Representatives

Examples

• The quarrel between the representatives of the two interests is easily explicable historically. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Quite a number of the American representatives brought their wives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As the sole remaining representatives of their decayed family, the persons of both were almost sacred in her eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My son is one of the last representatives of two old families. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They stood the representatives of their races. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Now, all these were more or less ancestral to living forms, and all have brains relatively much smaller than their living representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The representatives of New York could with justice drink the health of the young inventor, whose system is one of the greatest boons the city has ever had conferred upon it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• MUHLENBERG, _Speaker of the House of Representatives_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There stood the two children representatives of the two extremes of society. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But an _internal_ tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The representatives of the Barnacle Chorus dropped in next, and Mr Merdle's physician dropped in next. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The German Diet was like the States-General or like a parliament without the presence of elected representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were no newspapers,[242] and there was practically no use of elected representatives in the popular assemblies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It wants to have a House of Commons which is not weighted with nominees of the landed class, but with representatives of the other interests. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But their representatives had very little more than a frock coat and a slogan as equipment for the task. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The people have been betrayed by their representatives again and again. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The plebeian power to stop business by the veto of their representatives, the tribunes, was fully exercised. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He painted a large exhibition picture for the National House of Representatives, but it was not purchased by the government. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But why shouldn't the representatives of a power that governed a sixth of the world have a few comforts? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There were a lot of representatives from the East, and a private car was hired. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Senate refused to ratify the covenant, and the first meeting of the League Council was held therefore without American representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was an assembly of the representatives of three orders, the nobles, the clergy, and the Third Estate, the commons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Representatives who serve some majorities may in reality order the nation about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Editor: Lora