`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich ; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.

As the city's population — and public college enrollment — grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs.

They also failed to take Trinity College, which was located in the heart of the city centre and which was defended by only a handful of armed unionist students.

Only a handful of the cops are honest, though frequently the wealthy of the city bribe the corrupt members of the police into performing their duty ( usually as a result of some crime being committed ( or threatened ) against a member of their family ).

The area now covered by the city was originally the site of a handful of Māori villages ( kāinga ), including Pukete, Miropiko and Kirikiriroa (" long stretch of gravel '), from which the city takes its Māori name.

The Perrine Bridge, which spans the Snake River Canyon immediately north of the city, is one of only a handful of artificial structures worldwide where BASE jumping is legal.

Although city hall, the city ’ s new post office ( constructed in 2005 ), and a handful of businesses still operate on Ferry, Dowling Street has become the city's main fairway because of its eventual connection to neighboring communities and U. S. Highway 31.

The city is one of the handful in the nation that used to operate a government-run cable television and telephone service, as well as being a fiber-to-the-neighborhood Internet service provider.

Sea Gate is a private community, one of only a handful of neighborhoods in New York City where the streets are owned by the residents and not the city ; Sea Gate and the Breezy Point Cooperative are the only city neighborhoods cordoned off by a fence and gate houses.

With the decline of Zhou power, the Yellow River drainage basin was divided into hundreds of small, autonomous states, most of them consisting of a single city, though a handful of multi-city states, particularly those on the periphery, had power and opportunity to expand outward.

* The city ’ s carnival includes a handful of traditional giants that take part in the festivities.

Except on a handful of occasions where the city government has been suspended for not striking a rate ( a level of local tax ), Dublin has had a mayor for nearly eight hundred years.

Having thoroughly looted Ayutthaya, the Burmese did not seem to show serious interest in holding down the capital of Siam, since they left only a handful of troops under General Suki to control the shattered city.

Similarly, a handful of parishes have been granted city status by letters patent: the council of such a parish is known as " city council " and the chairman is entitled to be known as the " city mayor ".

Several small indoor shopping centers, most with only a handful of stores, exist throughout the city.

In England, churches survive largely intact from every century since the 7th, and in considerable numbers for the later ones — the city of Norwich alone has 40 medieval churches — but of the dozens of royal palaces none survive from earlier than the 11th century, and only a handful of remnants from the rest of the period.

Though the Hornets played all but a handful of games during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons in Oklahoma City — and even temporarily changed the team's name to the New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets, the basketball team's ownership insisted they would return to the recovering city as soon as possible.

Cut off from the main body of the army, he is forced to take command of a handful of surviving but mutinous riflemen ( including Patrick Harper ), while protecting a small party of English missionaries and assisting Spanish Partisans in the temporary liberation of the city of Santiago de Compostela ( Sharpe's Rifles ).

Within the city, the Liberals still held their own with the NDP capturing a handful of polls, one which includes the University of New Brunswick, and a couple along Parkside Drive.

As there was no sign of her doing so, Burghley, Leicester, and a handful of other privy councillors decided to proceed with Mary's execution in the interest of the state.

The borough council was initially controlled by independents, with a handful of Labour party councillors forming an opposition group.

But perhaps because his playing was so difficult to copy, only a handful of musicians — such as Oscar Peterson, Johnny Costa, Johnny Guarnieri, Adam Makowicz, Luther G. Williams, Steven Mayer and Christopher Jordan, and, outside of the usual roster of jazz pianists, Andre Previn — have attempted to seriously emulate or challenge Tatum.

A handful of shows, including some episodes of Doctor Who and most of the first series of Adam Adamant Lives !, were deliberately telerecorded for ease of editing rather than being videotaped.

Unusually for a current affairs programme, WIA's standard format was as a voice-over documentary without a regular reporter although a handful of WIA journalists did appear in front of camera, including Chris Kelly, Gordon Burns, John Pilger, Gus Macdonald, Anthony Wilson, Nick Davies, Adam Holloway, Stuart Prebble ( who later became the programme's editor ), Mike Walsh, David Taylor and Donal MacIntyre.

KOA also broadcasts a handful of syndicated weekend shows, including The Mutual Fund Show with Adam Bold, Brian Kilmeade and Friends and Bill Cunningham.

In the intervening time, Vaughan made a handful of recordings for the Crown and Gotham labels and began performing regularly at Cafe Society Downtown, an integrated club in New York's Sheridan Square.

He also published a handful of poems, including a sonnet about his frustrated love for a fellow student, and a piece of short fiction in the school newspaper, the Deerfield Scroll.

He later begins his experiment with a handful of fellow scientists and reporters looking on, as well as Peter and Octavius ' sponsor, Harry Osborn.

Before the schism, Wesley had as accredited preachers only a handful of fellow Anglican priests who shared his view of the need to take the gospel to the people where they were.

Purpose has co-written songs with a handful of fellow songwriters, including short story writer and author Robert Morgan Fisher, as well as the author-songwriter-photographer Paul Zollo, with whom Purpose has written many songs, including " The Ghost of Crazy Horse ," " Baltimore ," " Koreatown ," and " Crooked Line ," which tells the story of Chavez Ravine, and was the title song of Purpose's 2001 album.

Galen has " become one " with his tech by discovering the technomages ' Shadow legacy ( a fact known only to a handful of technomages ), learning how to interact with his technology directly rather than through the complicated spell systems used by his fellow mages ; while this knowledge makes him immensely powerful, it also makes him a very unsettling force to the mage leadership, as no other mage is nearly powerful enough to flay him ( forcibly remove his implants ).

In Glasgow, he played alongside fellow Dane Peter Løvenkrands, with whom he became good friends, and he played a handful of games in his first time at Rangers, including a few outings in the UEFA Champions League.

On April 4, exhausted and often sleepy government members inadvertently let one of the NDP amendments pass, and the handful of residents of Cafon Court in Etobicoke were granted the right to a public consultation on the bill, although the government subsequently nullified this with an amendment of its own.

Though the CCF / NDP has a long history in Nova Scotia, it was unable to break the two-party system and win more than a handful of seats ( if any ) in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly until the 1990s.

In 2008, the Liberals won most of their support on Cape Breton Island, whereas the mainland portion of the riding voted Conservative with a few Liberal and NDP pockets The Conservatives and the NDP both won a small handful of polls on the island, and the Greens won a poll containing Judique.

The NDP also won a small handful of polls, scattered around the riding.

The NDP only won a small handful of polls in the centre part of the city, which was also where the Greens did well.

It was originally initiated by a handful of neighbourhood watch members from a few coloured Cape Town townships who decided to organize public demonstrations to pressure the government to fight the illegal drug trade and gangsterism more effectively.

Very few EOP ( Executive Office of the President ) officials are required to be confirmed by the Senate, although there are a handful of exceptions to this rule ( e. g., the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the United States Trade Representative ).

Kleck showed that no more than a handful of the homicides that Kellermann studied were committed with guns belonging to the victim or members of his or her household, and thus it was implausible that victim household gun ownership contributed to their homicide.

In 2006 the party announced that it would disband itself: it owed a large debt to the Ministry of Home Affairs, who had lent them money for the 2003 elections, and only a handful of paying members were left.

However, other people including Andrew Bartlett of the Australian Democrats, sports writer Peter FitzSimons and members of the hip hop outfit The Herd expressed concern that the flag was being misused by a handful of aggressive attendees in a jingoist manner, and that rock concerts were not the appropriate venue to be waving a flag.

Fusako Shigenobu had left Japan with only a handful of dedicated people, but her group is said to have had about 40 members at its height and was from the Lod airport massacre on one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world.

There is also a small non-denominational church in the community supported by a handful of loyal members.

Services are provided by a full-time administrator, twenty full-time police officers, a ten-person public works department and a handful of other staff members.

) When the new Parliament of Southern Ireland was called into session in June 1921, only the four Unionist members of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, and a handful of appointed senators, turned up in the Royal College of Science in Dublin, where the meeting was scheduled to take place ; the others convened elsewhere as the Dáil.

Though there were probably a handful of V13 members who also became Suicidals, Amery was not a member of V13 but bassist Louiche Mayorga's brother was ( and that's whose hat he's wearing just for the photo ).

The Times also noted that even though a handful of its former members had faced prosecution, no criminal charges had at the time ever been linked to CAIR.

For example, a handful of people might promote hateful racial generalizations which spread to the rest of a culture through the bandwagon effect, leading to discrimination against members of that race.

Most Knights Commander are honorary members or British citizens living abroad, with only a handful being residents of the United Kingdom.

An article entitled " The real value of on-line communities ," written by A Armstrong and J Hagel of the Harvard Business Review, addresses a handful of elements which are key to the growth of an online community and its success in drawing in members.

Its members are present in a handful of trade unions and it focuses most of its political energy towards defending immigrant rights and promoting Cuban solidarity.

Worldwide, credit union systems vary significantly in terms of total system assets and average institution asset size, ranging from volunteer operations with a handful of members to institutions with several billion dollars in assets and hundreds of thousands of members.

Later the Militant tendency were cited as the reason for Tatchell's selection, but as Tatchell pointed out in his book The Battle for Bermondsey, they had at that time only a handful of members in the constituency, Tatchell had never been a member and Militant did not support his selection.

Though a handful of members were arrested and tried, Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted of involvement in the bombing, due to a lack of solid evidence and various legal and investigative errors.

It should be noted that almost all of the ICFI in Latin America went to the new pro-OCI international tendency leaving the SLL supporters there with only a handful of members, notably in Bolivia and Peru.

The notion of recruiting violent youths to form a street army appealed to Martin Webster who attempted to coax members away from the BM to the NF but the BM only lost a handful of members in this manner before NF leader John Tyndall, mindful of the desire to present a respectable NF image, called a halt to the scheme.

As its members wrote just a handful of songs on the albums, most songs Three Dog Night recorded were written by outside songwriters.