The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

Registered Democrats in New York City this year have the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization.

He was a fighter for those of his own party.

Does the organization show an affinity for a foreign government, political party or personality in opposition or preference to the American system??

The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.

-- Plans for a dramatic, broad-scale party rally in Los Angeles next December that would enlist top-drawer Democrats from all over the country.

These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

And the dogwood in early May, for Miss Ada's alfresco party ; ;

Support for it cuts across party, regional, ethnic and other lines.

( This goes for getting a drink tray ready, and for having a big cooler full of ice on hand long before the party begins.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

Giles looked upon his expedition as a failure, but he had done well considering the size and equipment of his party.

Driving to the party, Giles hits a man in the road, gets out of the car and finds the man reanimated.

The Gibson Desert was named by explorer Ernest Giles after a member of his party, Alfred Gibson, who became lost and presumably died in this desert during an expedition in 1874.

Willow follows her, explaining that she should get over it and have fun at the party that night, but Buffy thinks that Giles will want her to patrol.

Buffy arrives and while Giles tells her to patrol, she says she's going to party with Willow and hopefully cheer her up.

Willow, Angel and Giles head to the frat party and meet up with Xander.

Buffy, Giles and Joyce crash the party underground, and the Mayor quickly flees unnoticed.

At the party, Giles feels out of place, especially when Buffy introduces Riley as her boyfriend, and brags about how wonderful Professor Walsh is.

Ernest Giles, who traversed Australia in the 1870s and 1880s, left an account of a skirmish that took place between his survey party and members of a local tribe in the Everard Ranges of mountains in 1882.

Eventually, the Nazi party developed strong relationships with big business and abolished trade unions while real wages dropped by a fourth, and employees could not easily change employer.

They were first in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Socialistes ( with 13. 8 %), fourth in the canton-wide election.

The republican theory also suggests that the Long Parliament would have been successful in these necessary reforms except through the forceful intervention of Oliver Cromwell ( and others ) in removing the loyalists party, the unlawful execution of King Charles II, later dissolving the Rump Parliament ; and finally the forceful dissolution of the reconvened Rump Parliament by Monck when less than a fourth of the required members were present.

In Europe, the socialist Left Party in Germany grew in popularity due to dissatisfaction with the increasingly neoliberal policies of the SPD, becoming the fourth biggest party in parliament in the general election on 27 September 2009.

In Denmark, the Socialist People's Party ( SF or Socialist Party for short ) more than doubled its parliamentary representation to 23 seats from 11, making it the fourth largest party.

This " magic formula " has been repeatedly criticised: in the 1960s, for excluding leftist opposition parties ; in the 1980s, for excluding the emerging Green party ; and particularly after the 1999 election, by the People's Party, which had by then grown from being the fourth largest party on the National Council to being the largest.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party placed fourth, with 8. 93 % of the vote and 31 out of 460 seats, and entered into a governing coalition with the victor, the centrist-conservative Civic Platform ( Platforma Obywatelska ).

The fourth rule, which banned nomination speeches, was the only one the party quickly abandoned.

Together European Green Party / EFA have 50 seats and they are the fourth largest party in the European Parliament.

After the fourth Balkenende cabinet was formed, the VVD was the second-largest opposition party in the Dutch House of Representatives.

After the election, a " Purple Coaliton " was considered-it would have required a fourth party in addition to the VVD, PvdA and D66-but talks broke down and the PvdA entered opposition.

In the 1992 general election the party added a fourth MP, Cynog Dafis, when he gained Ceredigion and Pembroke North from the Liberal Democrats.

Mulroney was elected party leader on June 11, 1983, beating Clark on the fourth ballot.

The party suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and, by halving their share, fell from the first to the fourth place.

There are currently 194 countries party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including this fourth treaty but also including the other three.

On April 28, 2008, Honorary Chairman Lien Chan of the then opposition Kuomintang visited Beijing and met with Hu Jintao for the fourth time since their historic encounter on April 29, 2005 in their respective capacity as party leaders of both the Chinese Communist Party and the KMT.

The party won Vitrolles, its fourth town, in a 1997 by-election, where similar policies were pursued.

Le Pen came fourth in the election with 11 % of the vote, and the party won no seats in the legislative election of the same year.

In June 2011, the party was shaken when three of its most prominent MNAs — popular actor Pierre Curzi, former cabinet minister Louise Beaudoin, and Lisette Lapointe, the wife of former premier Jacques Parizeau, followed the next day by a fourth, Jean-Martin Aussant, quit the party to sit as independents over Marois's support for a bill changing the law to permit an agreement between the City of Québec and Quebecor Inc. concerning the management of the new sports and entertainment complex in Quebec City.

On April 28, 2007, Rosselló revealed to various party leaders that in March, 2006, he had signed a sworn statement assuring that he would not make a fourth run for the governorship in 2008, and that he intended to abide by the result.

Labor won only 13 out of the 120 Knesset seats in the 2009 elections, making them the fourth largest party.

What they did not contemplate was that there was a new fourth party on the rise: the BC Social Credit League.