For instance, a local society in the middle of a large city may have regular meetings with speakers, focusing less on observing the night sky if the membership is less able to observe due to factors such as light pollution.

As a national nonprofit organization, the institute funds its efforts through foundation and government grants, contributions and sponsorships from large corporations and small companies, donations from individuals and its AFI membership program.

In the end, after a number of large demutualisations, and pressure from carpetbaggers moving from one building society to another to cream off the windfalls, most of the remaining societies modified their rules of membership in the late 1990s.

These legal defense funds can have large membership counts where members contribute to the fund.

This move generated large increases in game attendance, membership and revenue for the club.

It has a membership of around 120 and has a large selection of dinghies and a small fleet of keelboats, including Solings, which are former Olympic boats.

These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.

For instance, a club membership list may contain only a hundred or so member names, out of the very large set of all possible names.

In the economic policy, the EU membership forced large changes.

In Indiana, log homes were soon replaced with one-or two-story houses of timber frame or brick construction in addition to four large rooming houses ( dormitories ) for its growing membership.

The Knights of Labor attracted many Catholics, who were a large part of the membership, perhaps a majority.

In the early 21st century, the core membership of Farrakhan's Nation of Islam was estimated at between 10, 000 and 50, 000 — though in the same period Farrakhan was delivering speeches that regularly attracted crowds of more than 30, 000 in large cities across the United States.

Strong economic growth potential, a large domestic market, EU membership, and a high level of political stability are the top reasons U. S. and other foreign companies do business in Poland.

Gorbachev was elected without opposition to the chairmanship of the new Supreme Soviet ; then the Congress of People's Deputies elected a large majority of old-style party apparatchiks to fill the membership of its new legislative body.

In the 1920s and 1930s, rural Rhode Island saw a surge in Ku Klux Klan membership, largely in reaction to large waves of immigrants moving to the state.

The Temple's membership does have a fairly large turnover rate ; most members leave eventually for a wide variety of reasons.

WSFS has no standing officers, only small standing committees, and a large membership composed of the members of the current Worldcon.

Due to its large membership, varying and strong beliefs, and occasionally speculative nature, the environmental movement is not always united in its goals.

NADCA has experienced large membership growth and has been extremely successful with the training and certification of air systems cleaning specialists, mold remediators, and HVAC inspectors.

Through this action, the Prophet of the Church can be assured that a large representation of the Church membership supports the inspired document.

The membership of the new church worked vigorously to provide financing necessary for this large undertaking.

These legal defense funds can have large membership counts where the members contribute to the fund.

The Robbinsville Field House is a large membership gym located at the entrance to the warehouse colony near Route 526.

# Doctors and Masters of the University who have held a Studentship of the University, or are Moderators who have obtained a large gold medal, or Moderators who have obtained a gold medal in or after 1935, or Moderators who have obtained two Moderatorships of a class higher than class III, and who have applied to the Registrar of the Senate for membership of the Senate, without payment of fee.

Membership required a fee within the range of 15 pfennig to 3 Reichsmark, depending on the category a member fell into in a large scale of 20 membership groups.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

For years Papa and Mama had been large taxpayers.

Many of the myocardial fibers were hypertrophied and had large, irregular, basophilic nuclei.

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

By this time large numbers of the audience had left the hall.

When the smaller facet-planes of Analytical Cubism were placed upon or juxtaposed with the large, dense shapes formed by the affixed materials of the collage, they had to coalesce -- become `` synthesized '' -- into larger planar shapes themselves simply in order to maintain the integrity of the picture plane.

Until internal combustion became cheap, he had to be near a railroad siding and a trolley line or an existing large community of lower-class homes.

One had to manage the given subjects, three diverse recent events, so as to make them part of a classical frieze, -- that is, a pattern of large figures filling the space, with not much else, against a blank background.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

He seemed to remember reading somewhere that Abyssinians had large litters, and suffered a dismaying vision of the apartment overrun with a dozen kittens.

Andy had no desire to linger himself but Hub reported that the mob outside was still large despite the efforts of the police to disperse them.

He took several large swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone up another flight, and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him.

The stranger's eyes were large and sad, as if Phil Haney had hurt his feelings.

The trial had packed the large courtroom for more than a week.

Evegeni Dubovskoi conducted an exceptionally large orchestra, one containing excellent soloists -- the violin solos by the concertmaster, Guy Lumia, were especially fine -- but one in which the core of traveling players and the body of men added locally had not had time to achieve much unity.

and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover??

They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.

It looked to me as though he had everything an artist could want, joy in his work, standing in the profession, a large and steady income.

But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.