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Each of the 24 directors can designate another member agency to vote in its stead at the Water Authority board meetings if they can’t make it.

A professional conservator has acted in his stead in the meantime.

When Adele won Best Solo Pop Performance, Sediuk stormed the stage, attempting to accept the award in Adele's stead.

Rather than saying a prayer, he asked those with ears to hear to say a prayer in his stead.

In his stead today is Mohamed Morsi, a member of a party whose slogan is “Islam is the solution.”

But would that modus operandi of old hold him in good stead with the “three-ring policy circus” he faces?

In the world of endless second chances, he will have to revive that plan or offer another one in its stead.

Certainly in that year I learned much and acquired from my chief business habits which have stood me in good stead since.

Nor would it be just for you to forgive him because another son of yours was willing to be punished in his stead.

Organisation was his first work, and his former experience of irregular warfare in Poland stood him in good stead.

He did come,—a big, gran' man, wid a look which made me glad Miss Dory was in heaven 'stead of livin' wid him.

Thus, though King James be at last excluded, his Subjects reign in his stead.