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.

About 40 % of the population in Ulan Bator live in apartments, with about 80 % of them supplied with central heating systems from three combined heat and power plants ( CHP ).

These three instances suggest that while periods of political opportunism might have existed in its history, the CHP basically seemed to conform to a prescribed, confessional " testimonial party " model.

In seasons one to three, the shoulder patch is essentially the CHP patch with " California " and " Eureka " ( state motto ) removed ; the California bear and other California state seal elements are retained.

For three decades, these larger CHP systems were more economically justifiable than micro-CHP, due to the economy of scale.

Spencer's potential followers were openly sullen and morose, missing muster without excuse, expressing in ominous tones their displeasure at the prisoners being kept in irons, communicating with the three by glance and signal.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

In the 1935 general election, just 17 Liberal MPs were elected, along with Lloyd George and three followers as " independent Liberals ".

Jasmuheen has denied any involvement with the three deaths and claims she cannot be held responsible for the actions of her followers.

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

The back or second ( verso ) side of Folio 1, in a half-page illustration, depicts the initial stages of the creation of the Libro de juegos, accompanied by text on the bottom half of the page, and the front or first ( recto ) side of Folio 2 depicts the transmission of the game of chess from an Indian Philosopher-King to three followers.

* 1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.

Uniquely among the followers of Jesus, she is specified by name ( though not consistently by any one gospel ) as a witness to three key events: Jesus ' crucifixion, his burial, and the discovery of his tomb to be empty.

This has caused organizations to form to deal with the problem, who can be divided into three camps: those who seek peaceful coexistence between mutants and normal humans ( the X-Men and their affiliated groups ), those who seek to control or eliminate humans to give mutants safety or dominance ( Magneto and his followers, as well as other mutants such as Apocalypse ), and those who seek to regulate or eliminate mutants in favor of humans.

The Nation of Islam continues to teach its followers that the present world society is segmented into three distinct categories.

* 1867 – Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome ( it would be achieved three years later ).

After all attempts to silence or kill Nichiren failed, persecution turned towards his followers, the most famous of was the Atsuhara Persecution ( 1280 ), where three of Nichiren Buddhist were beheaded.

The Salafi movement attracts followers from various schools of fiqh, and is based on the Quran, Sunnah and the actions and sayings of the first three generations of Muslims.

The followers of Catholicism believe that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three persons of one being ( consubstantiality ), as opposed to Arian Christianity, whose followers believed that Jesus, as a distinct and separate being, was both subordinate to and created by God.

There is no mention of a Matthias among the lists of disciples or followers of Jesus in the three synoptic gospels.

Some time later, when the Roman armies led by Pompey and Varro Lucullus were recalled to Italy in support of Crassus, Spartacus decided to fight rather than find himself and his followers trapped between three armies, two of them returning from overseas action.

The reasons for the Odo commission theory include: 1 ) three of the bishop's followers mentioned in the Domesday Book appear on the tapestry ; 2 ) it was found in Bayeux Cathedral, built by Odo ; and 3 ) it may have been commissioned at the same time as the cathedral's construction in the 1070s, possibly completed by 1077 in time for display on the cathedral's dedication.

It was divided into three main ( infantry ) formations, a force of light cavalry, and the camp followers ( who took part at the end of the battle ).

Balaam is pictured as blind of one eye and lame in one foot ( Talmud Sanhedrin 105a ); and his disciples ( followers ) are distinguished by three morally corrupt qualities, supposedly the very opposite of those characterizing the disciples of Abraham ( Ab.

Paon de Ruet may have been impelled to seek his fortune in England by the recital of the exploits of Fastre de Ruet, who accompanied John of Beaumont in 1326, when, with three hundred followers, he went to assist the English against the Scots.

After hearing of this betrayal, Fergus, Cormac and Dubthach burn Emain Macha and defect to Connacht with three thousand followers, where they enter the service of king Ailill mac Máta and queen Medb.

Preaching at three mosques in the New York City area, Abdel-Rahman was soon surrounded by a core group of devoted followers that included persons who became responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Eventually, his ministry and followers increased dramatically, and a new three story building near the PR # 2 state road was built to accommodate the attending public.