# Oilimport and distribution ( claimed by Armenian opposition parties to belonging to a handful of government-linked individuals, one of which-" Mika Limited "-is owned by Mikhail Baghdasarian, while the other-" Flash "-is owned by Barsegh Beglarian, a " prominent representative of the Karabakh clan ")

The MMM and MSM rejoined in a coalition that won the 2000 elections and, although a handful of MPs defected from the MSM in early 2005, both parties went together to the next election in July 2005, competing against the Alliance Sociale, a MLP-led coalition.

In the 1988 election, his name appeared on the ballot as the Presidential candidate of a handful of left-wing state parties, such as the Consumer Party in Pennsylvania and the Minnesota Progressive Party in Minnesota.

Although the BRP was banned along with all other political parties after the uprising of 19 May 1934, it continued fielding a handful of non-party National Assembly Deputies and Zhivkov retained his posts at its Sofia structure.

In the 1980s and throughout the 1990s Tucson was the site of a vital underground music scene centered around Club Congress and a handful of clubs and ersatz backyard parties located in the neighborhoods proximate to the University of Arizona.

Parliament is divided among a handful of political parties, which the protagonists in both Perdido Street Station and Iron Council consider nothing more than an old boy network.

Only a tiny handful of games were developed by third parties, including Sachen and the British developer B. I. T. S .. Up against Nintendo's list of popular franchises ( Zelda, Mario, Metroid ) and those of its third parties ( Castlevania, Mega Man )-all of which eventually surfaced on the Game Boy-the Supervision's games were of little interest to most.

During the martial law crackdown against East Pakistan, the National Awami Party under Wali Khan was one of a handful of parties that protested the military operation.

After a fractured mandate in Meghalaya's 2008 Assembly Elections, an alliance between his UDP and a handful of other parties stated claim to form the government under the banner of the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance, with Roy as Chief Minister.

After the Reform Act, which disenfranchised many of the rotten boroughs ( boroughs that had declined in importance, had only a small population, and had only a handful of eligible voters ), parliamentary constituencies began to diverge from the ancient boroughs.

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.

Lynne's comeback with ELO began in 2000 with the release of a retrospective box set, Flashback, containing three CDs of remastered tracks and a handful of out-takes and unfinished works, most notably a new version of ELO's only UK number one hit " Xanadu ".

Between their medieval extinction and the 1980s, when wild boar farming began, only a handful of captive wild boar, imported from the continent, were present in Britain.

Heavily influenced by electro and hip hop, they began trading mixtapes and then creating their own compositions while collecting a handful of cheap equipment, most notably a Casio SK-1 sampler and a Roland TR-606 drum machine.

The JCS published DoD Directive 5105. 21, " Defense Intelligence Agency " on 1 August, and DIA began operations with a handful of employees in borrowed office space on 1 October 1961.

Arnold Medberry, for instance, brought his plow to the shoreline and began picking up clams by the handful.

Amarillo civil rights attorney Jeff Blackburn began investigating the Tulia defendants ' cases, along with civil rights organizations and a handful of attorneys from firms around the country.

By 1900, there was only a handful of saloons and hotels, and Sandy began to more closely resemble other rural Utah towns — a place where everyone knew everyone else.

Hayes recruited a handful of young college graduates to come to Washington, D. C. and began to plan what would become the first April 22 Earth Day.

Construction began in 1962 and a handful of researchers moved into the first laboratory in 1963.

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.

By the early 2000s, a handful of new bands began to revive glam metal in one form or another.

The band began re-recording their second album, In Color, as well as a handful of other miscellaneous tracks.

Only a handful of people claimed to have successfully contacted Jandek before he began regularly playing in public ( see below ).

It was then that Greenberg began to write seriously, and soon after began getting published in a handful of small magazines and literary journals.

The first United States hospital-based palliative care programs began in the late 1980s at a handful of institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic and Medical College of Wisconsin.

He normally played small venues ( often to crowds of fewer than fifty people ) but began to move towards playing larger venues ( and even made a handful of television appearances ) during the 1990s.

He began running marathons in his 80s, exercised daily until his death, and would regularly play golf, without a golf cart, carrying his own clubs ( although he usually made do with only a handful of clubs, rather than an entire bag ).

By the 1880s the handful of competing oyster companies began consolidating into a single monopoly.

She moved to New York in 1968, where she began modeling and designing jewelry for a handful of top designers, including Halston, Giorgio di Sant ' Angelo and Tiffany & Co ..

He began to read large numbers of books, but counted only a handful as having an impression on him later in life, primarily works by Gorky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.

Deadsy began in 1995, when Elijah Blue Allman ( son of Cher and Gregg Allman ), also known as Phillips Exeter Blue I, started recording a handful of demos ( including Dear and a cover of Texas Never Whispers ) with Alec Puro ( Alec Pure ) and later sent a Juno 106 keyboard to Renn Hawkey ( Dr. Nner ) as an invitation to join the band.

He backed Jess into a corner, grabbed a handful of the man's shirtfront, and drew back his right fist.

Through the 1950s and into the 1960s the Liberals survived only because a handful of constituencies in rural Scotland and Wales clung to their Liberal traditions, whilst in two English towns, Bolton and Huddersfield, local Liberals and Conservatives agreed to each contest only one of the town's two seats.

* Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) compiles the two Henry IV plays into a single, condensed storyline, while adding a handful of scenes from Richard II and Henry V. The movie, also known as Falstaff, features Welles himself in the title role.

The nobility class fell under control of a handful of powerful families with established territorial domains, the urban population and infrastructure fell into ruin, together with most peasant farms.

Since the introduction of nalidixic acid in 1962, more than 10, 000 analogs have been synthesized, but only a handful have found their way into clinical practice.

A handful of Baird's ' Phonovision ' recordings survive and these were finally decoded and rendered into viewable images in the 1990s using modern digital signal-processing technology.

Despite the dominance of the human race, the Traveller universe is cosmopolitan, and is divided into a handful of major races and a large number of minor races.

This technology survived into the 21st century in a handful of oilfields in the US, transmitting power from a central pumping engine to the numerous pump-jacks in the oil field.

Nominally friendly lords and even his own fortresses closed their gates to him, and John was forced to flee into Scotland with a handful of retainers and throw himself on the charity of the Scottish King Robert II until the crisis was over.

Their combined forces overwhelmed the Normans at York and took control of Northumbria, but a small seaborne raid which Edgar led into Lindsey ended in disaster and he escaped with only a handful of followers to rejoin the main army.

Nickelodeon originally aired a handful of episodes in edited half-hour form during 1981 as a test run, since producer Roger Price and director Geoffrey Darby had edited the entire 1981 season of You Can't Do That on Television episodes into a half-hour format similar to Whatever Turns You On for national and international syndication.

In 2004, the first of a handful of graduates was " cross-commissioned " into the Coast Guard.

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 ).

Each time, however, this handful of species diversified into a multitude of forms.

American pioneers thought that “ a handful of violets taken into the farmhouse in the spring ensured prosperity, and to neglect this ceremony brought harm to baby chicks and ducklings .” On account of its place in American hearts, a game called “ Violet War ” also arose.

With just a handful of the encrypted random dot image pixels captured, the gun converts the small image into a binary array which allows the computer to locate the exact position the gun was pointed at and is compatible with any screen of any size.

However, the chiefs of staff involved in planning operation Desert Storm ( Gulf War I ) required anti-air units to accompany the Challenger equipped armoured regiments, and a handful of Tracked Rapiers were bought back from civilian collections and removed from display outside army camps and pressed back into service with the latest Rapier missile systems.

Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation ; solutions were " withheld until the last possible second "; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

When the Maquis ship was destroyed by crashing into a Kazon ship to save the USS Voyager, Tuvok was transported off the ship with a handful of other survivors, and resumed his duties as Security & Tactical Officer.

.. Sceaf ; who, as some affirm, was driven on a certain island in Germany, called Scandza, ( of which Jornandes, the historian of the Goths, speaks ), a little boy in a skiff, without any attendant, asleep, with a handful of corn at his head, whence he was called Sceaf ; and, on account of his singular appearance, being well received by the men of that country, and carefully educated, in his riper age he reigned in a town which was called Slaswic, but at present Haithebi ; which country, called old Anglia, whence the Angles came into Britain, is situated between the Saxons and the Goths.

In the first attempt, Langley said the wing clipped part of the catapult, leading to a plunge into the river " like a handful of mortar ," according to one reporter.

For most of the war, therefore, the Angevin armies were led into battle by a handful of senior nobles.

Historians say that while trading on shore, Stone kidnapped a handful of Pequot, with intentions to sell them into slavery, and was beaten and slaughtered by their rescuers.

After several decades of being not much more than a handful of crossroads, Hainesville finally exploded into a sprawling suburban neighborhood.