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.

Membership in the party ultimately became a privilege, with a small subset of the general population of Party becoming an elite class or nomenklatura in Soviet society.

Throughout the country, voters crossed off the ballot unopposed communist candidates, many of them prominent party officials, taking advantage of the nominal privilege of withholding approval of the listed candidates.

Otherwise, he will be continually tempted to make an unfair use of the privilege of the historian ; he will sacrifice the interests of truth to the interests of party, national, or religious, or political.

P. 30 ( 1 ) ( emphasis added ) ( also indicating that " party may instruct a deponent not to answer ... when necessary to preserve a privilege ").

In 1959, Fianna was given the privilege of having its colour party lead the annual pilgrimage to the grave of Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown.

He has claimed that this level of privilege, accompanied by the cruelties of his great-grandfather and the miserliness of his grandfather ( discovered through the reading of old family letters and documents ), was a major reason for his joining the Communist party in his youth.

For instance, if a client has previously disclosed confidential information to a third party who is not an attorney, and then gives the same information to an attorney, the attorney – client privilege will still protect the communication to the attorney, but will not protect the communication with the third party.

In bilateral reciprocal relationships a particular privilege granted by one party only extends to other parties who reciprocate that privilege, while in a multilateral reciprocal relationship the same privilege would be extended to the group that negotiated a particular privilege.

In camera reviews may also be used during otherwise open trials — for example, to protect trade secrets or where one party asserts privilege ( such as attorney – client privileged communications ).

If a communication between lawyer and client is made in the presence of the third party, the privilege is not recognized to exist.

A party who has this privilege is still liable for damage caused.

This defense is therefore more important when there is a concomitant issue of whether the opposing party has a valid privilege of defense of property.

A party who has this privilege, typically a public official or governmental entity, is not liable for any damage caused.

There is some debate on whether the work of a trial consultant is protected under attorney-client privilege, especially when the consultant is hired by a party in the case and not by an attorney.

( Forsyth subsequently violated party policy by using a railway pass as a privilege of elected office, and was expelled from the Patrons in October 1895 ).

For some time after their admission to Parliament, the Jewish MPs belonged to the party that had given them that privilege, the Liberal Party, and Sir George Jessel acted as solicitor-general in William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry.

Exceptions may include information that would likely reveal personal information about a third party, information that cannot be disclosed for certain legal, security, or commercial proprietary reasons, and information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege.

After election, the party in plurality has the privilege to appoint a negotiator to form the government.

By the late 1940s Wentworth had become a fierce anti-Communist, to an extent that even some in his own party regarded an excessive ( though Menzies was more than willing to benefit from his frequent red-baiting ): he was frequently accused of McCarthyism in making allegations under parliamentary privilege, usually unsubstantiated, of Communist influence in various quarters of Australian public life.

In reward for his devotion to the court party during the Fronde, his county of Saint-Aignan was elevated to a dukedom in 1663, with the special privilege of the peerage ( duché-pairie ), making him one of the highest ranking aristocrats of the kingdom of France.

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.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

The party at Floyd's penthouse gave the `` chorines '' a chance for a nostalgic frolic through all those hackneyed routines which have become a classic choreographic statement of the era's nonsense.

Arguments of the parties to the appeal are presented through their appellate lawyers, if represented, or " pro se " if the party has not engaged legal representation.

It assumes that one party has an unlimited amount of information ( usually through some kind of expertise ) and can act as the ‘ information services provider ’ ( pg 268 ) while the other party acts as the ‘ information services consumer ’ ( Bordewijk and Kaam, 1986: 268 )

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

" Johnson frequently alienated his party through a strict adherence to his positions on slavery, the tariff and limited government spending.

The SACP and COSATU have not contested any election in South Africa, but field candidates through the ANC, hold senior positions in the ANC, and influence party policy and dialogue.

Arbitration, in the context of United States law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution — specifically, a legal alternative to litigation whereby the parties to a dispute agree to submit their respective positions ( through agreement or hearing ) to a neutral third party ( the arbitrator ( s ) or arbiter ( s )) for resolution.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 % of the national party vote or three ( directly elected ) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

It grew out of the Whig Party in 1859, and William Gladstone carried the party through governments in the late 19th century.

The party split over the issue of Irish Home Rule, but returned to power in 1906 through a landslide victory.

Attlee led Labour through the 1935 general election, which saw the party stage a partial recovery from its disastrous performance in 1931.

Coercion () is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner ( whether through action or inaction ) by use of threats or intimidation or some other form of pressure or force.

Mostly this has been achieved through control of and support for civil institutions, the church and the armed forces, rather than through party politics.

In Joan Ruddock's file, MI5 recorded special branch references to her movements — usually public meetings — and kept press cuttings and the products of mail and telephone intercepts obtained through active investigation of other targets, such as the Communist party and John Cox.

Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.

The party was small at first, but grew intermittently through the 1920s.

Watson finds that rigid caste strata system continued after China's communist revolution, and was actively exploited in rural regions by party officials for control, at least through 1960s.

Under Lenin the party ruled through the government, for instance, the only political office held by Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, but following Lenin's health the party took control of government activities.