11 sentences with 'delegates'
Example sentences and phrases with the word delegates and other words derived from it.
• « The result in the spring of 1789 was a surprisingly democratic election, with the majority of the male population voting for delegates to the Estates General. Many hoped that the meeting would result in real intervention in a number of perceived injustices, not just more money for the state. »
• « Some 800 delegates, elected from all the German states, operating without the official sanction of any of the kings and princes of their homelands, were assembled, and all wanted a chance to speak. »
• « In turn, the main debate that erupted among the delegates was over the form of German nationalism to be adopted: should Germany be a "smaller German" state defined by German speakers and excluding Austria, or a "larger German" state including Austria and all its other ethnicities and languages? »
• « It should be noted, however, that delegates agreed that Polish and Czech nationalism had to be crushed because of German "racial" superiority, an early anticipation of the Germanic ethnocentrism that would eventually give rise to Nazism almost a century later. »
• « In the "Petition of Congress to the King" of 24 October, the delegates adopted another recommendation of the Suffolk Resolutions and proposed that the colonies raise and regulate their own militias. »
• « In the Declaration and Resolutions and in the Petition of Congress to the King, the delegates of the First Continental Congress refer to George III as "Most Gracious Sovereign" and to themselves as "inhabitants of the English colonies in North America" or "inhabitants of British America", indicating that they still considered themselves British subjects of the king, not American citizens. »
• « Massachusetts delegates met in a Provincial Congress and issued the Suffolk Resolutions, which formally rejected the Coercive Acts and called for the raising of colonial militias to take military action if necessary. The Suffolk Resolutions signalled the overthrow of royal rule in Massachusetts. »
• « Although the original purpose of the convention was to amend the Articles of Confederation, some - though not all - delegates rushed to create a new framework for a more powerful national government. This proved highly controversial. »
• « But the Annapolis Convention of 1786 was unable to provide any solutions because only five states sent delegates. However, these delegates accepted a plan put forward by Alexander Hamilton to hold a second convention in May 1787 in Philadelphia. »
• « Shays' Rebellion gave added urgency to the planned convention. In February 1787, in the wake of the uprising in western Massachusetts, the Confederation Congress authorized the Philadelphia convention. This time, all states except Rhode Island sent delegates to Philadelphia to address the problems of the day. »
• « Fifty-five delegates from the Anglo-American settlements met in 1831 to demand the suspension of customs duties, the resumption of immigration from the United States, better protection from Indian tribes, the granting of promised land titles, and the creation of an independent state of Texas separate from Coahuila. »