deputation

They came to him in the afternoon, a deputation of three.

The deputation of five men from the village was already there.

"But not every one; a deputation of two or four people."

The officials are government employees working on deputation with the mission.

The city administration sent a deputation of 4 people to Amsterdam.

"You know I have to organize a deputation to leave tomorrow."

The deputation is nearly here so we'll go and meet them."

A deputation of women went to management but were not satisfied by their response.

Every man who has ever headed a deputation to a minister knows this.

During the next six years Brown was engaged in deputation and circuit work.

This deputation seemed somehow to be a different class to those who generally came to visit us.

It took an hour for the deputation to reach the manor house.

A deputation was selected to go to the Japanese headquarters.

She might have been checked by the fact that the deputation was so silent.

The deputation stood and watched him until he had sunk under the hill.

During the same year, he visited Britain for the first time as the leader of a deputation.

The deputation looked into Sulla's face, then at the floor.

"There is a man who would dare, if he were put to it," thought the Deputation to himself.

In the intervals between its sessions the king was watched by a Deputation.

He at once accompanied back to the Hall the deputation sent to conduct him.

A small deputation was emerging from the grove and coming down the beach.

He was a member of the deputation which on 6 July 1647 brought up the charge against the eleven members.

On April 21 the deputation, with their case carefully prepared, appeared before the court.

Thus it was that the deputation never got to see Sulla.

The deputation grouped itself about the bed and shuffled its feet.