depute

How To Use depute In A Sentence

• The chairman has deputed his voting power to the vice - chairman.
• Now, 11 years later, he was the Chief Commissioner of the hill State of Manipur, and had willy-nilly to depute election officers and to supervise the polling and the counting.
• I begged him to publish his discovery, but he preferred to depute the task to me.
• She deputed the bookkeeping to me while he was away.
• Aussitót il envoya un députe à Dâher pour l'inviter à faire mettre ces femmes en liberté. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
• L'appui d'un député bloquiste au Hamas signifie-t-il que le Bloc Québécois considère le Hamas comme étant plus légitime que le Parti Républicain? Antagoniste.net
• From these dispositions it must happen, of course, that the intention of investing one person or a few with the whole powers of government, and the notion of deputed authority or representation, are ideas that never could have entered their imaginations. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
• Yes," replied the townsman, "I am deputed by the people of St. Michel to tell you that they are good servants of the king, but that they do not mean to have any gabel, or marks on pewter or tobacco, or stamped papers, or _yreffe d'arbitrage_ (arbitration-clerk's fee). A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
• It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself. Where's the show?
• On the press benches those deputed to chronicle the roll-call of the accused had adopted a glassy-eyed fascination with the process, scanning the lists of handlers of stolen goods for genuine firestarters, mostly in vain. England riots: justice grinds on as courts sit through the night