Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

He persuaded them, along with a group of friends, to purchase a controlling interest in the mines, which later became known as the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company based in Calumet, Michigan.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

This group is often associated with the French New Wave directors who came to prominence during the same time period, and indeed both groups were often friends and journalistic co-workers.

" Crew " is used colloquially to refer to a small, tight-knit group of friends or associates engaged in criminal activity.

Crew can refer simply to a group of friends, unrelated to crime or violence.

Anderson was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys in London, where his group of friends included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

Instead, the group attend memorial services in New York, as well as organizing their own private memorial in Los Angeles along with David's family and close friends.

The film follows the adventures of a group of friends through the eyes of Charles ( Hugh Grant ), a debonair but faux pas-prone Englishman, who is smitten with Carrie, an attractive American ( Andie MacDowell ), whom Charles repeatedly meets at weddings and at a funeral.

The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan.

Several days later, he came out to a group of friends at a party held at his home in Belsize Park, where he officially introduced them to his partner, David Sherlock, whom he had met in Ibiza in 1966.

I was then in graduate school at University of Florida and in the habit of meeting with a group of friends every Wednesday evening for dinner, drinks, and conversation.

Beginning in the early 1920, Hawks lived in rented houses in Hollywood with the group of friends he was accumulating.

A group of young realists, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille, who had studied under Charles Gleyre, became friends and often painted together.

It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

The novel is a comedy-mystery in the style of The Thin Man, about a group of friends who were so drunk the night one of them was murdered that none can remember anything.

One group was the familiares regis, John's immediate friends and knights who travelled around the country with him.

He kept his grip on my hand and turned around and bellowed to his group of chatting friends, " Guess who I've got here.

They were assisted in this by a group of friends and associates who helped to sculpt the classic Roxy Music ' look ', notably fashion designer Antony Price, hair stylist Keith Mainwaring, photographer Karl Stoecker, the group's " PR consultant " Simon Puxley ( a former university friend of Mackay's ) and Ferry's art school classmate Nicholas De Ville.

Depressed by the failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends with André Breton, and became involved in the surrealist group.

The Edison Medal was created on February 11, 1904, by a group of Edison's friends and associates.

The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead.

Outside legal spheres, the word " traitor " may also be used to describe a person who betrays ( or is accused of betraying ) their own political party, nation, family, friends, ethnic group, team, religion, social class, or other group to which they may belong.

For it includes the emotional ties that bind men to their homeland and the complex motivations that hold a large group of people together as a unit.

Traditionally, amphibians as a class are defined as all tetrapods with a larval stage, while the group that includes the common ancestors of all living amphibians ( frogs, salamanders and caecilians ) and all their descendants is called Lissamphibia.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.

Some more recent studies have used the word anthophyte to describe a group which includes the angiosperms and a variety of fossils ( glossopterids, Pentoxylon, Bennettitales, and Caytonia ), but not the Gnetales.

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

The suffix-ol in non-systematic names ( such as paracetamol or cholesterol ) also typically indicates that the substance includes a hydroxyl functional group and, so, can be termed an alcohol.

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

# The eimeriorins are a diverse group that includes one host species of invertebrates, two-host species of invertebrates, one-host species of vertebrates and two-host species of vertebrates.

This group also includes some related compounds with neutral and even weakly acidic properties.

This group also includes some alkaloids that besides nitrogen heterocycle contain terpene ( e. g., evonine ) or peptide fragments ( e. g. ergotamine ).

This group also includes piperidine alkaloids coniine and coniceine although they do not originate from amino acids.

This group includes, terpene-like and steroid-like alkaloids, as well as purine-like alkaloids such as caffeine, theobromine and theophylline.

* British Isles, a group of islands that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and other islands

In the Triassic period some groups of archosaurs ( a group that includes the ancestors of crocodiles ) developed bipedalism ; among their descendants the dinosaurs, all the early forms and many later groups were habitual or exclusive bipeds ; the birds descended from one group of exclusively bipedal dinosaurs.

Bipedalism evolved more than once in archosaurs, the group that includes both dinosaurs and crocodilians.

The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia.

This group includes the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, containing part of St John's Gospel, and perhaps dating from between 125 and 160.

It includes budgetary and eurozone matters via an informal group composed only of eurozone member ministers.

Cnidarians are classified into four main groups: the almost wholly sessile Anthozoa ( sea anemones, corals, sea pens ); swimming Scyphozoa ( jellyfish ); Cubozoa ( box jellies ); and Hydrozoa, a diverse group that includes all the freshwater cnidarians as well as many marine forms, and has both sessile members such as Hydra and colonial swimmers such as the Portuguese Man o ' War.

By extension, it has come to include an extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of any group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards rival groups.

From the CMB data it is seen that our local group of galaxies ( the galactic cluster that includes the Solar System's Milky Way Galaxy ) appears to be moving at 627 ± 22 km / s relative to the reference frame of the CMB ( also called the CMB rest frame, or the frame of reference in which there is no motion through the CMB ) in the direction of galactic longitude l

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

The first collisional family — a group of objects thought to be remnants from the breakup of a single body — is the Haumea family It includes Haumea, its moons, and seven smaller bodies .< sup >†</ sup > The objects not only follow similar orbits but also share similar physical characteristics.