has paused the process of adding new recruits.
(17) He also hinted that western intelligence agencies had helped in the emergence of Isis, using the militants as a proxy to fight against the Syrian regime and thereby “putting the blades in their hands”.
(18) I think on issues like climate change and evolution it ends up being a proxy for identity politics,” said Michael Halpern, a program manager for the nonprofit and nonpartisan Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
(19) The delivery also comes amid an increasingly hot – if still largely proxy conflict – between Iran and Saudi Arabia, most recently in Yemen where the US has backed Saudi Arabia.
(20) Hagel reportedly urged the White House to clarify its intentions with regard to Assad, which analysts warn is a self-imposed obstacle to building its Syrian proxy force.