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.

The results of the 1910 elections made it clear to the President that Roosevelt had departed his camp, and that he might even contend for the party nomination in 1912.

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.

In 1966, frustrated with their hopeless efforts, LDC-members departed the VVD altogether and went on now to form an entirely political party -- Democrats 66 ( D66 ).

On 18 December Calcutta departed for Port Jackson, and the party was prepared for evacuation.

After choosing not to fight for the leadership after Duncan Smith departed in 2003, in the interests of party unity, he returned to fight the 2005 election.

Eyre departed Fowlers Bay, South Australia on 17 November 1840 with John Baxter and a party of three Aboriginal men.

The party left Marseilles in late 1849, and departed from Tripoli early in 1850.

By the end of August 1761, a party of escorts departed for Germany to conduct Princess Charlotte to England: the Duchess of Ancaster, the Duchess of Hamilton, both Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Mrs. Tracey, Bedchamber Woman ; Earl Harcourt, Proxy for the King ; and General Graeme.

In July 1808, after a successful trading season, Lisa departed Fort Raymond, leaving behind a small party of men for the winter.

Despite her efforts to build support among women, minority groups and the party's left-wing, she began and ended the leadership contest well behind the overwhelming favourite, Paul Martin, whose supporters controlled the party machinery ; John Manley departed from the running before the vote.

Orwell and O ' Shaughnessy met at a party that Eric ( Orwell ) and Rosalind Obermeyer, gave in the spring of 1935 in Obermeyer's flat in Parliament Hill Road-" when the last guests had departed, he turned to Mrs Obermeyer and said: " Eileen O ' Shaughnessy is the girl I want to marry.

Young flatmates Chrissy and Jo find a stranger, student chef Robin Tripp, asleep in their bath the morning after the farewell party for their departed flatmate Eleanor.

By this time, Stephens had departed the ranks of the Whig party, its northern wing having proved obstinate to Southern interests.

The party departed from Shackleton Base on 24 November 1957.

Just before the referendum in 1991 the SF's party congress had adopted a new program of action and principles, " Mod Nye Tider ( Towards New Times )", which departed from the old anti-EU line.

" In 2006 several younger centrist members also departed from the party.

Bede's treatment of Chad is particularly problematic because he could not conceal that Chad departed from Roman practices in vital ways – not only before the Synod of Whitby, which Bede presents as a total victory for the Roman party and its norms, but even after it.

According to Little Rock's account, a war party of about 200 Cheyennes from a camp above the forks of Walnut Creek departed camp intending to go out against the Pawnee.

This party initially prevailed, and a delegation was dispatched to Athens to make an offer of peace ; the Athenians, however, rejected this offer, and Lysander departed to the Aegean to take command of the fleet for the remainder of the war, which would be decided less than a year later by his total victory at Aegospotami.

Authorities kept approximately 600 protesters behind barriers on the outskirts of the village on that day, they were not permitted inside until the presidential party had departed.

On 2 March the ship departed for New Zealand to winter there, leaving a shore party of 10 with their provisions, equipment and 70 dogs.

Claude Wagner, a judge and a prominent Quebec Liberal cabinet minister who departed provincial politics in 1970, ran successfully as a Progressive Conservative in the 1972 federal election, and was the front-runner in the party leadership convention in 1976 before losing on the final ballot to Joe Clark.

In the spring of 1639 Jonas Bronck and a party of other emigrants, including his good friend the Dane Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, departed the Dutch port of Hoorn on the Zuiderzee.

During the 1950s many activists had departed and the party became little more than a collection of personal electoral machines.

Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, only 17 are not party to the treaty: Andorra, Angola, Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( North Korea ), Federated States of Micronesia, Haiti, Iraq, Kiribati, Lebanon, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Nauru, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan and Tuvalu.

Currently, a total of 159 nations are party to the Ottawa treaty.

After the ratification of the treaty, Bukharin resumed his responsibilities within the party.

# Preparing state party reports for review by the treaty body concerned and following up on decisions and recommendations ;

China is a party to the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Endangered Species treaty, the Hazardous Wastes treaty, the Law of the Sea, the International Tropical Timber Agreements of 1983 and 1994, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and agreements on Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, and Wetlands protection.

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.

Bahrain also became a party to the treaty, and it was assumed by the British and the Bahrainis that Qatar, as a dependency, was also a party to it.

When the text of a treaty is later reprinted, such as in a collection of treaties currently in effect, an editor will often append the dates on which the respective parties ratified the treaty and on which it came into effect for each party.

These must be included at the time of signing or ratification — a party cannot add a reservation after it has already joined a treaty.

When a state limits its treaty obligations through reservations, other states party to that treaty have the option to accept those reservations, object to them, or object and oppose them.

The objecting and opposing state essentially refuses to acknowledge the reserving state is a party to the treaty at all.

When determining the legal obligations of states, one party to the original treaty and one a party to the amended treaty, the states will only be bound by the terms they both agreed upon.

Treaties may be seen as ' self-executing ', in that merely becoming a party puts the treaty and all of its obligations in action.

Other treaties may be non-self-executing and require ' implementing legislation '— a change in the domestic law of a state party that will direct or enable it to fulfill treaty obligations.

An example of a treaty requiring such legislation would be one mandating local prosecution by a party for particular crimes.

No one party to a treaty can impose its particular interpretation of the treaty upon the other parties.