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An act of delegating.

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A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.

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A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

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A contract whereby the original debtor substitutes a new debtor in his stead, with the creditor’s permission.

A delegation consisting of several key businesspeople entered the meeting.

It was a fact-finding delegation.

It is in the gift of the sultan of Turkey and, by delegation, of the khedive of Egypt.

The senate consists of sixty-three members (three from each state and the federal district) elected for a period of nine years, one-third of each delegation being renewed every three years.

Team interaction and delegation of tasks to complete a project.

This group were the official delegation to welcome the returnees.

The -roll of states is again called, and the chairman of each state delegation announces the vote of the state.

Empire, Crmieux, as president of the government delegation at Tours, hastened to offer his congratulations to Italy.

Arab diplomats said the delegation first would go to New York.

Each delegation has the right to formulate resolutions independently, and to call to account and arraign the common ministers.

The general council, when not sitting, is represented by a permanent delegation (commission departementale).

In 1860 he was chairman of the New York delegation to the republican national convention.

He felt that the delegation should represent the full gambit of the political spread within the Chamber.

The terms of any delegation should be approved by a resolution of the board.

Another deduction from the same proposition is that any corporation or private body which appears to exercise sovereign powers together with the state does so only by delegation.

Bryan of Lincoln was their presidential candidate; although the state delegation of representatives and senators in Congress was for a time divided.

Thus the delegation system and the common ministries were marked out for attack, while every effort was to be made to procure for Hungary a separate army, a separate diplomacy and a separate financial system.

In March 1916 he visited the capitals of western Europe as one of the leaders of the Russian parliamentary delegation.

According to the bylaws, this action precludes delegation to any committee of the Board.

A contractual bailee for reward cannot avoid responsibility for the performance of his duties by delegation to servants or agents.

He was not in, however we sent a delegation to talk to his next in command.

Councilor Barr Councilor Barr welcomed the delegation from ASDA.

He said an Indian delegation had also left for Iraq to explore further business opportunities with them and smoothen the rough edges if any.

Meyer spoke of a delegation from a nearby engine works who came to express their solidarity with the strikers.

This creates a gap between a hands-on operations approach and delegation of management tasks to department heads.

Outsourcing is the delegation of operational tasks a small business owner either doesn't have time to do, or lacks the staff to properly perform, to a third party service provider specializing in that operation.

But delegation of tasks through subcontracting is the key which can make your business stronger, and is usually cheaper than adding a department and hiring additional employees.

A business manager must be prepared to deal with the unique issues that teams sometimes face, such as delegation and dealing with interpersonal problems.

A household with so many children may seem incredible to many, but their organization and delegation of chores keeps things running smoothly.

A delegate from New York, he supported Madison in inducing the Convention to exceed its delegated powers and summon the Federal Convention of 1787 at Philadelphia (himself drafting the call); he secured a place on the New York delegation; and, when his anti-Federal colleagues withdrew from the Convention, he signed the Constitution for his state.

The Chairman thanked the delegation on behalf of Council for attending the meeting.

A copy of Chicago's resolution is to be forwarded to President Bush and the Illinois congressional delegation.

I also experienced my first lobbying meeting with a Government Minister, as part of a cross-party delegation of Scottish MPs.

Again a high-level Soviet delegation arrives in Warsaw (Khrushchev, Mikoyan, Molotov ), demanding talks with the leaders of the PZPR.

Alf Morris representing the Chairman at a dinner for a visiting Korean delegation.

Anna Kournikova was a member of the Russian delegation to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.

Members of the parliamentary delegation have asked that social affairs ministers attend at some stage of the negotiations rather than only civil servants.

The reason given by the British for the expedition was the murder of members of a British trade delegation.

A delegation of 30 workers traveled some 1,200 kilometers to manifest their determination to defend the factory at all costs.

Men of corresponding nativity the delegation of based system was.

The reprocessing plant was apparently operating, whilst the delegation were there.

Boniface hastened to send a delegation to the new pontiff, to pay his respects and to assure him of his fidelity.

A nationwide campaign of protests and petitioning merely provoked the enraged authorities to deport four of the delegation's members to Malta.

At this stage the Yugoslav delegation committed a grave tactical blunder, * Trumbic's views being overridden by the Balkan imperialistic aims of Pasic., While pleading for a plebiscite against Italy and doing lip service to an independent Albania within the frontiers of 1913, it added that in the event of any revision of those frontiers Yugoslavia would claim Skutari and all territory north of the river Drin (Drim).

In Democratic conventions a state delegation, when instructed by the state convention to cast its whole vote solid for the particular aspirant favored by the majority of the delegation, must do so (this is called the unit rule); in the conventions of the other parties individual delegates may vote as they please.

This group were the official delegation to welcome the Returnees.

Macdonald, at the head of a representative delegation from Ontario and Quebec, met the public men of the maritime provinces in conference at Charlottetown in 1864, and the outline of confederation then agreed upon was filled out in detail at a conference held at Quebec soon afterwards.

The power of the priesthood began with the delegation by the king of his sacrificial duties to a ` president ' (purohita).

In July 1894 a Dutch expedition landed at Ampanam, and advanced towards Mataram, the capital of the Balinese sultan, who had defied Dutch authority and refused to send the usual delegation to Batavia.

He was a keen supporter of Federation and in 1900 led the delegation sent to London with the Australian Commonwealth bill.