39 collocations for delegated

Girolamo Savonarola took advantage of this state of affairs to urge that the people had never delegated their power to a balia which did not abuse the trust.

It shall be lawful for the League of Nations to delegate its authority, control, or administration of any such people or territory to some single State or organized agency which it may designate and appoint as its agent or mandatory; but whenever or wherever possible or feasible the agent or mandatory so appointed shall be nominated or approved by the autonomous people or territory.

Lady Kirkbank's was rather a fast set; and had he been allowed to choose it was not to Lady Kirkbank that he would have delegated his grandmother's duty.

There is an increasing disposition to group solitary children and to delegate their care to specially qualified people, and this is likely to increase, because the high earning power of young women will incline them to entrust their children to others, and because a shortage of men and an excess of widows will supply other women willing to undertake that care.

" Before taking leave of the "Principles of Sociology," we should caution the reader against a misconception that might seem, at first sight, to find some warrant in the following remark of a sympathetic reviewer: "Like Aristotle, he [Mr. Spencer] has had to delegate large portions of his work to be done for him by others."

Mr. Jeffrey does ill when he delegates his important functions into such hands as Mr. Hazlitt.

If the slaves numbered several score the master and his family might live in leisure comparative or complete, while delegating the field supervision to an overseer, aided perhaps by one or more slave foremen.

Gradually the cloud of birds resolved itself into a number of open triangles, each of which with its deeper-voiced leader took its way inland; as if they trusted to their general sense of direction while flying over the water, but on coming to encounter the dangers of the land, preferred to delegate the responsibility.

To Mr. Furness was delegated the work of sealing them.

Some planters distributed their new purchases among the seasoned households, thus delegating the task largely to the veteran slaves.

Mythology delegated the government of the world to inferior deities, the subjects of an omnipotent Fate or Necessity; while, to show how extremes meet, mere science delegates it to chemical and physiological agencies, and ends, like the mythic cosmogonies, in some irrepressible spontaneous impulse of matter to develope itself in the ever-changing forms of the visible universe.

She would have preferred to die rather than to delegate her authority to another housewifeand such a housewife too!

As it was inconvenient, when Rome had become a very great city, to convene the comitia for the trial of offenders, the expedient was adopted of delegating the jurisdiction of the people to persons invested with temporary authority, called quaestors.

Leaving out the constitutional question whether such a book is in any sense law at allfor in all probability no legislature can delegate to any three gentlemen the power to make laws, even one law, much more all the laws of the Stateleaving out the constitutional question.

I guessed urgency, otherwise Rebecca would have delegated Lucy.

The universal state described above would be an association of sovereign states, each delegating a sufficient measure of its sovereignty to enable the World Federation to act as a responsible planet-wide government.

It was the duty of all to report illnesses in the membership, and the function of the official mother to delegate members for the nursing.

Only about twenty deities are alluded to in the monumental records of either nation, and they are supposed to have represented the sun, the moon, the stars, and various other powers, to which were delegated by the unseen and occult supreme deity the oversight of this world.

This is a country of surprises, and if the alder tree towers on high, the dwarf chestnut or chinkapin here delegates to the mountains the pains of struggling toward the heavens, and, contented with its lowly estate, freely offers to the various "small deer" of the forest its horde of sweet, three-cornered nuts.

Therefore cheerfully delegating preservation your virtue while in Paris to Mlle.

Leaving out the constitutional question whether such a book is in any sense law at allfor in all probability no legislature can delegate to any three gentlemen the power to make laws, even one law, much more all the laws of the Stateleaving out the constitutional question.

"The married man frequently delegates his soul to his better half," continued Roundjacket, rising with his subject; "all his independence is gone.

The question is not about trusting "us English Catholics," but the Pope, and the Roman Congregation, and those to whom the Roman authorities delegate their sanction and give their countenance.

"The married man frequently delegates his soul to his better half," continued Roundjacket, rising with his subject; "all his independence is gone.

a nation may have a master even if it has no kinga nation may be called a republic, and yet be not freeWherever centralization exists, there the nation has either sold or lent, either alienated or delegated its sovereignty; and wherever this is done, the nation has a masterand he who has a master is of course not his own master.

39 collocations for  delegated