The SPA's executive committee formally expelled seven of these language federations in May 1919 when it became clear that they favored the left wing in the impending split within the party.

SPA's first 3D movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, was released in September 2009, and was nominated for four Annie Awards including Best Animated Feature.

Dark Seed was the winner of the SPA's 1993 Codie award for the Best Fantasy Role-Playing / Adventure Program.

SPA's math department offers a variety of courses that take most students through a study of Calculus as a senior, prefaced with Algebra 2, Geometry, and Pre-Calculus.

A large percentage of the SPA's youth organization, the Young People's Socialist League left with the expelled " Left Wing ".

" It was at this national gathering that the ongoing factional war between a youthful " Militant " faction favoring aggressive advocacy of revolutionary tactics and joint action with the Communist Party won the day and pushed through a new Declaration of Principles, leading the SPA's right wing faction, known as the " Old Guard " to abandon the organization.

This brought him into conflict with the SPA's syndicalist Left Wing.

SPA's parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment has partnered in 2007 with Aardman Animations to finance, co-produce and distribute feature films.

SPA's English department offers students strong individual attention, helping students develop their analytical reading and writing skills.

SPA's leader is Edi Rama, the mayor of Tirana.

Suspensions and expulsions of a major part of the SPA's membership immediately followed, including suspensions of the Russian Socialist Federation, Lithuanian Socialist Federation, Polish Federation, Lettish ( Latvian ) Federation, South Slavic Socialist Federation, and Ukrainian Federation of the Socialist Party in addition to the entire state socialist parties of Michigan, Massachusetts, and Ohio.

Much of the SPA's Scandinavian Federation went over to the CPUSA in 1919.

Student religious organizations are co-ordinated under the Religious Activities Committee, a standing committee of the Carleton Student Association.

The Carleton Social Co-operative is a standing committee of the Carleton Student Association.

To increase faculty influence and decrease tension, many presidents have established a standing advisory committee with which they can discuss problems frankly.

After the Supreme Court annulled that law, President Vieira dissolved the Assembly, thus allowing the standing committee to continue working, and appointed a new government composed of loyalists.

A standing committee known as the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and elected by the Assembly performs legislative functions when the Assembly is not in session.

as the meeting at which his removal was announced was attended by the entire Politburo standing committee, Politburo members and candidate members, making ill health seem implausibly minor.

Although the NPC generally approves State Council policy and personnel recommendations, the NPC and its standing committee has increasingly asserted its role as the national legislature and has been able to force revisions in some laws.

The tribuni maiores, the earliest central standing governing committee of the islands in the Lagoon, dated from c. 568.

The most important standing committee is the Mark Protection Committee ( MPC ), which is responsible for maintaining the society's trademarks and domain names.

The Democrats spokeswoman called for a standing parliamentary committee.

The War Committee meeting on 15 February 1916 decided to immediately establish a standing joint naval and military committee to co-ordinate both the design and the supply of materiel for the two air services.

A 70-member standing committee ( Eesti Komitee ) was elected with Tunne Kelam as its chairman.

Between meetings it is guided by a standing committee which meets weekly.

The standing committee includes the premier, one executive vice premier, three vice premiers, and five other state councilors ( one of whom serves as Secretary General of the State Council, and two of whom concurrently serve as ministers ).

One of the most important sources of the Speaker's power was his position as Chairman of the Committee on Rules, which, after the reorganization of the committee system in 1880, became one of the most powerful standing committees of the House.

The chairman of a powerful standing committee, Bob Livingston, who chaired the Appropriations Committee, declared his bid for speakership which was unopposed, making him Speaker-elect.

Most bills cannot be enacted into law until it has been referred to, acted upon by, and returned from, a standing committee in each house.

How the Politburo works internally is unclear, but it appears that the full Politburo meets once a month and the standing committee meets weekly.

" The Washington Post reported that sources indicated not all of the standing committee of the Politburo shared Jiang's view that Falun Gong should be eradicated, but James Tong suggests there was not substantial resistance from the Politburo.

Governing functions of the Legislature rely on a committee system ; currently, there are five standing committees and one long-term ad hoc committee.

It is the oldest standing committee in Paris.

Among the nine standing committees at the Politburo, there are four Tsinghua graduates ; among the 24 Politburo committee members, there are five ; and of all the " leaders of the party and the country ", there are 10.

In March 1773, along with Thomas Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee, Henry led the Virginia House of Burgesses to adopt resolutions providing for a standing committee of correspondence.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

A " standing eight " count rule may also be in effect.

The printing of paper money was also associated with wars, and financing of wars, and therefore regarded as part of maintaining a standing army.

It also has a long standing rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ).

It is also one of the oldest standing bridges in Colombia.

Comoros also confronted domestically the problem of the degree of democracy the government was prepared to grant to its citizens, a consideration that related to its standing in the world community.

CL follows the older Lisp convention of using the symbols T and NIL, with NIL standing also for the empty list.

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

Internally, Alpha processors were also identified by EV numbers, EV officially standing for " Extended VAX " but having an alternative humorous meaning of " Electric Vlasic ", giving homage to the Electric Pickle experiment at Western Research Lab.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

The boy had three years of instruction in the playing of the harpsichord from Giuseppe Prinetti, originally from Novara, who played the scale with two fingers only ; Prinetti also owned a business selling beer and had a propensity to fall asleep while standing.

James also created a large standing army and employed Catholics in positions of power within it.

It is also assumed in the Hesychast texts that the Hesychast is a member of the Orthodox Church in good standing.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

In medieval Europe, standing as a godparent to a child also created a bond of affinity.

Castles mentioned within the story include Ashby de la Zouch Castle ( now a ruin in the care of English Heritage ), York ( though the mention of Clifford's Tower, likewise a still standing English Heritage property, is anachronistic, it not having been called that until later after various rebuilds ) and ' Coningsburgh ', which is based upon Conisbrough Castle, in the ancient town of Conisbrough near Doncaster ( the castle also being a popular English Heritage site ).

There are also numerous standing stones dating from prehistoric times, including six stone circles on Machrie Moor, Arran and other examples on Great Cumbrae and Bute.

When later Christ appeared at the Lake of Genesareth John was also the first of the seven disciples present who recognized his Master standing on the shore ( John 21: 7 ).

It can also be applied to standing pools of water in order to kill mosquito larvae.

The party was also barred from standing in the 1992 election, and both organisations were banned outright in 1994.

Alberti also claimed that he " excelled in all bodily exercises ; could, with feet tied, leap over a standing man ; could in the great cathedral, throw a coin far up to ring against the vault ; amused himself by taming wild horses and climbing mountains.

A potential world record of was recorded by Iván Pedroso, with a " legal " wind reading also at Sestriere, but the jump was not validated because videotape revealed someone was standing in front of the wind gauge, invalidating the reading ( and costing Pedroso a Ferrari valued at $ 130, 000 -- the prize for breaking the record at that meet ).

Muslims are also discouraged from wearing clothing with distracting images and symbols so as not to divert the attention of those standing behind them during prayer.

Burma also has a low fertility rate, of 2. 07 children per woman ( 2010 ), especially as compared to other Southeast Asian countries of similar economic standing, like Cambodia ( 3. 18 ) and Laos ( 4. 41 ), representing a significant decline from 4. 7 in 1983, despite the absence of a national population policy.