(v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
Example Sentences:
(1) On "Black Friday", as the suffragette deputation of November 18 1910 became known, when the suffragettes trying to reach parliament were treated particularly violently by roughs in the crowd and police who had orders to push them back, he also again, chivalrously, argued that the protesters "are citizens like the rest of us , and they have right to fair treatment and to the protection of the law".
(2) Florida senator Marco Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that the government should not force Davis to sign same-sex marriage licenses and allow her to instead deputize someone else to sign on her behalf.
(3) The growth of group practice has not eliminated the demand for deputizing services.Sixty-six per cent.
(4) The case is made for the adoption of a standard primary-care record for people aged over 70 years to be retained by the patient and attached behind the front door, where it would be available to ambulance crews, deputizing doctors and other community health workers.
(5) This hypothesis leads to the problem of judging the validity of biological parameters deputed to represent good indices of aging.
(6) Referring to Edinburgh's decision, Graeme Kirkpatrick, the union's depute president, said: "A £36,000 degree is both staggering and ridiculous.
(7) In 1906, the WSPU headquarters moved to London and for the next few years the suffragettes engaged in various forms of civil disobedience, including heckling government ministers and deputations to parliament.
(8) The day the scandal broke, Hosie’s Westminister colleagues unanimously re-elected him as their depute group leader – a role he will keep despite standing down as overall SNP deputy leader.
(9) We have isolated from a genomic library of the pathogenic Neisseriae gonorrhoeae T2 strain, a gene encoding a putative protein of 268 amino acids which exhibited significant similarity to the hisJ and argT gene products of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli, periplasmic proteins deputed to amino acid transport within the cell.
(10) "The new regulations for noble titles should make you look to the future," he told the deputation last year.
(11) Fill another mug for Tim Geithner (who has left government but apparently is deputized to help Obama pick the new chair of the Federal Reserve) and several others.
(12) Deputed to load a pig into a van, young Harry saw the animal escape, and knock into a beehive, whose occupants seared its hide.
(13) of Sheffield general practitioners and 78% of those in Nottingham used a deputizing service in 1970.
(14) This suggest that these neurons are deputated to proprioceptive innervation of the extrinsic ocular muscles.
(15) If she personally doesn’t want to sign it, then she should allow someone to be deputized to sign on her behalf who doesn’t have that objection.” “That doesn’t give anybody the right to shut down the entire office,” he added.
(16) We used the routine data of the Vienna Doctors' Chamber's central deputizing service to throw light upon the diagnostic situation and at the method of management at the start of acute and emergency care in these patients.
(17) These questions were answered by a study of the Vienna emergency doctor's service, a General Practitioner deputizing service operating during all the nights and on weekend days.
(18) Half the referrals to the service were made by doctors working in deputizing services, less than 1% of referrals were due to inter-hospital transfers and half the referrals were made by general practitioners.
(19) In vitro experiments, with thymic whole-organ cultures, have demonstrated that thyroid hormones exert their action on the epithelial cells of the thymus deputed to synthesize and secrete thymic peptides and that such an effect does not seem to depend on the known permissive action of thyroid hormones.
(20) A faction of grandees and nobles have walked out of the Deputation of the Grandees, the body that has represented them for the past two centuries, as tempers fray over changes to the rules governing the way titles are handed down.
Deputy
Definition:
(n.) One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
(n.) A member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(2) At the end of the year, however, Hugh Davies QC, deputy counsel to the inquiry, also resigned.
(3) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(4) It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.
(5) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(6) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
(7) The private eye was well known to the News of the World, having worked for the paper for several years before he was jailed, when Coulson was deputy editor.
(8) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(9) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(10) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
(11) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
(12) Sir James Crosby, the chief executive until 2006, was forced to resign as deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority after the Treasury select committee produced allegations by a whistleblower that the bank was "going too fast".
(13) "This is a massive and indiscriminate lack of trust that symbolises the rejection of the government," said Frédéric Dabi, deputy director general of pollsters Ifop.
(14) "Not much has changed," said Frans Cronje, deputy chief executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations.
(15) "It is not true that at this time a flight of deposits from Bankia is taking place," said Fernando Jiménez Latorre, the deputy economy minister.
(16) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(17) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(18) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
(19) "We are trying to build a city that is sustainable and we are not being allowed to," said David Hopkins, deputy leader of the council.
(20) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .