A Lebanese Moslem told about its existence and application in the Islamic tradition as the `` divine law '', while a C.A.I.P. member who has been working in close association with delegates of the new U.N. nations told of its widespread recognition on the African continent.

`` The news of their experiments reaches the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates.

Further, they opposed the creation of an electoral college to elect the leader of the Party, who had previously been elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party – in particular, the arrangement of block voting by constituency parties and trade unions, with the total votes of a constituency party or trade union being given to a candidate based on a first-past-the-post within that CLP or union, or changed at the discretion of delegates ( similar to primary elections in the United States ).

These secretaries in turn would elect delegates who supported the General Secretary.

The Charlottetown Conference, as it came to be called, was also attended by a slew of visiting delegates from the neighbouring colony of Canada, who had largely arrived at their own invitation with their own agenda.

In the film X-Men, a UN summit held on the island is targeted by Magneto, a former immigrant who attempts to artificially mutate all the delegates present.

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

Several delegates supported the subcommittee recommendations, including GM Miguel Najdorf who felt that existing regulations were leading to an inflation of international titles.

Madison was one of the only delegates who wanted to deprive the states of sovereignty completely, which he considered the only solution to the problem.

The AFL-CIO is now governed by a gathering of delegates who are present on behalf of association members who meet every four years.

The delegates who are the spokespeople of the federation members are chosen by union members.

Although delegates from the Soviet Union and Comintern had attended, the first congress ignored Lenin's advice by refusing to accept a temporary alliance between the communists and the " bourgeois democrats " who also advocated national revolution ; instead they stuck to the orthodox Marxist belief that only the urban proletariat could lead a socialist revolution.

Though the Pope is the diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Rome, he delegates most of the day-to-day work of leading the diocese to the Cardinal Vicar, who assures direct episcopal oversight of the diocese's pastoral needs, not in his own name but in that of the Pope.

As a result of this meeting, Gregory gave specific instructions to his delegates who were to travel to Bavaria, coordinate with the duke, and establish a local church hierarchy, overseen by an archbishop.

After the followers of Eusebius of Nicomedia ( who was now the Patriarch of Constantinople ) had renewed their deposition of Athanasius at a synod held in Antioch in 341, they resolved to send delegates to Constans, Emperor of the West, and also to Julius, setting forth the grounds on which they had proceeded.

There are 48 elected members of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board ( 40 voting members ; 17 non-voting delegates ), who represent synods, presbyteries, and the church at-large.

If at least two-thirds of the National Assembly cannot agree to vote for one presidential candidate, a People's Assembly is formed from all National Assembly delegates and regional and municipal representatives who were elected by popular vote in the most recent national election.

Many of the delegates to the 1836 convention were young men who had only recently arrived in Texas, although many of them had participated in one of the battles in 1835.

They are elected from the delegates who serve on the Green National Committee.

At the meeting, BBC reporter Richard Black coined the phrase " climate tourists " to describe some delegates who attended " to see Africa, take snaps of the wildlife, the poor, dying African children and women ".

Incarcerated fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche won a few Arkansas delegates who were barred from the convention.

The plenary session is presided over by an active bishop who has been selected by committee of delegates to the Conference.

In experimental co-managed enterprises, such as the state-owned Alcasa factory, workers develop budgets and elect both managers and departmental delegates who work together with company executives on technical issues related to production.

During the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802, the delegates allegedly received reports from a fur trapper that Lake Michigan extended significantly farther south than had previously been believed ( or mapped ).

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.

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.

Malaysia is not represented by an embassy in Mauritius, the closest delegates being posted to Zimbabwe.

There were more than 1, 100 delegates chosen by universal male suffrage, and many of these delegates represented the poor, rural Paraguayan majority.

Eventually twelve states were represented ; 74 delegates were named, 55 attended and 39 signed.

The duchy was constituted by rescript of 20 December 1860, and by imperial patent of 26 February 1861, modified by legislation of 21 December 1867, granting power to the home parliament to enact all laws not reserved to the imperial diet, at which it was represented by eleven delegates, of whom two elected by the landowners, three by the cities, towns, commercial and industrial boards, five by the village communes, and one by a fifth curia by secret ballot, every duly registered male twenty-four years of age has the right to vote.

At its apex, the CNH had 240 student delegates and made all decisions by majority vote, equally represented female students, and reduced animosity among rival institutions.

Seventy-five delegates assembled: from Great Britain, the 6 members of the General Council, Applegarth, Eccarius, Cowell Stepney, Lessner, Lucraft, and Jung ; from France, which sent 26 delegates, among whom we may mention Dereure, Landrin, Chémalé, Murat, Aubry, Tolain, A. Richard, Palix, Varlin, and Bakunin: Belgium sent 5 delegates, among whom were Hins, Brismée, and De Paepe ; Austria 2 delegates, Neumayer and Oberwinder ; Germany sent 10 delegates, among whom were Becker, Liebknecht, Rittinghausen, and Hess ; Switzerland had 22 representatives, among whom were Burkly, Greulich, Fritz Robert, Guillaume, Schwitzguébel, and Perret ; Italy sent but one delegate, Caporusso ; from Spain there came Farga-Pellicer and Sentinon ; and the United States of America was represented by Cameron.

Twenty-five nations, represented by 41 delegates, participated in the conference:

New Hampshire declined to send delegates, and North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia were not represented because their governors did not call their legislatures into session, thus preventing the selection of delegates.

Higginson rose to speak, saying that, since women were now properly serving as delegates, they should be represented on the Committee.

On the 8 – 9 December that year Lauder-Frost also represented the League at the European Monarchist Conference in Warsaw, Poland, which attracted over 350 delegates from Europe, and several from North America.

The YSI is represented on the SNP National Executive Committee and can send delegates to meetings of the SNP Annual National Conference.

Fourteen Annual Conferences were represented by one hundred and fourteen delegates at the first General Conference, called to order on November 2, 1830.

* National Lay Council-composed of the men, women and youth delegates of every diocese represented in the General Assembly.

As Jackie Salit noted in the Christian Science Monitor: " At its founding meeting in Kansas City in 1997, the 40 black delegates in the room, led by the country ’ s foremost African-American independent – Lenora Fulani – represented the first time in US history that African-Americans were present at the founding of a major national political party.

By 1955, when the next Session of the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement General Conference convened under the auspices the USA registered association, delegates present represented " 9000 members ( 1000 less than in 1951 )".