deputation

How To Use deputation In A Sentence

• The managing director agreed to receive a deputation from the factory.
• December 7, a municipal, at the head of a deputation from the Commune, came to read to the king a decree which ordered him to take from the prisoners "knives, razors, scissors, penknives, and all other sharp instruments of which prisoners presumed criminal are deprived; and to make a most minute search of their persons and of their apartments. The Ruin of a Princess
• On the 6th May he dined with Her Majesty at Marlborough House; on the 7th he received a deputation from the inhabitants of his native town of Whittlesey, who were desirous of making him a presentation. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
• She proposed that a deputation from the council should meet with the Minister for Education to stress the importance of the need for new schools in the town.
• Nikolai Petrovich told various anecdotes about what he called his farming career, talked about the forthcoming government measures, about committees, deputations, the need to introduce new machinery, etc. Fathers and Sons
• The managing director agreed to receive a deputation from the factory.
• You remember the almost rough 'No!' with which, reiteratedly, he met the suggestions of the deputation from Jerusalem that sought to induce him to say that he was more than he knew himself to be, and how he stuck by that infinitely humble and beautiful saying, 'I am a voice' -- that is all. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.
• The deputation saluted, returned to the fallen-out contingent, which gravely unpiled its arms and marched back to its lines, amid a little desultory cheering from some few by-standers who realised what was taking place. On the Heels of De Wet
• We and many other of the Suffrage Societies were received in deputation by Mr. Asquith, only to be told the case over again. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences