That settled it, and we broke into parties of two and three.

Swapping among three parties often helps satisfy tastes when trying to get around the rule that money is not allowed.

It is difficult to describe the parties and politics of Judah in this period because of the lack of historical source, but there seem to have been three important groups involved: the returnees from the exile who claimed the reconstruction with the support of Cyrus I ; " the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin "; and a third group, " people of the land ," who seem to be local opposition against the returnees building the Temple in Jerusalem.

Because the government refused to consider opposition demands for an independent election commission, the three major opposition parties boycotted the October 1997 presidential election, which Biya easily won.

The Combo law was supported by both major parties at the time ( PLN and PUSC ) as well as by President Rodriguez, but the first of three required legislative votes to approve it provoked the largest protest demonstrations the country had seen since 1970.

His greatest achievement, surpassing many of these, was, perhaps, the establishment of a political and economic consensus about the governance of Britain that all parties, whether Labour, Conservative or Liberal subscribed to for three decades, fixing the arena of political discourse until the later 1970s.

The following table is ranked for the power the member states exert on Council decisions, and lists their population figures ( criterion three ) and voting weights ( criterion two ) along with their ruling parties and affiliations to European parties.

Compared to only three parties allowed to exist in the New Order era, a total of 48 political parties participated in the 1999 election, a total of 24 parties in the 2004 election, and 38 parties in the 2009 election.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

The three remaining EFA member parties in Parliament ( SNP, VU and Canarian Coalition ) formed a common group with the French Energie Radicale list and the Italian Pannella List.

Finland has a multi-party system, with three strong parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

One possibility was a partnership between the FDP, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and the Alliance 90 / The Greens, known as a " traffic light coalition ", named after the colors of the three parties.

The other possibility was a CDU-FDP-Green coalition, known as a " Jamaica coalition " because of the colours of the three parties.

The three smaller parties thus have more seats in the German Bundestag than ever before, with the liberal party FDP winning 14. 6 % of votes.

The New Nation Alliance ( ANN ) won 9 legislative seats, and three minority parties won the remaining four.

The next three most popular parties were the SVP ( 19. 92 %), the Green Party ( 17. 96 %) and the LPS Party ( 13. 43 %).

Preliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on July 10, and on July 22, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

Politically, these opposition forces organized into three competing parties: The liberal elements among the industrial capitalists and nobility, who believed in peaceful social reform and a constitutional monarchy, founded the Constitutional Democratic party or Kadets in 1905.

Until 1991, President Mauno Koivisto and two of the three major parties, Center Party and the Social Democrats opposed the idea of European Union membership and preferred entering into the European Economic Area treaty.

Officially, all three major parties were supporting the Union membership, but members of all parties participated in the campaign against the membership.

One method of building a mooring is to use three or more conventional anchors laid out with short lengths of chain attached to a swivel, so no matter which direction the vessel moves one or more anchors will be aligned to resist the force.

Bonding can be described with three bonding electron pairs and two antibonding electrons, whose spins are aligned, such that the molecule has nonzero total angular momentum.

One can identify three types of distortions that could occur in an oriented sample: ( 1 ) twists of the material, where neighboring molecules are forced to be angled with respect to one another, rather than aligned ; ( 2 ) splay of the material, where bending occurs perpendicular to the director ; and ( 3 ) bend of the material, where the distortion is parallel to the director and molecular axis.

Two quarks can have their spins aligned, in which case the two spin vectors add to make a vector of length S = 1 and three spin projections ( S < sub > z </ sub > = + 1, S < sub > z </ sub > = 0, and S < sub > z </ sub > = − 1 ), called the spin-1 triplet.

Most slide rules consist of three linear strips of the same length, aligned in parallel and interlocked so that the central strip can be moved lengthwise relative to the other two.

He declared Grace " the best-known Englishman of his time " and aligned him with Thomas Arnold and Thomas Hughes as " the three most eminent Victorians ".

If the three arguments of a typical ditransitive verb are labeled D ( for Donor ; the subject of a verb like " to give " in English ), T ( for Theme ; normally the direct object of ditransitive verb in English ) and R ( for Recipient, normally the indirect object in English ), these can be aligned with the Agent and Patient of monotransitive verbs and the Subject of intransitive verbs in several ways, which are not predicted by whether the language is accusative, ergative, or active.

The three inner Galilean satellites are in a resonance with one other such that that whenever two of them are aligned with one another, the third one will always be non-aligned and quite often situated on the opposite side of Jupiter.

China and India have also emerged as friends of Iran ; these three countries face similar challenges in the global economy as they industrialize, and consequently find themselves aligned on a number of issues.

At least three periods of regional deformation have been identified, the most important being large scale isoclinal folding with axes aligned north-west.

Three sets of three arches, those on the entrance front, three more between the vestibule and the salon, and the three leading from the salon to the garden are all aligned and permitted the arriving visitor to see through to the central axis of the garden even before entering the chateau.

Although each method has its individual strengths and weaknesses, all three pairwise methods have difficulty with highly repetitive sequences of low information content-especially where the number of repetitions differ in the two sequences to be aligned.

They are divided into ( or " aligned into ", to use phonology jargon ) three vowel harmony groups by a parameter called ATR ( advanced tongue root ); the groups are − ATR, + ATR, and neutral.

Traditionally, the field consists of 33 starters, aligned in a starting grid of eleven rows of three cars apiece.

Putting his experienced cavalry on the flanks, Hannibal aligned his troops in three straight lines behind his eighty war elephants.

The main airfield consisted of three concrete 6000 ' runways aligned NE / SW, ENE / WSW and NE / SW.

If this causes three or more other symbols to become aligned, they also disappear and the pile settles again.

This effect is amplified on the tributary rivers, where water levels can change by as much as two feet in three hours when winds are aligned with the rivers ' axes and are blowing strongly.

The Tharsis Montes are the three aligned volcanoes left of center.

The three aligned henges of the Thornborough Henges complex

In the thrust phase all three parts create their own wake, and the flat end of the feet acts like a hydrofoil aligned to give maximum forward thrust.

For example, BBC Monitoring's Crowsley Park receiving station has three rhombic antennas aligned for reception at azimuths of 37, 57 and 77 degrees.

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