Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

And the entirety of the natural world is party to the action.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

The present Republican leadership as practiced by Mundt, Goldwater, Bridges, Dirksen, et al, is repeating the errors of the party leadership of the 1930s.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

The only fact that holds any weight in the article is the result of the tea party.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

`` 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 ''.

Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.

Here is the world of the chauffeured limousine and the gossip reporter, of caviar on stale crackers and the warm martini, of the poseur, the spy, the party crasher, and the patriot, of the rented tails, the double cross, and the tired Lothario.

You've been away from home for the New Year festivities, but now the party is over and you come home.

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

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

Reports are that it is more than probable that the four congressmen from Mississippi who did not support the party ticket will be stripped of the usual patronage which flows to congressmen.

The party is to raise money for the Old Town Art center and to plant more crabapple trees along the streets of Old Town.

It is just bad luck that we are having the party in a month with no R's, so no oysters.

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..

After the Winter of Discontent and the subsequent fall of the Labour government, many corners of the public and media believed that the trade unions were running the Labour Party-an image which Neil Kinnock was keen to shake off after becoming party leader in 1983.

Fadden remained a loyal partner of Menzies, though he was still keen to assert the independence of his party.

The delegates were selected not by primaries but by party organizations in each state, and as political veterans, they had a keen sense of how fast public opinion was changing.

Most of the delegations were selected not by primaries but by party leaders in each state, and they had a keen sense of the fast-changing pulse of public opinion.

There was some speculation that the Country Party would be included in the merger ( as had already happened in several states ), but Fadden was keen to assert the independence of his party.

Nearing ’ s chosen lifestyle of " Tolstoian ," ascetic, rural self-sufficiency may be reasonably interpreted as the attempt of a self-aware dissident individual to avoid inevitably negative participation in the internal life of the group ( be it government or political party ), while retaining a keen and almost obsessive interest in the dynamics of society and the world as a whole.

He is not, however, to be thought of as a keen political adherent of either the Whig or the Tory party ; his caricatures satirized members of all sides of the political spectrum.

Nonetheless his rise in the communist hierarchy was not an easy one, Rákosi's party deputy Ernő Gerő felt his decision to dissolve the party during the war was a rash decision, and others, who worked alongside Kádár during the war felt he had been over-promoted and were keen to put an end to it.

At first, Crusaders weren't too keen on the idea of organizing a party, but when Vegard reminded them that they always complain about how bad other parties are, and that this was their chance to show everyone how it should be done, they agreed.

Naderi was aligned with Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and his Jumbesh-e Milli party, and the competing Tajik-dominated Jamiat Islami party was also keen to seize control of Baghlan as Taliban power eroded.

This decision led to a split by those Radicals who were more keen on an alliance with the centre-right: this group, led by Benedetto Della Vedova, launched the Liberal Reformers and joined the House of Freedoms, eventually merging into Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party.

Despite being a small party, they are also keen supporters of a two-party system.

The choice of Pitt as by-election candidate was resisted by some senior members of the party who were keen to give the SDP a chance to win its first Parliamentary election ( probably with Shirley Williams as the candidate ), but Pitt and the local Liberal Association were insistent and there was no way to force them to cede the candidature.

Williams continued to serve the local community, and organised a coming-of-age party for Madocks ' daughter Eliza at Tremadog, in a style reminiscent of the great festivities on which Madocks was so keen.

An electroluminescent technology back light installation is available from a third party since 2004, but keen eyesight is still required to use the small palmtop effectively without resorting to using its 2x and 4x zoom modes.

" In a letter to The Irish Times, Dardis – who is a keen angler, – replied that the party had opposed drift-netting since 1999.

He did so as an independent candidate on the list of the Italian Communist Party, which by then had become a Eurocommunist party and was keen to have prominent independent figures to stand on its list of candidates.

Giry took a keen interest in politics, joining the republican party and writing numerous articles in the republican newspapers, mainly on historical subjects.

Some of the hard working and keen mothers willingly gave a hand on a cake stall .. we had a folk dancing display ... That garden party was the incentive that sparked off bigger and brighter fund raising activities and the parents formed a great committee which set up Edge Hill as one of the best equipped schools in Queensland .."

Nevertheless, he found it a necessary evil in order to maintain party unity and ensure the loyalty of his fellow Liberals.

It has been the tradition of the Liberal party consistently to maintain the doctrine of individual liberty.

Chairwoman Tsai insisted on the need for the party to remember its history, defend Taiwan's sovereignty and national security, and maintain its confidence.

The dominance of the Christian Democratic party during much of the postwar period lent continuity and comparative stability to Italy's political situation, mainly dominated by the attempt of keeping the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) out of power, to maintain Cold War equilibrium in the region.

Crucially, Cannon exercised these powers to maintain discipline within the ranks of his own party: the Republicans were divided into the conservative " Old Guard ," led by Cannon, and the progressives, led by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Support for the Nationals in the 2006 Victorian state election was considerable with the party picking up two extra seats in the Lower House to maintain its total representation of 11 sitting members ( two Upper House seats were lost, mostly due to a change from preferential to proportional representation ).

In other words, the nondisclosure agreement typically only requires the receiving party to maintain information in confidence when that information has been directly supplied by the disclosing party.

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions.

Nevertheless, in all governmental institutions in the PRC, the party committees at all levels maintain an important role.

However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maintain administrative stability, the viceroy will call to form a government the individual most likely to receive the support, or confidence, of a majority of the directly-elected House of Commons ; as a practical matter, this is often the leader of a party whose members form a majority, or a very large plurality, of Members of Parliament ( MPs ).

Should the prime minister's party achieve a minority while an opposition party wins a plurality — i. e., more seats than any other party but less than a majority — the prime minister can attempt to maintain the confidence of the House by forming a coalition with other minority parties.

However, towards the end of his term and largely as a result of the deep divisions within Likud over Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, Sharon broke away from his party to form Kadima, managing to maintain his position as Prime Minister and also becoming the first Prime Minister not to be a member of either Labour or Likud ( or their predecessors ).

To maintain the political power and security of the Nazi party ( and later the nation ), the SS established and ran the SD ( Security service ) and took over the administration of Gestapo ( Secret state police ), Kripo ( criminal investigative police ), and the Orpo ( regular uniformed police ).

According to biographers, Saddam never forgot the tensions within the first Ba ' athist government, which formed the basis for his measures to promote Ba ' ath party unity as well as his resolve to maintain power and programs to ensure social stability.

Though coalition and minority governments have been an occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament.

In a bid to maintain party unity, Dewey, a moderate, chose the conservative Bricker as his running mate ; Bricker was nominated by acclamation.

The SED celebrated its achievements as the " most successful party on German soil ", praised East Germany as a " politically stable and economically efficient socialist state ", and declared its intention to maintain its present policy course.

States that are party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works recognize separately copyrights and moral rights, with moral rights including the right of the actual creators to publicly identify themselves as such, and to maintain the integrity of their work.

He was known as a politician who tried to maintain a neutral position in the various conflicts within the party, particularly after the unification of Vietnam in 1975.

The PQ was unable to maintain this momentum, and in the 2007 provincial election, the party fell to 36 seats and behind the conservative Action démocratique du Québec ( ADQ ) in number of seats and the popular vote: this is the first time since 1973 that the party did not form the government or Official Opposition.