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.

However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.

He kept close tabs on all phases of the military effort, consulted with governors, and selected generals based on their past success ( as well as their state and party ).

Martov, until then a close friend of Lenin, agreed with him that the core of the party should consist of professional revolutionaries, but argued that party membership should be open to sympathizers, revolutionary workers and other fellow travelers.

The Irish Republican political party, Sinn Féin is also known to have close political links to the Cuban government.

The close collaboration of the ruling party, the elite bureaucracy and important interest groups often make it difficult to tell who exactly is responsible for specific policy decisions.

In 1923, Malevich was appointed director of Petrograd State Institute of Artistic Culture, which was forced to close in 1926 after a Communist party newspaper called it " a government-supported monastery " rife with " counterrevolutionary sermonizing and artistic debauchery.

After an initial support for the anti-Rome party in the Schism of the Three Chapters, Theodelinda remained a close contact and supporter of Pope Gregory I.

The party is a member of the European Free Alliance and has close links with Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and the Breton Democratic Union.

The party has close links with Plaid Cymru ( their partner in the EFA ) including a twinning arrangement with Plaid's Blaenau Gwent branch, and to a lesser extent with the SNP.

NUNW maintains a close affiliation with the ruling SWAPO party.

The theory is that the extreme offer will cause the other party to reevaluate his or her own opening offer and move close to the resistance point ( as far as you are willing to go to reach an agreement ).

This method takes advantage of the other party ’ s desire to close by adding “ just one more thing .”

The ability to adapt to the various internal procedures of the contracting party, and to form close links with the nominated representatives, is essential in ensuring that the key issues of cost, time, quality and above all, client satisfaction, can be realized.

His socialist values and his close ties with Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) intellectuals ( including F. R. Scott, Eugene Forsey, Michael Kelway Oliver and Charles Taylor ) led to his support and membership in that federal social-democratic party throughout the 1950s.

Then Donald Woods, a journalist, editor and close friend of Biko's, along with Helen Zille, later leader of the Democratic Alliance political party, exposed the truth behind Biko's death.

Daniel Ortega remained the head of the FSLN, but his brother Humberto resigned from the party and remained at the head of the Sandinista Army, becoming a close confidante and supporter of Chamorro.

His progressive views gained little support due to the rightward shift of the party, and to Republican resentment over Willkie's close collaboration with Roosevelt.

His speech, delivered at the close of the debate on the party platform, electrified the convention and is generally credited with getting him the nomination for president.

The spoiler effect describes the effect a minor party candidate with little chance of winning has in a close election, when that candidate's presence in the election draws votes from a major candidate similar to him / her, thereby causing the opposing candidate to win.

The fact that he was not a member was known only to a very small circle of party leaders at the time, and it did not become known to the public until the year 2007, when the silence was finally broken by Erhard's close advisor Horst Wünsche.

Anderson faced a huge number of obstacles as a non-major party candidate: having to qualify for 51 ballots ( which the major parties appeared on automatically ), having to raise money to run a campaign ( the major parties received close to $ 30 million in government money for their campaigns ), having to win national coverage, having to build a campaign overnight, and having to find a suitable running mate among them.

Although closely identified with the Republican Party for virtually his entire adult life, Dewey was a close friend of Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Dewey aided Humphrey in being named as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1964, advising Lyndon Johnson on ways to block efforts at the party convention by Kennedy loyalists to stampede Robert Kennedy onto the ticket as Johnson's running mate.

Instead the new party renewed the close ties that SDAP had with other socialist organisations ( see linked organisations ).

When the non-socialist formed government in 1976, Bildt came to serve as the Moderate party coordinator in his capacity as close collaborator of the then party leader and Minister of Economy Gösta Bohman.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

Unlike China, which established new ties across a broad political spectrum, North Korea concentrated its diplomatic efforts in Europe with those countries with a strong communist or socialist party, such as Finland, West Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.

Meteorologist Susan Solomon's 2001 account The Coldest March ties the fate of Scott's party to the extraordinarily adverse Barrier weather conditions of February and March 1912 rather than to personal or organizational failings, although Solomon accepts the validity of some of the criticisms of Scott.

At the same time, the Communist Party of Uzbekistan voted to cut its ties with the CPSU ; three months later, it changed its name to the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan ( PDPU ), but the party leadership, under President Islam Karimov, remained in place.

This was a very different position from the one kept in similar cases ( such as the kidnapping of Campanian DC member Ciro Cirillo a few years later, for whom a ransom was paid, thanks to the local ties of the party with camorra ) before.

Thus, the essential first step in any successful assertion of Southern rights had to be the jettisoning of all party ties.

It has strong informal ties to the Parti Québécois ( PQ, whose members are known as " Péquistes "), the provincial party that advocates for the secession of Quebec from Canada and its independence, but the two are not linked organizationally.

The party could participate in those elections, but then was declared illegal by a court ruling because of ties with Batasuna, which prevented it from contesting the Spanish regional elections, 2007.

Then, in September 2008 the full legal inquiry on the party was finalized, ruling that ANV as a whole was illegal, due to ties with Batasuna-ETA.

Similar is the Shiromani Akali Dal, which is a Sikh religious party but maintains ties with Hindutva organizations, as they also represent Sikhism.

The party traditionally has support from the labour movement, but unlike most other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal.

Each judge had strong ties to the party in power at the time of their appointment.

He was a member of the Kurdish Democratic Society Party until the Constitutional Court of Turkey banned that party on 11 December 2009 for alleged ties to the Kurdistan Workers ' Party, banning him and 36 other members of that now-disbanded political party from joining any political party for five years.

Having closer ties to the pasha than most, France refused to be a party to coercive measures against Ali despite having signed the note in the previous year.

Due to a growing isolation of the Republika Srpska after the peace was signed, she severed her ties with the SDS and formed Srpski narodni savez ( Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska ), and nominated Milorad Dodik, the then member of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska whose SNSD party had only two MPs, for Prime Minister.

The importance and pervasiveness of personal ties between Diet members and faction leaders and between citizens and Diet members gave the party a pragmatic " you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours " character.

Yoshida and the DLP dropped most of their ties with Tanaka, removed him from his official party posts, and refused to fund his next re-election bid.

He was a leader of the peace faction of the Democratic party, with close ties to the Copperheads.

According to Nicole Gaouette, in her report published in the Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2007, Juan José Daboub — the managing director whom Wolfowitz had appointed who has also been criticized for overly-conservative policies concerning climate change and " a Roman Catholic with ties to a conservative Salvadoran political party "— repeatedly deleted references to family planning from World Bank proposals.

Initially, the Japanese believed that, due to his Nazi party membership and German ties, Sorge was an Abwehr agent.