Due to its size Accrington is represented by a number of wards in the Borough of Hyndburn.

It is also known for the large number of famous people who have been treated there, including mathematician John Nash, Douglas S. Holder, who ran poetry groups in inpatient wards for over a decade, published Poems of Boston and Just Beyond: From the Back Bay to the Back Ward.

For the most part, the aldermen supported Daley and the official party position consistently, except for a small number of Republicans from the German wards on the northwest side of the city and a small number of independents ( a group that grew during Daley's mayoralty to represent groups that felt disenfranchised by Daley's policies ).

A number of suburban villages and towns of Tokyo City were changed to wards, bringing the total number of special wards to 35.

The judge would be assigned to create 5-7 wards and to authorize an election for the selection of an equivalent number of police jurors.

North Versailles has a number of named neighborhoods, including the following which roughly correspond to the township's seven wards:

The number of wards was increased from four to six: Central, Walsden, Langfield, Stansfield, Stoodley and Cornholme.

The charges that the Stormont seats ( as opposed to local council wards ) were gerrymandered against Nationalists is disputed by historians ( since the number of Nationalists elected under the two systems barely changed ), though it is agreed that losses under the change to single-member constituency boundaries were suffered by independent unionists, the Liberals and the Northern Ireland Labour Party.

Each of the 22 new wards elects three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system, a system designed to produce a form of proportional representation, and the total number of councillors remains the same.

The district is divided into three wards, each containing a number of towns and settlements:

The fencing system is based on a number of wards ( custodie ) which are answered by defensive postures ( obsessiones ).

* 1947 Tokyo's number of wards is consolidated to 23

The City of London is divided into twenty-five wards, each of which is an electoral division, electing one Alderman and a number of Councilmen based on the size of the electorate.

The Committee also looks at the number of councillors, the number of wards or divisions and whether the wards or divisions should be represented by a single councillor, or jointly by two or three councillors.

A number of students from The University of Birmingham live there, although not as many as in the nearby wards of Selly Oak and Edgbaston.

These wards then return a certain number of councillors each to the parish council ( depending on their population ).

A change in legislation meant that it was no longer permitted to have four member electoral areas and thus despite an increase in the number of wards to 23 the number of electoral areas was reduced by one.

According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict amongst them, whereas previously characters had interacted only with the chorus.

While the number of cardinals was small from the times of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance, and frequently smaller than the number of recognized churches entitled to a cardinal priest, in the 16th century the College expanded markedly.

Only the main island initially has number tokens: number tokens are assigned to the outlying islands as they are expanded.

The discovery of fullerenes greatly expanded the number of known carbon allotropes, which until recently were limited to graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon such as soot and charcoal.

Local education markets expanded and an increasing number of Finns also went abroad to study in the United States or Western Europe, bringing back advanced skills.

That said, the sport's scope has expanded significantly during recent years and an increasing number of Grands Prix are held on other continents.

The Committee first attempted to set the price for only a limited number of grain products but, by September 1793, it expanded the " maximum " to cover all foodstuffs and a long list of other goods.

Mahathir greatly expanded the number of secondary schools and universities throughout the country, and enforced the policy of teaching in Malay rather than English.

Local education markets expanded and an increasing number of Finns also went abroad to study in the United States or Western Europe, bringing back advanced skills.

The number and range of IPEC ’ s partners have expanded over the years and now include employers ’ and workers ’ organizations, other international and government agencies, private businesses, community-based organizations, NGOs, the media, parliamentarians, the judiciary, universities, religious groups and, of course, children and their families.

The federal EITC program has been expanded by a number of presidents including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W.

The number of nebulae was then greatly expanded by the efforts of William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel.

For similar reasons, if complex coefficients are allowed, one may have a single term like ( 2 + 3i ) x < sup > 3 </ sup >; even though it looks like it should be expanded to two terms, the complex number 2 + 3i is one complex number, and is the coefficient of that term.

After 267 BC the number was expanded to ten.

Progressive income taxation, a minimum wage, a maximum number of working hours per week, unemployment insurance, health insurance, an expanded pension programme, and grants to farmers were all included in the plan.

In the Later Roman Empire, the number of legions was increased and the Roman Army expanded.

In 1992 the army was expanded to 6, 150 under President Joseph Saidu Momoh in a ' poorly designed strategy that eradicated the few remaining elements of cohesion in the military ... recruits were mainly drifters, rural and urban unemployed, a fair number of hooligans, drug addicts, and thieves.

Shepherd expanded on his interest, through acquiring a number of public houses, but it was his son Julius Shepherd who extended this trend still further upon his inheritance of the Brewery in 1770, when the company held four such outlets.

As the two leagues had an unequal number of teams ( under the merger agreement, the NFL expanded by one team to 16, and the AFL by one to 10 ), realignment was advocated by some owners, but was opposed.

To maximize turbine efficiency the steam is expanded, doing work, in a number of stages.

Digest Group Publications also produced a number of MegaTraveller supplements, including alien modules detailing the Aslan, Vargr, Vilani and Solomani for MegaTraveller and the World Builder's Handbook, which expanded greatly on the world-building system found in the main rulebooks.

The revised and expanded, second edition of the Mismeasure of Man ( 1996 ) analyzes and challenges the methodological accuracy of The Bell Curve ( 1994 ), by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which re-presented the arguments of what Gould terms biological determinism, which he defines as " the abstraction of intelligence as a single entity, its location within the brain, its quantification as one number for each individual, and the use of these numbers to rank people in a single series of worthiness, invariably to find that oppressed and disadvantaged groups — races, classes, or sexes — are innately inferior and deserve their status.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

it involves a reduction in the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen ''.

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

One serves society by conducting a business from which a certain number of employees draw their means of subsistence ; ;

The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.

But the attempt itself produced a number of brilliant works, and these form a transition from the early romantic period to the new age of Ibsen and Chekhov.

That Aristotelean-Thomistic principle experienced a thorough going-over from a number of the participants, but in the end the concept came to reassert itself.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Although a look of alarm passed over his face, he did not arrest his movements but disappeared into the shower room just as the chambermaid emerged from number nine.

The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

The number on the right of the symbol is always subtracted from the number on the left of the symbol.

Aside from the Ruger carbine, a number of hunting rifles have been introduced for the first time.

Reduces losses from stomach, hookworm, and nodular worms by interfering with reproduction of the female worm by reducing the number of eggs laid and essentially rendering all laid eggs sterile.

Are your expenses in this area commensurate with the number of employees who benefit from your program??

A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the Af bond becomes symmetric when the Af bond length is about 2.4 to 2.5 A, but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric Af bonds.

There may be a number of secondary effects resulting from diffusion through buildings such as widespread contamination of kitchens, restaurants, food stores, hospitals, etc..

Second, the upper portion permits comparison of maturity levels of an equal number of growth centers from the long, short, and round bones of the five regions.

It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

In litters of eight mice from similar parents, the number of mice with straight instead of wavy hair is an integer from 0 to 8.

More generally, suppose that an experiment consists of a number of independent trials, that each trial results in either a `` success '' or a `` non-success '' ( `` failure '' ), and that the probability of success remains constant from trial to trial.