It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

A stronger stand on their beliefs and a firmer grasp on their future were taken Friday by delegates to the 29th general council of the Assemblies of God, in session at the Memorial Coliseum.

The Articles were created by delegates from the states in the Second Continental Congress out of a need to have " a plan of confederacy for securing the freedom, sovereignty, and independence of the United States.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

The Reichstag delegates were elected by direct and equal male suffrage ( and not the three-class electoral system prevailing in Prussia until 1918 ).

In addition, owing to the city's legal status, citizens of West Berlin were unable to vote in elections to the Bundestag, and were instead represented by 20 non-voting delegates, indirectly elected by the city's House of Representatives.

They were gradually joined by delegates of the other estates ; Louis XVI started to recognize their validity on 27 June.

An explanation suggests that the delegates were bishops in the actual sense of the term, but that they did not possess fixed sees nor had they a special title.

Earlier French demands for the country to hold a National Conference resulted in the gathering of 750 delegates representing political parties ( which were legalized in 1992 ), the government, trade unions and the army to discuss the creation of a pluralist democratic regime.

Twelve voting delegates were seated at the 1st National Congress in 1921, as well as at the 2nd ( in 1922 ), when they represented 195 party members.

By 1923, the 420 members were represented by 30 delegates.

Some delegates objected to the establishment of the Politburo, and in response, the Politburo became responsible to the Central Committee, and Central Committee members could participate in Politburo sessions with a consultative voice, but could not vote unless they were members.

" Several delegates to the Congress were quite specific in the criticism, one of them accusing Lenin and his associates of making the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic a place of exile for opponents.

Trotsky accused the delegates of the 12th Party Congress ( 17 – 25 April 1923 ) of being indirectly elected by the center, citing that 55. 1 % of the voting delegates at the congress were full-time members, at the previous congress only 24. 8 % of the voting-delegates were full-members.

The tone of the 17th Party Congress was different than its predecessors ; several old oppositionists became delegates, and were re-elected to the Central Committee.

The resolution was accepted, and all of the delegates who had spoken out were expelled from the party and imprisoned.

The arrest of Feake and Powell was sufficient for a time to dampen their ardour, but many of the delegates to Barebone's Parliament were from congregations with Fifth Monarchist sympathies.

Saudi King Abdullah told Fatah delegates meeting in Bethlehem that divisions among the Palestinians were more damaging to their cause of an independent state than the Israeli " enemy.

Fatah delegates resolved not to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks until preconditions were met.

Hearst hopped into a private railroad car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal canvass for delegates in the western and southern states, always wearing a frock coat, listening intently to local politicians, and generally making a good impression.

Various estimates of the number of delegates were reported in the press ; the New York Times reported 156 delegates, but the number generally reported elsewhere was 350 delegates.

As he was elected with the help of most delegates of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP / Liberals ) his election was generally understood as a sign of the re-orientation of the FDP with regard to a future coalition with the SPD ( Social-liberal coalition, October 1969-October 1982 ).

The group of unpledged delegates, also known as superdelegates, generally comprising current and former elected officeholders and party leaders, are free to vote for any candidate they wish at the convention.

" Historians generally reject the popular notion that the delegates were inspired by the Iroquois Confederation.

Ironically, the vote on the editorial board was not seen as important by any of the disputants at the time, and in fact the Bolsheviks were generally in a minority but some delegates had not been present for the crucial vote who would otherwise have voted for the Mensheviks.

The states are represented at its sessions by their chosen delegates: generally, their ministers of foreign affairs, or their appointed deputies.

Egyptians generally did not identify themselves as Arabs, and it is revealing that when the Egyptian nationalist leader Saad Zaghlul met the Arab delegates at Versailles in 1918, he insisted that their struggles for statehood were not connected, claiming that the problem of Egypt was an Egyptian problem and not an Arab one.

Nevertheless, as an institution it was more or less tolerated by the Marxist – Leninist atheist regime, though controlled through " special delegates " and excluded from the public space ; the regime generally focused on individuals.

The highest body in the Unity of Brethren Baptists is a " convention of delegates ", which generally holds sessions once a year.

The vast majority of members of the General Assembly who are ultimately elected ( in excess of 90 % of members ultimately elected in all recent sessions ) are nominated through a major political party caucus process that places candidates on a primary ballot for the position sought in their political party, which generally requires 30 % support from delegates to the relevant nominating body of the political party.

The party executive or party leader generally control the list, consequently closed-list systems transfer political power to the un-elected persons ( strategists, delegates, party officials, etc.

Vice Presidential voting has been problematic since the beginning, as the delegates generally don't really want to deal with it, and it provides for mischief, as was the case in 1972's Democratic Convention where the vote was scattered between 50 " candidates " and 1976 Republican convention, where the vote was also scattered widely.

The government delegations usually consist of one to six delegates, comprising generally a mix of national experts ( some of which are part of the IPCC ) and a few diplomats or other non-scientist civil servants.

The appointment of the delegates to both these congresses was generally by popular conventions, though in some instances by state assemblies.

To fund this obligation, the property / casualty insurer generally takes one of two typical approaches: It either purchases an annuity from a life insurance company ( an arrangement called a " buy and hold " case ) or it assigns ( or, more properly, delegates ) its periodic payment obligation to a third party (" assigned case ") which in turn purchases a " qualified funding asset " to finance the assigned periodic payment obligation.

In ancient times, the popes generally exercised their right of inspecting the dioceses of various countries through their nuncios or delegates ( c. 1, Extravag.

At the June, 2002, Loya Jirga to select the Head of State, representatives of the US convinced the former king of Afghanistan, 87-year old Zahir Shah, to withdraw from consideration, even though a majority of Loya Jirga delegates supported him, a move which angered Pashtuns who were concerned with the disproportionate power of the Northern Alliance in the Karzai government.

Sam Houston convinced the delegates to remain in Washington-on-the-Brazos to finish working on the constitution.

Yugoslav representatives urged for a border on the Drava ; American delegates however spoke in favor of preserving the unity of the Klagenfurt Basin and convinced the British and French delegations.

De facto party leader Réal Caouette opposed the creation of a provincial party, and convinced delegates to accept the creation of a ten-member committee to study the proposal instead.

Commonwealth delegates convinced America to invite several nations to Washington to participate in talks regarding Pacific and Far East policies, specifically naval disarmament.

Longtime Siegel friend Lansky convinced the delegates to see how the hotel did in its opening.

However these two delegates were convinced to vote for the manifesto so that it could be passed unanimously.

Jefferson was able to get the Virginia delegates to support the bill, with the debt provisions, while Hamilton convinced the New York delegates to agree to the Potomac site for the capital.

Watson found it necessary to remove many Kennedy family loyalists from the convention staff, as he became convinced that they were working to either force Johnson to accept Robert Kennedy as his running mate, or else stampede the delegates to have RFK nominated for the presidency instead of Johnson.

Experience had convinced the delegates that an upper house was necessary to tame the passions of the people.

It was this, not simply Madison's earlier agreement to replace the word " national " in the constitution with the word " federal ", that convinced the delegates that the Constitution had a federal character.