However, a rather small group of delegates led by John Adams believed that war was inevitable.

These delegates, led by Pedro Paterno, formed the Partido Federal (Federalist Party or the Federalistas) on December 23, 1900.

Other delegates, led by Oliver Perry Temple and John Netherland, rejected this as too extreme, and adopted a resolution petitioning the legislature for separation without threatening violent resistance.

Adoption of the platform caused some western delegates, led by Colorado Senator Henry M. Teller, to walk out of the convention.

Connecticut's delegates, led by Gov. M. Jodi Rell, are heavily suburban, with only one representative from any of the state's five biggest cities, Jo McKenzie of Hartford.

However, a smaller group of delegates led by John Adams believed that war was inevitable, but remained quiet.

Some delegates, led by those representing small island nations, had sought to impose immediate new obligations on industrial countries, but they were rebuffed.

The Assembly's work leading to adopting the resolution began in 2006, when several delegates of the assembly, led by British Labour politician Andrew McIntosh, suggested to adopt a recommendation on this theme.

In 1952 he was sent to China as a delegate of the first Indian cultural delegation from independent India, led by Smt.

In the end, the Soviet delegates, led by Anatoly Kim, a novelist, issued apologies.