When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

This was a continuation of a good idea which was first tried out Saturday night when the Eddie Stack group, also local talent, went on first.

Thus, giving grades and promotions based only on an individual's performance relative to a small local group, as is common, may reduce cooperative behaviors in the group.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

The urban areas of Canberra are organised into a hierarchy of districts, town centres, group centres, local suburbs as well as other industrial areas and villages.

Most suburbs have their own local shops, and are located close to a larger shopping centre serving a group of suburbs.

Community facilities and schools are often also located near local shops or group shopping centres.

In the Heathen movements, a kindred is a local worship group and organizational unit.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

Early sources are not clear but various groups of Christian communities would have had a group of college or presbyter-overseers functioning as leaders of the local churches.

It is difficult to describe the parties and politics of Judah in this period because of the lack of historical source, but there seem to have been three important groups involved: the returnees from the exile who claimed the reconstruction with the support of Cyrus I ; " the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin "; and a third group, " people of the land ," who seem to be local opposition against the returnees building the Temple in Jerusalem.

Very soon after this he formed a group of equally enthusiastic youngsters and managed to get quite a few local bookings for his band.

# Communities of culture: range from the local clique, sub-culture, ethnic group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilisation, or the global community cultures of today.

* Artin conductor, an ideal or number associated to a representation of a Galois group of a local or global field

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

From the CMB data it is seen that our local group of galaxies ( the galactic cluster that includes the Solar System's Milky Way Galaxy ) appears to be moving at 627 ± 22 km / s relative to the reference frame of the CMB ( also called the CMB rest frame, or the frame of reference in which there is no motion through the CMB ) in the direction of galactic longitude l

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

A group of Quito's leading citizens followed suit, and on August 10, 1809, they seized power in the name of Ferdinand from the local representatives, whom they accused of preparing to recognize Joseph Bonaparte.

The Water Keepers Alliance is a good example of such a group that sticks to local questions.

The show's hosts are a group of local technology aficionados, many with industry experience, who offer light-hearted commentary on current news topics and events while delving deeper into specific areas each week with special guest interviews.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

On 20 January 2009, an umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon ( LKP ) led by Élie Domota called for a € 200 ($ 260 USD ) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.

Unperturbed and hoping to learn more of Rosicrucianism, Gardner joined the group in charge of running the theatre, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, and began attending meeting's held in their local ashram.

Education4Crowland, a group of residents and members of the Parish, District and County Councils, has been formed to help fight for the retention of secondary education within the town and the creation of a Free School.

The Council declared the Basel group heretics and excommunicated them ; and the superiority of the Pope over the Councils was affirmed in the bull Etsi non dubitemus of 20 April 1441.

The London group of the Anarchist Federation also produced a set of pamphlets under the imprint of Stormy Petrel which includes The Friends of Durruti: Towards a Fresh Revolution ; A Brief Flowering of Freedom: The Hungarian Revolution 1956 ; Errico Malatesta: Anarchism and Violence ; and The Italian Factory Councils and The Anarchists.

Just over a month after the 2004 election, Camejo was elected as one of California's delegates to the National Committee of the Green Party and established the GDI, " Greens for Democracy and Independence ," a cadre group within the larger Green Party of California that ran candidates for local Green County Councils, another organizational effort that failed to sustain itself.

The Commission agreed that the Halton group and Warrington were to become District Councils within Cheshire, as they were detached from Lancashire by the two new Metropolitan Counties controlling the territory to the north.

At this point, Lucien Bonaparte apparently slipped out of the chamber and told the soldiers guarding the Councils that the majority of the Five Hundred were being terrorized by a group of deputies brandishing daggers.

PACT-Pewsey Area Community Trust-a group of local people and organisations supported by the County and Parish Councils who are interested in improving the economic, social and environmental well-being of the Pewsey area.

PACT-Pewsey Area Community Trust-is a group of local people and organisations supported by the County and Parish Councils who are interested in improving the economic, social and environmental well-being of the Pewsey area.

It provides a home for the Partnership at Rainton Meadows, and is represented on the Partnership's steering group, alongside representatives from Natural England, the Environment Agency, the Forestry Commission, Northumbrian Water, the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, the North East Biodiversity Forum, and the County, City and Borough Councils within the area.

Other appointments have included group economic adviser, Barclays Bank ( 1989 – 91 ), and membership of the Advisory Board for Research Councils ( 1990 – 91 ).

In practice, while both this group and the High Council in Zion were Presiding High Councils, their jurisdictions were divided with one as “ standing ” ministers over the Stakes of Zion, and the other “ traveling ” outside of the Stakes.

It is a non-profit group created on 28 May 2003, consisting of 25 CRCMs ( Conseil Regional du Culte Musulman or Regional Councils of the Muslim Faith ).

Like many of its contemporaries, Ballyhea Community Councils evolved in the 1970s from a Munitir Na Tíre group.

The leadership within is a structure is a series of Councils on the local, regional, and a global Apostolic Council ; the group is also overseen within these councils by a fluid number of teachers, deacons, deaconesses, elders and apostles.

George Simon, exec director of Danny Thomas A. L. S. A. C. ( Aiding Leukemia Stricken American Children ) fund raising group, filled me in on the low-down phonies who are using phones to solicit funds for Danny's St. Jude hospital in Memphis.

Moreover, the special fund (€ 80, 189, 123 ) was removed from the asset and co-currently for the equity as scheduled, made Roma group had a negative equity of € 8. 795 million on 30 June 2007.

Valuation risk refers to the concern that the net asset value of investments may be inaccurate ; capacity risk can arise from placing too much money into one particular strategy, which may lead to fund performance deterioration ; and concentration risk may arise if a fund has too much exposure to a particular investment, sector, trading strategy, or group of correlated funds.

Mandatory registration of hedge fund advisers was supported by the largest hedge fund trade group, the Managed Funds Association ( MFA ), which announced its support for registration in testimony to a US congressional committee on May 7, 2009.

Lackey founded a stealth computer security start-up with a small group of people well known in the computer security community and secured funding from Ron Conway and a well known venture capital fund.

* Wellington Fund, balanced mutual fund from the Vanguard group

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the Nixon campaign.

Private investigators can also be used to perform due diligence for an investor who may be considering investing money with a investment group, fund manager or other high risk business or investment venture.

Aware of his destitution, one group of friends organised a stipend designed to support the completion of Khovanschina ; another group organised a similar fund to pay him to complete The Fair at Sorochyntsi.

Zagon wants to use drug money to fund an invasion of Nicaragua, and Senator Ernest Harrison ( Joe D. Lauck ) puts the heat on Zagon and his group to reveal their undercover operations.

In April 2008, Robertson pleaded with the MP3tunes user group to help fund the legal defense regarding the EMI lawsuit.

Throughout the 1980s the General Command actively cooperated with the nascent Hezbollah paramilitary group ( made mostly of Shia Muslims ) dedicated to armed struggle against Israel, as well as with Syria and Iran, both of whom fund and arm Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

He persuaded a group of like-minded investors to fund the construction of a railway line from King's Lynn to the town: the railway would bring tourists and visitors to Hunstanton.

*(( chama, East Africa Kenya )) A Swahili word meaning a group or organization for fund raising i. e. Merry-go-round fund raising group

The St David's Penknife Club is a group of people dedicated to voluntary fund raising for local groups and charities.

In the same year the non-profit group Sultana Projects, Inc. was formed by Swain and supporters to fund construction of the ship.

These special events are sponsored by the fund raising group Terre Hill Days Committee.

The proceeds would have been used to fund a town economic development group.

Buildings may collect a small fee, known as the floor fund to pay for the group.