Meanings of receive the deputation in English

The answer came that the Pope would not receive the deputation.

I say, mind you're in in time to receive the deputation.

I am come to ask you, Marie, to receive the deputation of Chatelet.

Swift, at the time of receiving this Resolution lay very ill in bed, and was unable to receive the deputation in person.

At a quarter past one I was duly on hand at Mr. Blodgett's to receive the deputation from the Chamber of Commerce.

Bevis went back with the jay to his seat on the moss under the oak, and there sat down to receive the deputation.

The physician, who was consulted as to her state, said that there might only be sufficient time for Jasmin to receive the deputation.

The President received the deputation in the White House Offices.

Lord Melbourne received the deputation from Derby, a large and respectable one, here on Monday last.

It was in the mayor's private room that the president of the Provisional Commission received the deputation from the new town.

The appointed hour had arrived for Gotzkowsky to receive the deputations, and he betook himself to the hall next the garden.

Lincoln received the deputation from the religious bodies of Chicago, bearing a Memorial for the immediate issue of such a Proclamation.

The prince was not to be found; but his sister, who received the deputation, undertook that he should duly appear in Paris.

The king received the deputation favorably, and said that he would stop at Windsor, and there receive the propositions which might be sent him.

His Excellency must be thanked for the unfailing courtesy with which he received the deputation and the courteous language in which his reply was couched.

He received the deputation with the impassivity of a stone image, vouchsafing no answer to their respectful address until it had been several times repeated.