Example sentences of "of representatives of " in BNC.

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1 By mid-century , responsibility for burial in urban areas was being progressively removed from the vestry and parish into the hands of representatives of the ratepayers .
2 It was also suggested that some sort of ‘ Irish dimension ’ ( to borrow the term of the 1980s ) be institutionalized by the creation of a Council of Ireland made up of representatives of the Westminster and Dublin parliaments and members from the to-be-created Stormont ‘ Assembly ’ .
3 There are a handful of representatives of well-known political families , like Nicholas Soames and the present Winston of the Churchills , the Douglases Hogg and Hurd , who are both the sons and grandsons of MPs , while the father of Sir Charles and Peter Morrison ( ‘ Pinky and Perky ’ ) was Lord Margadale , who had been chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee in the fifties and sixties .
4 Great power in Britain , in 1880 , was still in the hands of the aristocracy and Gladstone 's cabinet was full of representatives of the Whig tradition , but some such as Joseph Chamberlain , were more radical and anxious to change the situation .
5 In September 1948 , a committee , chosen by the assembly , drew up the Basic Law which laid the foundation of a constitution , the main legislative body ( Bundestag ) with nearly five hundred members elected every four years , and an upper house ( Bundesrat ) of forty-five members composed of representatives of the state government .
6 There is considerable local liaison and there is a support group that meets regularly with the welfare worker , consisting of representatives of JCWI , the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service ( UKIAS ) , NACRO , Hounslow Law Centre , GLCABS and the probation Service .
7 In Partnership areas , a committee was created consisting of representatives of local and central government , the health authorities , the police , voluntary groups , and so on , chaired by a central-government minister .
8 These are established through national joint councils , consisting of representatives of employers and employees , supplemented by local variations and agreements .
9 In early 1940 , government contracts started and in June the Ministry of Transport held a meeting with Railway Executive Officers the outcome of which was a Committee of representatives of the Ministries of War , Transport , Supply , Aircraft and Production , Labour , the Admiralty and the Railway Executive Committee entitled The Committee for the use of Railway Workshops for Government work .
10 This team consists of representatives of the Local Education Authority , Training and Enterprise Council and Partnership .
11 The planning and arrangements for handling any emergency depend upon an accurate and rapid evaluation of any accident and its progression , and hence on sufficient accurate radiation monitoring on and off site , the speedy collection and analysis of data , and good communications , together with arrangements for the assembly and accurate briefing of representatives of the media .
12 The report recommends that the number of representatives of public interest groups sitting on the new committee be reduced in favour of more process engineers from industry and union representatives , so the goodwill and trust of the public could also be jeopardised .
13 This period saw the beginning of attempts by conferences of representatives of states to draw up treaties or conventions on different aspects of the law of armed conflict , what is referred to as the jus in bello , that is , the rules of how war should be waged if it should break out .
14 The issue brings together the main papers presented at the first Latin American consultation of representatives of theological seminaries who met together in July 1990 to discuss the role of communication and theology in their institutions .
15 When we consider the impact of state welfare on personal saving , the social base of the NCOAP — or National Conference of Representatives of Friendly Societies , Trade Unions , Associations , Federations and Councils , to use the full title — lends a telling undercurrent of motive .
16 This committee was composed of representatives of producers , employees and consumers ; it too , however , could not be much of a check on High Authority action if the two bodies moved on to a collision course — something , in fact , which never occurred .
17 But this does not mean that nuclear war has ceased to be an instrument of politics , as is claimed by the overwhelming majority of representatives of pacifist , anti-war movements in the bourgeois world .
18 Although there is some variation from area to area , each committee is made up of representatives of the key agencies who carry sufficient authority to act on their agency 's behalf .
19 ‘ The truth is that the station was meeting its obligation to cover the views of representatives of legal opposition parties , as well as of the families of military officials detained after the coup attempt , ’ said Mauricio Brunner , Coordinator of Centro Guarura .
20 The regulation also sets up a Committee composed of representatives of the member states to advise the Commission on drafting the uniform document for the licence and on revising the definition of a cultural object .
21 On 15 March a joint meeting of representatives of the ECA and State Department was held in Washington to discuss the Korean economy .
22 Payment would be made only if the unemployment was involuntary ; disputed claims would be referred to newly appointed local committees consisting of representatives of capital and labour ; workers would be entitled to refuse work under conditions inferior to the norm for their occupation .
23 It preferred to insist that industrial democracy should be imposed by a means that had to be in principle unsustainable : that is , by the appointment of representatives of trade unions to the boards of directors of industrial enterprises .
24 This informal guidance is given by the Defence , Press and Broadcasting Committee which is composed of representatives of government and media .
25 Almost thirty years later , in January 1254 , when Henry III tried to tax the clergy through the prelates at a parliament or great council , he was reminded that the assent of representatives of all the clergy was necessary .
26 First , the tribunals to which the cases are taken are almost entirely composed of representatives of that group which benefits from discrimination against women , that is , men .
27 Essentially , their form was one of a council composed of an equal number of representatives of employers and organised workmen , sometimes with an independent chairman and normally with inbuilt arbitration in case of disputes .
28 In August 1917 he organised an international conference in London of representatives of all seamen , both officers and men , " of all nations except those of the enemy " which resolved that German seafarers were equally responsible with the German authorities for their " inhuman conduct of submarine warfare " and demanded both reparations and a boycott of German seamen themselves when the war was over .
29 At this time a new Central Council for Local Government Finance was established , composed of representatives of the government and of the local authorities .
30 The 1984 Labour Conference rejected a plan for the choice to be made by individual members of the party in each constituency instead of the decision being made by a meeting of representatives of wards and affiliated organizations .
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