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delegation and diplomats
* The French delegation was headed by Henri II d ' Orléans, duc de Longueville and further comprised the diplomats Claude d ' Avaux and Abel Servien.
* The Spanish delegation was headed by Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, and besides included the diplomats and writers Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, and Bernardino de Rebolledo.
With Napoleon apparently gone, and the British invasion of New York defeated, British and American diplomats ( Clay and John Quincy Adams among the American delegation ) signed the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve, 1814.
The XYZ Affair originated with a report distributed by Adams where alleged French agents were identified by the letters X, Y, and Z who informed the delegation a bribe must be paid before the diplomats could meet with the foreign minister, and the resulting scandal increased popular support in the country for a war with France.
He joined with Georg Ludwig von Maurer in opposing the head of the delegation, Count Josef Ludwig von Armansperg who he felt was too susceptible to the wishes of the English diplomats.
For example, in A Rising Thunder this point is directly addressed in dialog with the Haven diplomatic delegation visiting Manticore in the discussion about whether the Mesan Alignment could actually exist — in short for her to detail what she sensed from the just concluded briefing by Herlander Simões, the Mesan physicist who had defected from the Mesan Alignment when the diplomats were again alone in session.

delegation and arrived
When the pro-Nestorius Antiochene delegation finally arrived, they decided to convene their own council over which Candidian presided.
The absence of armed personnel had worried Israeli delegation head Shmuel Lalkin even before his team arrived in Munich.
Vytautas sent a delegation in 1415, including the metropolitan of Kiev ; and Samogitian witnesses arrived at Constance at the end of that year to point out their preference for being " baptised with water and not with blood ".
After a delegation from Massachusetts ( which had issued Arnold's commission ) arrived to clarify the matter, Arnold resigned his commission and departed, leaving the fort in Hinman's hands.
The Palestinian delegation of 16 bishops and Metropolitan Flavian of Philippi arrived 5 days after the date that had been set for opening the council, and aligned themselves with Cyril.
When in 1826 the U. S. was invited to attend the Columbia Conference of new nations, opposition emerged, and the American delegation never arrived.
In October 1832 a delegation arrived in Indian Territory and conferred with the Muscogee ( Creek ) Nation tribe that had already been removed to the area.
To their enormous embarrassment however on 7 March a large English delegation of 246 arrived at The Hague, headed by Oliver St John, to negotiate the conditions under which the Dutch Republic might unite itself with England, sent by Cromwell who had taken the earlier suggestions quite too seriously.
On 10 December, a Tyrolean delegation arrived in Graz to demand the release of Sigismund and the return of the county's treasures, taken by Friedrich in 1440.
Five months later, a delegation of over 30 members arrived in Madison to tour the city and to ratify the sister city relationship.
He later obtained a position on a United Nations delegation to Kashmir, and sent his family to the United States, by way of London, to wait for him when he arrived to deliver his report to the U. N. Headquarters, then in Lake Success, New York.
The letter only arrived in London on 16 November and by then messengers had already been despatched from Natal to the Zulu king to request the presence of a delegation at the Lower Tugela on 11 December for the purpose of receiving the Boundary Commission ’ s findings.
As members of Ryan's delegation boarded two planes at the airstrip, Jones ' " Red Brigade " armed guards arrived in a tractor-pulled trailer and began shooting at the delegation.
In 1265 a Mongol delegation arrived from Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire.
They were also active in seeking the vote: in 1913 a delegation of them arrived at the legislature demanding the vote ; Sifton asked them " did you ladies wash up your luncheon dishes before you came down here to ask me for the vote?
" In October 1914 another delegation arrived, bearing the signatures of 40, 000 people.
In February 1915 a larger delegation arrived at the legislature and occupied the MLAs ' seats, demanding that the franchise be extended quickly enough to allow women to vote in the upcoming prohibition referendum ; an angry Sifton refused and suggested to the women that if they wanted the vote, they should contact their MLAs and promise that they would use their votes to re-elect them, " which is after all one of the strongest way in which you can appeal to male human nature, as represented in the legislature.
* January 4-A Chinese delegation of the Chinese OFEM company arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan to assist the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan with the revival of hydel power projects.
On 25 March 1987, WJC leaders Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Israel Singer, Sol Kanee and Elan Steinberg, as well as the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Morris Berthold Abram, arrived in Moscow to discuss the matter with Soviet government ministers, though officials swiftly denied that the USSR had agreed to an increase in Jewish emigration and had invited an Israeli delegation to visit Moscow.
Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a six-man ZAKA International Search and Rescue Unit delegation arrived in Haiti to assist with search and recovery efforts.
Within two weeks, Randolph was summoned back to Virginia to preside over the House of Burgesses ; he was replaced in the Virginia delegation by Thomas Jefferson, who arrived several weeks later.
On May 29, 1834, Ross received word from John H. Eaton, that a new delegation, including Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Ross ' younger brother Andrew, collectively called the " Ridge Party " or " Treaty Party ", had arrived in Washington with the goal of signing a treaty of removal.
When the delegation arrived at Antioch, the barons there were ready to accept Leo as overlord, and allowed Bartholomew Tirel to bring the Armenian soldiers into the city and establish them in the palace.

delegation and Tours
This advice was rejected because of fear of another revolution in Paris, and a delegation to organize resistance in the provinces was despatched to Tours, but when this was seen to be ineffective, Gambetta himself ( 7 October ) left Paris in a hot air balloon – the " Armand-Barbès " – and upon arriving at Tours took control as minister of the interior and of war.
At the height of the Springbok tour of 1981, Beattie met a delegation from Halt All Racist Tours.

delegation and by
When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.
The latter tried to arbitrate through a delegation from Providence, which offer was declined by the invaders.
One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
This broad delegation leaves within our discretion ( subject to the always-present criterion of the public interest ) both the determination of what degree of interference shall be considered excessive, and the methods by which such excessive interference shall be avoided.
He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line.
He taught at Paris in the academic year 1232-33, but was appointed to a delegation by Henry III of England in 1235, along with Simon Langton and Fulk Basset, to negotiate for the renewal of the peace between England and France.
On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.
the bishop was understood as the president of the council of presbyters, and so the bishop was distinguished both in honor and in prerogative from the presbyters, who were seen as deriving their authority by means of delegation from the bishop.
For example, most areas of law in most Anglo-American jurisdictions include " statutory law " enacted by a legislature, " regulatory law " promulgated by executive branch agencies pursuant to delegation of rule-making authority from the legislature, and common law or " case law ", i. e., decisions issued by courts ( or quasi-judicial tribunals within agencies ).
The delegation was denied access to the camp by Iraqi government, citing their sovereignty.
The role of primitive notions, or undefined concepts, was clearly put forward by Alessandro Padoa of the Peano delegation at the 1900 Paris conference:
U. S. state governments, therefore, administering state law adopted under state police powers or federal law by delegation, uniformly include environmental agencies.
However, the Yugoslav delegation led by Velimir Stoinić accused the party of " sectarianism and opportunism " and blamed Hoxha for these errors.
Some days after that meeting, the delegation was approached by three French agents ( at first identified as " X ", " Y ", and " Z " in published papers, leading the controversy to be called the " XYZ Affair ") who demanded substantial bribes from the commissioners before negotiations could continue.
Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
In late September 1996 a visit to the country the delegation of the Federation Council of Federal Assembly of Russian Federation headed by Moscow Gordumy VM Platonov.
The Roman army in Britannia continued its insubordination: they sent a delegation of 1, 500 to Rome to demand the execution of Tigidius Perennis, a Praetorian Prefect who they felt had earlier wronged them by posting lowly equites to legate ranks in Britannia.
A delegation sent by a postwar Albanian National Assembly that met at Durrës in December 1918 defended Albanian interests at the Paris Peace Conference, but the conference denied Albania official representation.
The Irish delegation was led by Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins.
The Senate accepted Monroe's request and asked Calhoun to draft a bill, which was killed in the House of Representatives by the Georgia delegation.
An indeterminate number of anti-Virginia Republicans, led by the New York delegation, objected to the caucus system along with the Federalists.
Although Stephen Mallory was not put forward by the delegation from his state of Florida, Davis insisted that he was the best man for the job of Secretary of the Navy, and he was eventually confirmed.
Or rather, such free initiative can only arise and develop by the masses ridding themselves of the ‘ authoritarian prejudices ’ by means of which the state reproduces itself in its primary function of representation and delegation.

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