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Nearly 200 nations were due to agree how these landmark findings should guide efforts to protect nature but some countries "did not want to acknowledge them", the French delegate added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

It’s that a woman who has paid to delegate a household task may find herself unexpectedly responsible for supervising its completion.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

A two-person management committee would assume day-to-day responsibilities, with Overdeck and Siegel each appointing their own delegate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In real life, he prefers to delegate the unpleasant task to an underling.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

From this one can extract another notable observation: princes must delegate distasteful tasks to others, while pleasant ones they should keep for themselves.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Ceferin informed delegates of his decision at a meeting of all 55 national association chiefs in Berlin.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see the plight of island nations surrounded by a rising ocean.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

As Guilfoyle got ready for her speech in a side room at the Thessaloniki conference earlier this month, Marafatsos poked his head out of the room to talk to delegates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As numerous delegates exited the room, Netanyahu called out: “If there are any other moral cowards who have not yet left the hall, please do so now.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The conference was attended by 2,244 voting delegates who were democratically elected at ANC branches at home and abroad.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Seabright found that the revision made no meaningful difference because those powers could not have been delegated to Essayli in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The licences are issued by the Football Association, though the process itself is delegated to the Premier League.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The position is usually delegated to a junior minister, the paper explains.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Humphrey’s made “independent agencies more tempting repositories for delegated powers that the President could not access with quite such ease,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

I delegated what I could to Melissa and other members of my transition team.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Wasn’t it true, a juror asked, that he had taken to delegating tasks to subordinates in recent years?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Call it CEO parenting: treating the modern family as a small enterprise and delegating low-joy tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

"Our historical experience has taught us that delegating vital matters... to international judicial bodies has been detrimental to our sovereignty and our territorial integrity," he said.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

"Militaries adopt AI to speed up processes such as target identification. But delegating life-and-death decisions to machines poses profound ethical and human rights risks," said Patrick Wilcken of Amnesty International.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

This morning Dad has taken the liberty of delegating tasks through passive-aggressive Post-it notes hidden like Easter eggs all over the house.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman