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.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

Nevertheless the conference was considered a success in bringing researchers together and Oxford conferences have continued every four or five years at locations around the world.

This ' Alphabetical ' edition was combined with the ' Select ' edition by some unknown Byzantine scholar, bringing together all the nineteen plays that survive today.

Epicurus the Sage is a two-part comic book by William Messner-Loebs and Sam Kieth portraying Epicurus as " the only sane philosopher " by anachronistically bringing him together with many other well-known Greek philosophers.

The full congress was held subsequently in Madrid, bringing together representatives of cities all over the world.

The Monday market has been fulfilling its age-old function of bringing people together since the times when people could not afford to travel far and it provided them with a chance to socialise.

His publication and design of the classic audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU between 1958 and 1974, each issue containing recordings as well as texts, images, screenprints and multiples, brought together international contemporary writers and artists such as members of Lettrisme and Fluxus, Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as bringing the work of survivors from earlier generations such as Raoul Hausmann and Marcel Janco to a fresh audience.

In the context of psycho-therapy Hermes is our inner friendliness bringing together the disparate and perhaps isolated core elements of our selves belonging to the realms of the other gods ;

* The ICT Security Standards Roadmap has been developed to assist in the development of security standards by bringing together information about existing standards and current standards work in key standards development organizations.

The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ) is an umbrella organization founded in 1995 bringing together many Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists.

In May 1791, the Assembly declared that the Louvre would be " a place for bringing together monuments of all the sciences and arts ".

President Adamkus played a key role in bringing the new centrist parties together.

In 1830, Professor Carl Adolph Agardh formed Akademiska Föreningen ( The Academic Society ), commonly referred to as AF, with the goal of " developing and cultivating the academic life " by bringing students and faculty from all departments and student nations together in one organization.

Under Liutprand, the Catholicism became real as the king sought to justify his title rex totius Italiae by uniting the south of the peninsula with the north and bringing together his Italo-Roman subjects and his Germanic into one Catholic state.

In 1217, Alfonso had captured the Kingdom of Murcia, on the Mediterranean coast south of Valencia, for his father, King Alfonso IX, thereby unifying the kingdoms of Castile and León, bringing together the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula under one Christian throne.

On 16 April 2003 in Athens, Miller, together with Cimoszewicz, signed the Accession Treaty, bringing Poland into the European Union.

Metaphor and analogy both work by bringing together two concepts from different conceptual domains, whereas metonymy works by using one element from a given domain to refer to another closely related element.

King Prithvi Narayan Shah was successful in bringing together diverse religio-ethnic groups under one national.

Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

Hasdrubal was assassinated around the same time ( 221 BC ), bringing Hannibal to the fore.

The next step of this became the competition between the Mercury Project and the Soviet Vostok Program of bringing a pilot into space and in orbit around the Earth.

Astronomers know today that the Earth revolving around the sun is tilted on its axis, bringing each hemisphere now closer to the sun, now further away.

Hasdrubal was assassinated around the same time ( 221 BC ), bringing Hannibal to the fore.

They represented the furthest expansion of humans into the Pacific until the expansion of Austronesian-language speakers through the area around 4000 BC, bringing new agricultural and maritime technology.

Because of the structure of the programmes and its unique global status, the University has an academic calendar that enables bringing on board the most highly acclaimed academicians and practitioners from around the world.

The World Service aims to be " the world's best-known and most-respected voice in international broadcasting, thereby bringing benefit to the UK, the BBC and to audiences around the world " while retaining a " balanced British view " of international developments.

Other organizations Judd has been involved with include the Women for Women International, and Equality Now, along with other non-governmental organizations which center around bringing attention to social, educational, health, economic, cultural, and financial funding of the unfortunate.

Napoleon succeeded in bringing the total imperial forces in the region to around 650, 000 — although only 250, 000 came under his direct command, with another 120, 000 under Nicolas Charles Oudinot and 30, 000 under Davout.

Napoleon had succeeded in bringing most of Western Europe under one rule — a feat that had not been accomplished since the days of the Roman Empire ( although Charlemagne had nearly done so around 800 CE ).

In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the change they were bringing about.

During the first several decades of the 20th century, Germans settled around the United States, bringing the values of the Wandervogel with them.

It has since been theorized that Scarlet Witch's spell of " No more mutants " angered the Phoenix, and in order to calm the entity, a new host was needed along with five acolytes, to succeed and bringing evolution ( the acolytes were actually the first five new mutants that have appeared around the globe since the decimation of the mutant population ), and that was the reason why the Phoenix came to Earth.

The good news was some of those allocated forces were already forward at Milne Bay, where he was setting a trap with the veteran mid-East blooded 7th Australian Division, for he fully expected the Japanese would continue trans-coastal landings in an attempt to out flank Port Moresby, bringing ground forces in and around the point, in an end-around past the eastern tip of New Guinea and land on undefended beaches there.

When it was time for Helen to marry, many kings and princes from around the world came to seek her hand, bringing rich gifts with them, or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf.

Due to Viking raids the monastic community left Lindisfarne in around 875, bringing with them Cuthbert ’ s body, relics, and books including the Lindisfarne Gospels ( BBC Tyne 2012 ) and the St Cuthbert Gospel.

The 1960s saw a period of rapid growth in Northridge, with new housing develops and freeways bringing in new families from around the country.

She roamed the ancient kingdom of Lycia, particularly around Mount Chimaera ( possibly near Yanartaş ), bringing bad omens and destruction in her wake, until she was slain by Bellerophon and Pegasus at the behest of Iobates.

In one story, Tezcatlipoca transformed himself into Mixcoatl and invented the fire drill by revolving the heavens around their axes, bringing fire to humanity.

Grades 9-12 attend MCHS bringing the total number of students to around 10, 000.

In 1910 a small western portion of Berkeley County, around Holly Hill and Eutawville, was annexed to Orangeburg County, thus bringing the county to its present size.