I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.

Arguably the most prominent anti-federalist, the powerful orator Patrick Henry was a delegate and had a following second only to Washington ( who was not a delegate ).

Madison had been a delegate to the Confederation Congress, and wanted to be elected senator in the new government.

In 1775, he was a delegate to the Maryland Convention, an extralegal body convened after the colonial assembly had been prorogued.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

In contrast, Michigan, still being a territory, had only a single non-voting delegate.

By the time the convention began, a Senate sub-committee had tallied the monies spent by the various candidates, with totals as follows: Wood —$ 1. 8 million ; Lowden —$ 414, 000 ; Johnson —$ 194, 000 ; and Harding —$ 114, 000 ; the committed delegate count at the opening gavel was: Wood — 124 ; Johnson — 112 ; Lowden — 72 ; Harding — 39.

On the 36th ballot, Garfield garnered 399 delegate votes, surpassing Grant ( who had 306 ), Blaine ( 42 ), and Sherman to win the nomination.

Dewey had won most of the presidential primaries in the spring of 1940, and he came into the GOP Convention in June with the largest number of delegate votes, although he was still well below the number needed to win.

What happened is a Georgia delegate, at least he had a Georgia delegate sign on, was being hauled out of the hall.

Relations with the latter had not improved despite Lloyd George inviting him to a meal and arranging him to be served apple pudding ( his favourite dish ) and he was eventually forced out over his insistence that the British delegate to a new inter-Allied co-ordination body at Versailles be subordinate to Robertson as CIGS in London.

Many felt that Van Buren had been unfairly denied the party ’ s nomination in 1844 when southern delegates resurrected a convention rule, last used in 1832, requiring that the nominee had to receive two-thirds of the delegate votes.

Stephen was named for a supposed founder of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who had, according to family tradition, come from England or Wales as early as 1665, as well as his great-great grandfather Stephen Crane ( 1709 – 1780 ), a Revolutionary War patriot who served as New Jersey delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

If I had the money I'd send a copy to every delegate at the UN.

Ironically, it had been Mulroney who had played the lead role in recruiting Wagner to the PC party a few years earlier, and the two wound up as rivals for Quebec delegates, most of whom were snared by Wagner, who even blocked Mulroney from becoming a voting delegate.

By the time of Diocletian, however, this two-stage process had largely disappeared, and the Praetor would either hear the whole case in person or appoint a delegate ( a iudex pedaneus ), taking steps for the enforcement of the decision ; the formula was replaced by an informal system of pleadings.

After many years ' experience of commanding relatively small forces in imperial campaigns, Kitchener had made his reputation worse by his habit of secrecy, unwillingness to explain his actions to his colleagues, and reluctance to delegate.

Decisions are taken by majority ( more than half of the votes, Subarticle 2 ) and without mandate ( Subarticle 3 ) — a reference to the situation under the Republic when each delegate had to vote on instruction from the nobles or city councils he represented.

In 1958 she was officially designated delegate to the United Nations, a formalization of her role as " goodwill ambassadress " of the U. S. which she had played earlier.

A ĉefdelegito ( chief delegate ) is someone installed also by the UEA headquarters, but with the task to collect the member fees in a given country.

Either figure or a delegate may perform this task, and the viceroy has the option of deferring assent to the sovereign, as per the constitution.

There is an Inversion of Responsibility in which a helper object, known as a delegate, is given the responsibility to execute a task for the delegator.

A working group can sometimes delegate specific work to a task force, which then presents its results back to the working group for approval.

The monarch may, however, appoint a delegate to perform the task in his or her place ; Queen Elizabeth II did this in 1959 and 1963 when she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, respectively, having the Lord Chancellor deliver the address instead.

Its first important task was to select a non-voting delegate to the U. S. Congress.

We can delegate the task of removing data dependencies to the compiler, which can fill in an appropriate number of < tt > NOP </ tt > instructions between dependent instructions to ensure correct operation, or re-order instructions where possible.

In object-oriented programming it is used to describe the situation where one object defers a task to another object, known as the delegate.

" Communication is the only task you cannot delegate.

The sovereign is one of the two components of parliament, but the monarch and viceroy do not participate in the legislative process save for the granting of Royal Assent, which is necessary for a bill to be enacted as law ; either figure or a delegate may perform this task, and the viceroy has the option of deferring assent to the sovereign.

For example, she had to organize, delegate and instruct her servants, which was not an easy task as many of them were not reliable.

Clients do not directly modify the objects on the OST filesystems, but, instead, delegate this task to OSSes.

If a specific celebrity was hired to make a speech, they could not delegate the task to another person, even if the other person would give the same speech, word for word.

Such arrangements may require the property manager to collect rents, and pay necessary expenses and taxes, making periodic reports to the owner, or the owner may simply delegate specific tasks and deal with others directly.

Such arrangements may require the factor to collect rents, service charges and pay necessary expenses and taxes, making periodic reports to the owner, or the owner may simply delegate specific tasks and deal with others directly.

Don't forget, I am an old member of the club, a former delegate.

A delegate from the following Presidency also assists the presiding member and may take over work if requested.

Each member state has four representatives at the conference: two government delegates, an employer delegate and a worker delegate.

He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, President of the Continental Congress, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Being a delegate to the IV Congress of SDKPiL in 1903 Dzerzhinsky was elected as a member of its General Board.

An individual member can become a delegito, a ' delegate '.

The members in a given locality, e. g. a town, were supposed to have UEA member conventions and elect a delegito ( plural delegitoj ), a delegate.

Eventually, the king began to regularly delegate the function of resolving such petitions to the Chancellor, an important member of the King's Council.

It is named after Robert R. Livingston, delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, after whom Montgomery County ( and similarly named counties in many other states ) were named.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly ( New York Co .) in 1846, and a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846.

Parliamentary procedure is based on the principles of allowing the majority to make decisions effectively and efficiently ( majority rule ), while ensuring fairness towards the minority and giving each member or delegate the right to voice an opinion.

He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1801, a member of the New York State Assembly in 1804, and was elected to the 9th United States Congress, but resigned before the beginning of the term to accept, at age 30, an appointment as associate justice of the New York Supreme Court, in which capacity he served from 1804 to 1807.

One of the first white settlers to come to Wyandotte in the years after the Native Americans left was John Biddle, a Pennsylvania-born former Army major who fought in the War of 1812 and later went on to a prolific political career, serving as mayor of Detroit, delegate from the Territory of Michigan in the U. S. Congress, president of the Michigan Central Railroad, member and later speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and one-time candidate for Michigan Governor.

Mayor of Columbiana for two terms, delegate to the Democratic National Convention from the sixth Congressional District of Alabama in 1940 and 1948, member of the Code Committee of the Alabama Legislature in 1940 and a member of the State Board of Education.

In May 1775, Lyman Hall ( a Midway Church member ) was sent to the Continental Congress as a delegate from the parish of St. John.

* The Reverend Christopher Ellis MA ( Oxon ) MPhil PhD ( Sussex ), Former Principal, Bristol Baptist College from September ; representative of the Baptist World Alliance at the 1998 Lambeth Conference ; member of the Council of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Moderator of the Faith and Unity Executive, and delegate to conversations with the Church of England, and to the Worship and Spirituality Commission of the Baptist World Alliance

He took part in public affairs at the beginning of the American Revolution, he was a member of the Massachusetts General Court ( Legislature ) from 1771 until 1775, a delegate to the Provincial congress from 1774 until 1775, and a member of the Board of War from 1778 until its dissolution in 1781.

In 1880, he was a delegate to the Democratic national convention and a member of its platform committee from Missouri.

Taking a deep interest in education, he regularly attended Workers ' Education Association ( WEA ) classes and Cooperative Party educational programmes ( much later, in 1970, he was elected a member of the regional committee of the Cooperative Retail Services in Barnsley and a delegate to its national conference.

A delegate and a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and a Lutheran pastor by profession, Muhlenberg was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania.