`` We're from the Council of Europe, British delegation.

The latter tried to arbitrate through a delegation from Providence, which offer was declined by the invaders.

* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

Charles was among a delegation from Ajaccio in 1769, offered his loyalty and was appointed assessor.

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.

In Mexico as translations from English to Spanish applied to Mexico City, the word borough has resulted in a delegación ( delegation ), referring to the 16 administrative areas within the Mexican Federal District.

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 ).

Maguire's stature was such that a delegation from Gerry Adams sought his support in 1986, but was rejected.

' After his speech, Kasa-Vubu and the ministers present retired into the camp canteen to hear a delegation from the soldiers.

After a high-level delegation to the Sudan from the Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs ties are being normalized.

However, Cyril managed to open the council over Candidian's insistent demands that the bishops disperse until the delegation from Syria could arrive.

If a second party from a region wants to join the first party needs to agree, these two parties will then form a common delegation with one vote.

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.

Under heavy pressure from the United States delegation, however, he ultimately complied with the provisions of the peace agreement.

For instance, the International Olympic Committee recognises Hong Kong as a participating dependency under the name, " Hong Kong, China ", separate from the delegation from the People's Republic of China.

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.

A Foreign Ministry delegation from Greece visited Dushanbe for talks, and had meetings with Tajikistans Foreign Minister Zarifi and First Deputy Foreign Minister Youldashev in 2008.

Trotsky led the Soviet delegation during the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk from 22 December 1917 to 10 February 1918.

Since Trotsky was so closely associated with the policy previously followed by the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk, he resigned from his position as Commissar for Foreign Affairs in order to remove a potential obstacle to the new policy.

In 1984, the OAU seated a delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ), the shadow government of the Polisario ; Morocco, consequently, withdrew from the OAU.

* 1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.

Until 1986, they were called " military vicariates " and had a status similar to that apostolic vicariates, which are headed by a bishop who receives his authority by delegation from the Pope.

The apostolic constitution Spirituali militum curae of 21 April 1986 raised their status, declaring that the bishop who heads one of them is an " ordinary ", holding authority by virtue of his office, and not by delegation from another person in authority.

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 Rambouillet Agreement is the name of a proposed peace agreement between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and a delegation representing the ethnic-Albanian majority population of Kosovo.

In June 1951 the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, appointed him state secretary ( a top-ranking civil servant ) in the Federal Chancellery ( Kanzleramt ) and made him head of the German delegation for the Schuman Plan negotiations.

* 1920: Life and Work Movement — member of delegation sent by Federal Council of Churches of U. S. for its delegation 1920: Greek Decoration — Officer of the Royal Order of George I.

He was a member of the Western Australian delegation to the Federal Conventions of 1897 and 1898, and in May 1898 he helped found the Federal League.

Tlalpan is located between the mountains that separate the Federal District from the states of Morelos and Mexico and the rocky areas of San Angel, Ciudad Universitaria and the delegation of Coyoacán.

He took a leadership role for the Florida delegation in sending a letter to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) Chairman Sheila Bair, claiming that banking examiners may be pursuing an unreasonably tough analysis of Florida banks ’ asset quality and are regularly requiring downgrades of performing loans.

2010 Federal Financial Disclosure forms show Rep. Bartlett to be the wealthiest member of the Maryland delegation to Congress.

In June 1947, he was sentenced to 6 – 18 months on the mail fraud conviction and spent five months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut before his sentence was commuted by President Truman under pressure from the Massachusetts congressional delegation.

The Yugoslav delegation consisted of the President of Federal Government Ante Marković, Minister of the Interior Petar Gračanin, Minister of Foreign Affairs Budimir Lončar, vice-admiral Stane Brovet, assistant to the minister of defense, and members of the collective Presidency of Yugoslavia, without both members of Serbian autonomous provinces, but including the former President of the Presidency of SFRY Borisav Jović.

In this climate, John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, led a delegation to Washington in January 1829 to resolve disputes over the failure of the US government to pay annuities to the Cherokee, and to seek Federal enforcement of the boundary between the territory of the state of Georgia and the Cherokee Nation's historic tribal lands within that state.

In 1790, the state of North Carolina, having recently ratified the constitution and become the 12th state, sent its congressional delegation to what was then the Federal Capitol at New York City.

McLane was a member of the delegation sent to Washington, D. C. to question the actions of the Federal Government.

McLane personally believed that the Federal Government did not have the Constitutional right to force Maryland into submission, but determined, along with the rest of the delegation, that Maryland should not secede.

He led the Indian delegation to the League of Nations in 1939, and from 1941 to 1947 he served as a judge of the Federal Court of India.

As a result of the May 2005 split within the majority delegation, he assumed the chairmanship of the Federal, Industrial and Economic Affairs Committee of the Senate and of the Cordova and Fernos Congressional Internship Joint Committee.

The League sent an official delegation to the 14th Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities ( representing ethnic minorities ), and in November 1965, the League delivered a 62 page memorandum, arguing the case for self-government for the Celtic countries to the United Nations Organization and distributed it in 1966 to members of the Council of Europe.

Housing construction was deemed a state power and the RA was an illegal delegation of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration's power.

In the same year he was elected to the Croatian Parliament ( Sabor ) and later became part of the last Croatian delegation in the House of Republics and Provinces of the Yugoslav Federal Assembly.

* Led first U. S. Federal cultural delegation to the People's Republic of China ( June 2007 ), which led to a number of rich cultural and scholarly collaborations among the cultural agencies and the Ministry of Culture in China ;

In August 1930, a Bank of England delegation led by Niemeyer, had met with Federal and State leaders at a conference in Melbourne.