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.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.

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.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before 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.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

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.

One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel.

Viola had been urged to attend, by telephone, and not knowing the host or the character of the party, she had gone.

It had a gourmet's corner ( instead of a kitchen ), a breakfast room, a luncheon room, a dining room, a sitting room, a room for standing up, a party room, dressing rooms for everybody, even a room for mud.

a `` splash party '' at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour ; ;

The concentration of effective power in Rabat leads not only to party bickering, but to distraction from local activity that might have had many auxiliary benefits in addition to contributing to more meaningful elections.

The newer party campaigned heavily, while the older, more confident party expected the Moroccan merchants and small businessmen to support them as they had done for many years.

The bulk of the preparation had, of course, proceeded under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior, whose officials are barred from party activity and probably generally disinterested in party politics.

`` 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 ''.

Calling the Democrats the `` party that lives, breathes and thinks for the good of the people '', Hughes asked, `` a representative Democratic vote in the primary for a springboard toward victory in November ''.

He is publicly on record as believing Mr. De Sapio should be replaced for the good of the party.

The gala is the Thrift Shop's annual bundle party and, as all Thrift Shop friends know, that means the admission is a bundle of used clothing in good condition, contributions of household equipment, bric-a-brac and such to stock the shelves at the shop's headquarters at 1213 Walnut St..

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

Andropov was in a good position to take over the control of the party apparatus ; three big system hierarchs, Brezhnev, Kosygin and Suslov had all died.

" Lozgachev used the bedroom telephone where he frantically called a few party officials telling them that Stalin may have had a stroke and asked them to send good doctors to the Kuntsevo residence immediately.

In Miles Gloriosus, for instance, the female concubine ’ s name, Philocomasium, translates to “ lover of a good party ”— which is quite apt when we learn about the tricks and wild ways of this prostitute.

This good faith basis of treaties implies that a party to the treaty cannot invoke provisions of its municipal ( domestic ) law as justification for a failure to perform.

However, the party made good progress despite poor weather, and had completed the Polar Plateau stage of their journey, approximately 300 miles ( 500 km ), by 7 February.

It may also be inequitable to allow a defendant to use the defense of the running of the limitations period, such as the case of an individual in the position of authority over someone else who intimidates the victim into never reporting the wrongdoing, or where one is led to believe that the other party has agreed to suspend the limitations period during good faith settlement negotiations or due to a fraudulent misrepresentation.

For example, if a complaining party files an action and then fails to cause the papers pertaining thereto to be served on the opposing party within the time established by local rules, and is unable to convince the court that there was good and sufficient reason for the delay, he risks having his action dismissed with prejudice.

For it is our party which is dedicated to good housekeeping — indeed, I would not mind betting that if Mr. Gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the Conservative Party ".

The lord Charles of Bohemia his son, who wrote himself king of Almaine and bare the arms, he came in good order to the battle ; but when he saw that the matter went awry on their party, he departed, I cannot tell you which way.

The key idea behind AFH is to use only the “ good ” frequencies, by avoiding the " bad " frequency channels — perhaps those " bad " frequency channels are experiencing frequency selective fading, or perhaps some third party is trying to communicate on those bands, or perhaps those bands are being actively jammed.

An externality occurs when a transaction causes costs or benefits to third party, often, although not necessarily, from the use of a public good.

Such was the centralized control of information and the intense pressure on party cadres to report only good news — such as production quotas met or exceeded — that information about the escalating disaster was effectively suppressed.

Lyons ' government was cautious and pragmatic, establishing good relations with business and the conservative government in Canberra, but attracting some criticism from unionists within his own party.

A party returning with a head was cause for celebration, as it would bring good luck.

By July 1729 the two vessels were back at Okhotsk, where they were moored alongside the Vostok ; the party, no longer needing to carry shipbuilding materials made good time on the return journey from Okhotsk, and by 28 February 1730 Bering was back in the Russian capital.

The freetekno party is a good example of a Temporary Autonomous Zone.

Examples: " Some people will consider this definition anathema ;" or " Doing homework after school is a complete anathema to her ;" or " That political party would paint as anathema any idea not their own, no matter how good it is.

He apparently spent a good deal of time in Parliament on the Opposition benches before his party won the general election.

Bundestag ballot: constituency vote on left, party list ( showing top five list candidates ) vote on right

Timelines showing the number of seats and percentage of party list votes won are on the right.

Fine Gael is seen as being a constitutional party, with members and public representatives always showing considerable deference to the institutional organs of the Irish state.

This, combined with his eroding image and his bad showing at the party conference, forces him to resign.

A poster for the European Parliament election 2004 in Italy, showing party lists

As it turned out, it would be the best showing by a European Communist party in a free election.

Poster for the European Parliament election 2004 in Italy, showing party lists

India too is showing characteristics of two party system with United Progressive Alliance ( UPA ) and National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) as the two main players.

The moving party, in addition to demonstrating that the plaintiff is vexatious, must make an affirmative showing based on evidence that the case has little chance of prevailing on the merits.

Winston Churchill arranged a screening for a party that included Franklin D. Roosevelt and, on its conclusion, addressed the group, saying, " Gentlemen, I thought this film would interest you, showing great events similar to those in which you have just been taking part.

Anderson's finish was still the best showing for a third party candidate since George Wallace's 14 % in 1968 and the sixth best for any such candidate in the 20th century ( trailing Theodore Roosevelt's 27 % in 1912, Robert LaFollette's 17 % in 1924, Wallace, and Ross Perot's 19 % and 8 % in 1992 and 1996, respectively ).

As a former member of the Communist party, Koestler rises above the dichotomy of much of the Cold War, showing a deep understanding for the origins of the Soviet Revolution, while at the same time severely criticizing its results.

This is intended to ensure that the chancellor's majority does not depend on members of his or her party only outwardly showing support.

This opening sequence set the sombre overall mood of the album, revisited in another Lennon tune, " I Don't Want to Spoil the Party ", which, " consistent in tone with ‘ No Reply ’, ‘ I'm a Loser ’, and ‘ Baby's in Black ’", according to Allmusic, " finds the singer showing up at a party only to find that the girl he expected to find isn't there ".

An affirmative response brings Ness, conscious, back to the last telephone he saved from, with half the money on his person at the time of his defeat, and any other party members showing as still unconscious.

The party challenging the validity of a state statute or municipal ordinance bears the burden of showing that it discriminates against, or places some burden on, interstate commerce.

Under the Minnesota approach, as a preliminary matter, the moving party must meet the burden of showing that the circumstances which bring the case within the purview of SLAPP protection exists.

The fate of the party hung in the balance after its poor showing in the 2008 Legco election.

The 1983 general election had given the Conservatives a triple-digit commons majority, but within months a strong challenge to their power-and to the challenge posed by the Alliance-was showing as Labour leader Michael Foot stepped down and was succeeded by Neil Kinnock, whose modernisation of the party saw a dramatic rise in Labour fortunes in the opinion polls-some of which showed them ahead of the Conservatives and the Alliance by March 1984.

In the 1987 general election, the share of the vote for each party fell slightly ; the Liberals won 17 seats ( the same as in 1983 ), while the SDP won five ( one fewer than four years previously ), while Labour were firmly established as Britain's second political party with a much stronger showing than in 1983, although the Conservatives still achieved a third successive election win with Mrs Thatcher still at the helm.

Whig party ( United States ) | Whig cartoon showing the effects of unemployment

The deserters, " flagging in the rays of the bright sun ", were later overtaken by the party of the Uruk-hai, showing differing tolerance to the sunlight.

LaFollette's 17 % showing represents the third highest showing for a third party since the American Civil War, only surpassed by Roosevelt's 27 % in 1912 and Ross Perot's 19 % in 1992.