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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.

party and even
He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.
Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.
As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.
After an appropriate delay without a return, these will then organise a search party ( usually made up by other cavers trained in cave rescues, as even professional emergency personnel are unlikely to have the skills to effect a rescue in difficult conditions ).
Majority governments based on a single party are typically even more stable, as long as their majority can be maintained.
In the case of a divorce, the right of the innocent party to marry again was denied so long as the other party was alive, even if the other party had committed adultery.
Trotsky's views went unheeded until 1923, when the Politburo announced a resolution where it reaffirmed party democracy, and even declared the possibility of ending the appointment powers of the center.
The nomenklatura system came under attack ; several delegates asked why the leading party members had rights to a better life, at least materially, and why the leadership was more-or-less untouchable, as they had been under Leonid Brezhnev, even if their incompetence was clear to everyone.
In the resulting February 1990 elections, Violeta Chamorro and her party the UNO won an upset victory of 55 % to 41 % over Daniel Ortega, even though polls leading up to the election had clearly indicated an FSLN victory.
When caught and killed, the meal is distributed to all hunting party members and even bystanders.
The relative ease of interfacing spawned a huge market of third party add-ons for the PDP-11, which made the machine even more useful.
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.
The new party contested the 1986 election even though competing parties remained illegal under national law until the next year.
According to another opinion, he did not join the first party so as not to compete, even involuntarily, with Jeshua ben Jozadak for the office of chief priest.
After 1944 Communists were a factor to consider for a few decades, and the Finnish People's Democratic League, formed by Communists and others to the left of Social Democrats, even was the largest party after 1958 elections.
She even manages to persuade Agnes to return with her to the other party.
Before the party has even begun rumors of an adulterous relationship between Ashley and Scarlett have started, and Rhett and Melanie have heard the gossip.
But neither at the Convention of Schwabach nor at that of Schmalkalden did George approve armed resistance against the emperor and his party, even in self-defense.
The Labour Party generally opposed these changes, although after the party became New Labour, the Blair government retained elements of competition and even extended it, allowing private health care providers to bid for NHS work.

party and fielded
In the 1970s it became a fully-fledged political party, and since then it has fielded candidates in elections to Westminster and the European Parliament, as well as local government in Cornwall.
The Alberta Alliance continued to grow following the federal party's merger, and the provincial party fielded a full slate of candidates for the 2004 provincial election, on November 22, 2004, and won one seat in the Legislature.
The first Green Party in North America, was formed in British Columbia, Canada on February 4, 1983, registering as both a provincial society and a political party shortly before the 1983 provincial election in which it fielded four candidates and received 0. 19 % of the vote under the leadership of Adriane Carr.
In the 1986 provincial election, the party won 0. 23 % of the vote and fielded nine candidates.
In 1832, the party fielded William Wirt as its presidential candidate.
K. S. Venkatakrishna Reddiar was elected President and the party fielded candidates in 55 constituencies in the 1957 state assembly elections, to emerge as the second largest party in Madras state with 13 seats in the legislative assembly.
The minimum number of signatures for a presidential candidate fielded by a political party with no parliamentary representation is 100, 000, down from 2 million before amendmends to the law.
Due to the needs of the state parties to collect signatures, the party fielded several different vice presidential nominees, including Chicago activist Peggy Terry, activist Rodolfo " Corky " Gonzales, radical economist Doug Dowd, and Judith Mage, who had been nominated at the national convention.
In the 2000 federal election, the party fielded 111 candidates, up from 78 in 1997.
The party fielded Presidential tickets three times — in the elections of 1876, 1880, and 1884, before fading away.
The party fielded twelve candidates in the June 2009 local elections.
The party fielded Malachy Steenson in the Dublin Central by-election on the same date.
In the 1981 general election the party fielded 7 candidates, with Noël Browne elected for Dublin North – Central.
In the 2008 election the Alliance fielded candidates in all major New Zealand centres, contesting 15 electorate seats and running a party list of 30 candidates under the co-leaders Kay Murray and Andrew McKenzie.
Founded in 1963, the party fielded humorous candidates in many ridings with a satirical platform.
The party had fielded a number of new, high-profile candidates, including Justin Keating, Conor Cruise O ' Brien, David Thornley, and Noël Browne.
The party fielded candidates in 12 district council elections.
The party fielded a candidate in the 3 March 2011 local by-election for the Walkden North ward for Salford City Council.
The party fielded a candidate, Kent based Steve Uncles, in the Welsh Assembly constituency of Monmouth, in line with their view that Monmouthshire should be returned to English governance.
The party fielded 101 candidates in the local elections in England, including district council elections, mayoral contests and elections to the Greater London Assembly.
At the 2005 General Election the party fielded one candidate, in Sittingbourne and Sheppey, who managed to poll more votes than the Veritas candidate.
It has not fielded a candidate for governor in 2006 or 2010, making it impossible for the party to gain automatic ballot access until at least the 2014 election.
The party fielded eight candidates for the March 3, 2008 Alberta general election.
The apex of the party was in the 1912 election when it fielded 17 candidates, winning two seats in the legislature, and 11 % of the popular vote.

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