apostolic delegate

“Welcome, welcome to Brooklyn,” the senator sang as each delegate descended from the bus.
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The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll.
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Shaw put himself right alongside the line and took a minute to shake hands and greet each delegate.
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Under the Soviet regime, people preferred to delegate power and decision-making to others—Stalin, for example.
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Virginia State Delegate Barbara Comstock is the ur-Republican.
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One delegate said that he found fully one third of the men in his wards professing Christians.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
A delegate of the Christian Commission sat down to write a letter for him to his wife, to be sent by a flag of truce.
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The Tallest Delegate was called smartly to order; he rebelled, but when threatened with the sergeant-at-arms subsided amid jeers.
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The delegate from Marion, like the mysterious person from Pulaski, was a stranger to state conventions.
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The next morning the ejected delegate sailed for London, but soon went to Paris where he helped to form radical groups.
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British Dictionary definitions for apostolic delegate

apostolic delegate

noun

RC Church a representative of the pope sent to countries that do not have full or regular diplomatic relations with the Holy See

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