Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

The number of people acting as one body by this scheme gives a surprisingly large army of 55,987 men.

We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself, taking evidence from a number of people ''.

That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Are you careful to restrict the number of people on leave at one time so that your total employment obligation is minimized??

Your choice of model will undoubtedly be governed by the number of people travelling in your group.

However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.

We want to know the number of people going to the mountains.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

Mr. Alexander H. Wheelan's Study Helps In Point And Figure Technique tells the readers: `` We assure you that the total number of people using this method of market analysis is a very small portion of the sum total of those operating in the securities and commodities markets ''.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

The service is over, and a number of people come from the church with their spokesman Mityukh in the lead.

A number of people became involved in the preparation but work was slow until 1937.

An increasing number of people with disabilities are participating in sports, leading to the development of new assistive technology.

Many blind people find this number machine a very useful tool throughout life.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

There is a large number of amateur astronomical societies around the world that serve as a meeting point for those interested in amateur astronomy, whether they be people who are actively interested in observing or " armchair astronomers " who may simply be interested in the topic.

" For some people, a program is only an algorithm if it stops eventually ; for others, a program is only an algorithm if it stops before a given number of calculation steps.

Official estimates of the population are of around 25, 000, while the unofficial number is upward of 200, 000 people.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

A rapid rise in the number of mainland visitors due to China's easing of travel restrictions, increased public works expenditures, and significant investment inflows associated with the liberalisation of Macau's gaming industry drove the five-year recovery.

The recovery of meteorites from Oman is currently prohibited by national law, but a number of international hunters continue to remove specimens now deemed " national treasures.

For reliable clock recovery at the receiver, one usually imposes a maximum run length constraint on the generated channel sequence, i. e., the maximum number of consecutive ones or zeros is bounded to a reasonable number.

The number of books in this historic library exceeded 1, 000, 000, of which 40, 000 to 50, 000 were destroyed past recovery.

On 10 July 2009, the solicitor was sentenced to 15 months ' imprisonment and the recovery agent to 16 months ' imprisonment ( Case number: DCCC 610 / 2008 ).

After his recovery he started work on a book to be called The Necessity for Zionism ; although the book was never written, he did publish a number of books on Jewish topics.

A number of brick buildings in Downtown Los Gatos were destroyed or seriously damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, though the district was quickly rebuilt and has made a full recovery.

Several recent additions, such as Argos, Lidl and Peacocks, are located in new retail spaces on the site of Pratt's but in common with other outer London high streets, retail recovery has been slow, and a substantial proportion of vacant space has been taken by a growing number of restaurants, bars and coffee shops.

Sarajevo has made a substantial recovery in terms of the number of buildings that have been fully restored and reoccupied.

There seem to be no commercially available " hard " greywater recovery devices suitable for on-site use in the individual household, even though a number of such technologies exist.

During his recovery in 1837, he had a number of vivid and terrifying dreams, which he interpreted as mystical visions.

However, a destructive fire during the 1916 nesting season, severe winters, an unusual influx of predatory goshawks, inbreeding, an excess number of male individuals and apparently an epidemic of blackhead disease, which might have been transmitted by poultry, brought the numbers down quickly ; after a last recovery to 600 in 1920, the population began its final decline.

So although Lee sought to be viewed as an integral part in the recovery of Christian truths and practices alongside a long line of Christian preachers, the result was to be separate from the same: " I am afraid that a number of us are still under the negative influence of Christendom.

A large number of positions were experimented with, mostly in Europe, as the United States did not widely take up the recovery position until its adoption by the American Heart Association in 1992.

The city has failed to fully recover from the blows inflicted by the economic downturn of 1982, but an increase in the number of international tourists visiting the city, and the recent high prices of copper in world markets have promoted an economic recovery.

The existence of a small number of diagnosed PVS cases that have eventually resulted in improvement makes defining recovery as " impossible " particularly difficult in a legal sense.

Another documented case reports recovery of a small number of patients following the removal of assisted respiration with cold oxygen.

The researchers describe a small number of cases in which removal of the chilled oxygen was followed by recovery from the PVS and recommend either warming of oxygen with a heated nebulizer or removal of the assisted oxygen if it is no longer needed.

When a ringed bird is found, and the ring number read and reported back to the ringer or ringing authority, this is termed a ringing recovery or control.

It was the chronicity and lack of recovery from these injuries ( arising from a number of possible causes ) that he regarded as central to the preservation of primitive self systems untempered by realism.

She recruited a number of businesses to Louisiana and also provided proper funding and policies to lay a foundation for coastal Louisiana's recovery.

The lake is ideal for kayaking and canoeing and there are a number of good sites for launching and recovery.

Depending on the amount of network traffic, and thus the number of packets available for inspection, a successful key recovery could take as little as one minute.