This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.

The sensational and frightening enjoyed popularity: a train rushes straight at the audience, or a great wave threatens to break over the seats.

As the plans were laid, some several thousand fat cats were to be ensconced in the armory's $100 seats and in 68 ringside boxes priced at $10,000 each.

Twice a year for 16 years, 10 weeks at a time, he appeared in county seats in the midstate region when the county courts were in session.

Colonial Labour parties contested seats from 1891, and federal seats following the Federation at the 1901 federal election.

Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

Coaches are designed for longer-distance travel and are typically fitted with individual high-backed reclining seats, seat-belts, toilets, audio-visual entertainment systems and can operate at higher speeds with more capacity for luggage.

Seven of his teammates had perished at the scene, including Taylor and Pegg, with whom he and Viollet had swapped seats prior to the fatal take-off attempt.

In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.

The Liberals gained ground, but once again it was at the Conservatives ' expense whilst also losing seats to Labour.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

He was Postmaster-General at the time of the 1931 crisis, during which most of the party's leaders lost their seats.

These changes within the military wing of the Republican Movement were accompanied by changes in the political wing and at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis ( party conference ), which followed the IRA Convention, the party's policy of abstentionism, which forbade Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats in the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland, was dropped.

Their study found that using bicycle seats without protruding noses reduced pressure on the groin by at least 65 % and significantly reduced the number of cases of urogenital paresthesia.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

To meet the demand of commuters, JR sells commuter discount passes and operates 16 car bilevel E4 Series Shinkansen at rush hour, providing a capacity of 1, 600 seats.

Besides being the changing rooms, the Cottage ( also called The Clubhouse ) was traditionally used by the players ' families and friends who sit on the balcony to watch the game, but the club now sell those seats at a premium game-by-game rate.

Cheka departments were organized not only in big cities and guberniya seats, but also in each uyezd, at any front-lines and military formations.

Senators being appointed for life at this time, these coveted seats rarely went unfilled for a long period of time anywhere in Canada.

Riding a car around a curve, we take a personal view that we are at rest in the car, and should be undisturbed in our seats.

The stone steps / seats at right were added under the Romans.

( Club have reported that they do not sell the cottage seats but are for players families to watch the game and that have no plans to change that ) In the past, board meetings used to be held in The Cottage itself as well.

In Germany, most large corporations are required to allow employees to elect a certain percentage of seats on the supervisory board.

Billionaire Nelson Peltz initiated a proxy battle during 2006, culminating in a vote to place Peltz's nominees on the Board, which, depending on how many seats the dissident group received after the final vote tally, would displace some of the current board members.

It cost them A $ 3 million, and they received four of eight seats on the board of directors.

According to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the president cannot appoint persons of the same political party to more than five of the nine CPB board seats.

In addition, Altria Group, Inc. has a 28. 7 % economic and voting interest in one of the world's largest brewing companies, UK based SABMiller plc, where it has 3 seats on the 11-person board of directors.

Because of Isis ' anti-technology and self-denying puritanical beliefs, she has to use a Sitting Board ( a hard board she can put over the comfortable seats in cars and other means of transportation in order to deprive herself of cushioning ).

After his premiership, Biesheuvel retired from active politics and occupied many posts in industry and seats on numerous supervisory boards, including Chairman of the supervisory board for the NIBC Bank, from 1973 until 1991.

This increases the total stake in Iberia to around 10 % and preserves its two seats on the Iberia board.

Its board of selectmen has five elected seats, currently filled by:

The town board is made up of four members, each serving four-year terms, with two seats up for election every odd year.

A divided board was unable to appoint replacements, but in the 2007 elections, two seats, including that of Supervisor ( out of four seats up for elections ) went to candidates who had supported the Golisano plan when it was promoted.

Meanwhile, Michael busies himself with the biggest deal of his career: He has recently bought up enough stock in International Immobiliare, an international real estate holding company known as " the world's biggest landlord ", to become its largest single shareholder, with six seats on the company's 13-member board of directors.

In the April 2007 election, several new faces ran for the Board of Aldermen, taking seats at the next regular board meeting.

A board was organised for the party-in-foundation and a GreenLeft Council, which was supposed to control the board and the parliamentary party and stimulate the process of merger, all five groups ( CPN, PPR, PSP, EVP and the Vereniging Groen Links all had seats as ratio of the number of party members.

Using a staggered board of directors can diminish the ability of minority factions to obtain representation by reducing the number of seats up for election at any given time.

In 2006-07 it is estimated she received another $ 1. 3 million from board seats at several major corporations.

The Hibs board continued to back the Straiton proposal and they insisted the installation of bucket seats in the uncovered South Terrace was merely to comply with the Taylor Report deadline.

Nominees to six of the nine board seats are chosen by the sitting trustees.

The party was reduced to three seats on the city school board and two on the parks board, newcomer Spencer Herbert ( who was elected an NDP MLA in Vancouver-Burrard at a by-election in 2008 ), and Loretta Woodcock.

As part of the acquistion Tata gained the right to appoint three of the nine seats on the board, and one of the three seats on the management committee.