8 sentences with 'representatives'
Example sentences and phrases with the word representatives and other words derived from it.
• « One of the greatest representatives of psychology was the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the continuator and master of a legion of daring Sherlock Holmes of the psyche. »
• « Meanwhile, he insisted that he and his queen, Nefertiti, be worshipped as gods themselves as direct representatives of the Aten. »
• « Because the great kings believed that they were the earthly representatives of Ahura Mazda, they claimed that the expansion of the empire would bring the final triumph of good over evil sooner. »
• « The Holy Roman Empire had a parliament, the Imperial Diet, where representatives of the member states, free cities, kingdoms, duchies and church lands met to petition the emperor and discuss the political issues of the day. In practice, the Diet had little impact on the laws of the constituent states of the empire. »
• « The Estates General were a meeting of representatives of the three estates - clergy, nobility and all others - at which the French king could ask for tax revenues in exchange for various negotiations and promises (often a promise not to ask for more taxes in the future). This had not happened for more than 150 years, and therefore no living Frenchman had any experience of what to expect. »
• « Before the estates met, many voters and their representatives drew up lists of grievances demanding relief from unfair financial burdens imposed by the nobility, better representation for citizens and peasants, and royal intervention on behalf of the people of France, among other things. »
• « The problem for the political stability of the kingdom was that French society had changed enormously since the last meeting of the Estates General. Many of the representatives of the Third Estate considered themselves representatives of France itself, as the vast majority of the population was made up of commoners and laymen. »
• « Nothing could have mattered less to the diplomatic representatives present at the Congress of Vienna than the 'national identity' of the people living in the territories that were divided up and distributed like slices of cake to the victors - the inhabitants of north-eastern Italy were now subjects of the Austrian king, the whole of Poland was divided between Russia and Prussia, and Britain remained secure not only in its growing world empire, but in its possession of the whole of Ireland. »