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..

The party has a comprehensive policy platform, and Peter Kavanagh has referred to the heritage of the historic Democratic Labor Party, claiming that " The DLP remains the only political party in Australia which is pro-family, pro-life and genuinely pro-worker.

The party adopts a strongly pro-life stance, describing abortion as a " crime against humanity " and would repeal the 1967 Abortion Act.

Despite its strongly pro-choice platform, in recent years the party leadership has begun to support pro-life Democrats in some cases.

Baldwin remained with the party, but several conservative state parties subsequently voted to leave the national party, believing it to have unacceptably compromised its pro-life platform ; rump factions have been orchestrated by the national Constitution Party in some of these states.

Running on a pro-life platform, Craswell's third party candidacy ate into the traditional Republican base.

The Montana party's disaffiliation was based on claims that the national party had softened its pro-life stance by failing to disaffiliate another state affiliate, two of whose leaders had publicly contradicted the party's 100 %- pro-life plank.

This election is viewed as a victory of the ' pro-life ,' conservative wing of the state party over the more moderate wing.

The Conservative Party of New Zealand, the current political party most closely aligned with fundamentalist Christianity, does not support restoration of capital punishment, reflecting a more traditional and consistent pro-life Christian position.

At the party's election launch news conference conducted by new leader, Richard Greene stated that the party will campaign on a pro-life and what it calls a ' Euro-Realist ' platform and that it will oppose making the poor pay for the economic crisis.

The Family Coalition Party of British Columbia was a conservative, pro-life political party in British Columbia, Canada.

Some people in the party blamed Casey for Singel's loss, noting that Casey, who was pro-life, gave only lackluster support to the pro-choice Singel.

Tabaré Vázquez during his presidency maintained his pro-life stance, in contrast to the stance of many in his own Socialist Party, leading him to leave his positions in the party.

The Republicans must hold a primary under the county unit system -- a system which the party opposes in its platform.

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 left wing republican party Sinn Féin is a party which opposes the current structure of the European Union and the direction it is moving in.

This party generally opposes Luxembourg's military policies, including its membership in the North Atlantic Treay Organization.

The party opposes foreign aid, asking that no further funds be appropriated for any kind of foreign aid program, and encourage the idea that the United States terminate its participation in international lending institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the Export-Import Bank.

The party opposes illegal immigration and also seeks stricter controls on legal immigration.

The party opposes euthanasia and abortion including in cases of rape and incest.

The party opposes same-sex marriage, and believes state and local governments have the right to criminalize " offensive sexual behavior ".

The party further opposes pornography, believing it to be, at worst, " a destructive element of society resulting in significant and real emotional, physical, spiritual and financial costs to individuals, families and communities ," distinguishable from the American citizen's " cherished First Amendment right to free speech.

In the European Union, the party opposes the entry of Turkey into the EU, preferring instead a privileged partnership with Turkey.

The Democratic Party has attracted criticism from other former oppositionists from communist times, who criticise that the party accepts former members of the post-communist SLD, and strongly opposes the large-scale vetting of officials and politicians ( see Bronisław Wildstein ) aimed at eliminating former state agents from political life.

The party opposes immigration, particularly Muslim immigration from North Africa, West Africa, and the Middle East.

The Democratic Labor Party ( DLP ) is a political party in Australia that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism.

On life issues, the party opposes euthanasia, and abortion, though it can support abortion in cases of rape or when the mother's life is at risk.

On gay rights issues, the party supports possibilities for gay couples to live together, but opposes gay marriage and gay adoption rights.

The party opposes an Israeli constitution until there is a satisfactory balance of power between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

The party condemns the Gaza disengagement plan and opposes further uprooting of Jewish communities and surrender of parts of the Land of Israel in any future Israeli government with the party.

The party opposes privatisation of public services and is critical of globalization.

The party stands for a libertarian economic policy and opposes Swiss EU membership.

In a way that may seem contradictory to traditional liberal ideology, the party generally opposes the legalization of commercial sex or gambling operations.

The NPD calls itself a party of " grandparents and grandchildren " because the 1960s generation in Germany, known for the leftist student movement, strongly opposes the NPD's policies.

" until he reaches his teens ( wearing a uniform similar to that of the Sturmabteilung ) still " marching and heiling " until he becomes an adult or " Good Nazi " ( now in Wehrmacht uniform ) embroiled in hatred towards anyone else who opposes Hitler, " seeing nothing but what the party wants him to see, saying nothing but what the party wants him to say, and doing no more than the party wants him to do.