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Quotes about delegations (15 Quotes)
The government is taking a very strong position against a transition to the U.N., and that is new. Sudan has sent delegations to many countries in the world in order to plead its case.
I think we should form a European influenza task force that brings together all our knowledge, so that if you have outbreaks in the future you could form delegations to work together with local experts in the area where it occurs.
Both leaders in the delegations understand the time constraints we're under and are working through these issues in a way that this can get done before the president has to leave,
Home rule gave city and county councils the authority to redistrict themselves, but it did not do that for school boards. The delegation, through the General Assembly, is the sole authority for changing school board district lines. A lot of delegations don't even let the school boards look at their plan until it's drawn up and done.
We will continue to communicate through existing channels. We may send delegations abroad.
The one-person, one-vote cases are the example of the judiciary being the most activist ever . . . it led to the redrawing of districts for almost every representative institute in the United States, from the smallest town council to congressional delegations.
The Virginia delegation's recommended bill of rights included the following That the people have a right to keep and bear arms that a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
There is a strong sense among all six delegations that we really want to make progress,
I have met with the two delegations and it is my conviction that the delegations do realize the importance of the moment, ... I think that they will be working constructively and in the remaining week (and) they will come to an agreement on the remaining political questions.
We were advising delegations to advise their governments to have instructions back to them and to be prepared to vote as early as Tuesday.
I have made it very clear and I think the other delegations have made it clear that nobody is prepared to fund the light water reactors and that they should rather focus on the elements that are on the table...
I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.
People were very cautious, to say the least, because of his reputation as a tough guy who didn't like the U.N. ... In fact, I was the only one who said that Bolton was an intelligent man who could be creative and constructive and wouldn't go around bullying delegations.
There is a report sent to delegations, ... There was no report on the table. There's nothing exceptional or extraordinary about it. It's not like ministers of foreign affairs lie awake at night thinking about a report on East Jerusalem. They get lots of reports.