Deputations

Deputations would go for authority in various disputes — arrears of taxes in hand — to Westminster, Paris or Rome, very much as the barbarian chiefs of the Early Mediæval period would upon due occasion refer to Byzantium or Rome.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Deputations from the fellahs and peasants come perpetually before the august presence, to complain of the cruelty and exactions of the chiefs set over them: but, as it is known that the

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Deputations from all corners of the Union harassed him without cessation or intermission.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

Deputations were sent to talk with bank executives, statements were made opposing the loan at stockholder meetings, and some accounts were withdrawn.

THE INTERNATIONAL IMPACT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION (1) 1982

Deputations and memoranda demanding �a-Day were served on employers; strikes, mass rallies and demonstrations, distribution of hundreds of thousands of leaflets and press coverage occurred in all corners of the country.

5. 'ASINAMALI' (WE HAVE NO MONEY) 1980

Deputations, petitions, demonstrations, and conference resolutions were the order of the day.

"PASSIVE RESISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA" 1966

Building to Mr. Daniel Willard, and he like them in order to rise in the World procured Deputations from the Sheriff, and after serving long enough in that office to gett a few Copies of common Writts and a most litigious Disposition, left the Sheriff and commenced the Writt Drawer.

John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760 1961

Deputations which have some idea of declaring strikes, general strikes and international strikes, if matters are not arranged to their liking, will be received between the hours of ten and twelve, and two and four, at the Kursaal.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 Various

Deputations waited on him; his intervention was solicited; he agreed to intervene.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

Deputations from all parts of the kingdom met in Turin to express their united thanks to their monarch for the constitution bestowed upon his people.

The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys