(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
(v.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
(v.) Cause; side; interest.
(v.) A person; as, he is a queer party.
(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
(v.) Partial; favoring one party.
(adv.) Partly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(3) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(4) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(5) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(8) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(9) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(10) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
(11) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(12) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(13) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(14) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
(15) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(16) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
(17) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(18) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(19) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(20) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.
Symposium
Definition:
(n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
(n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
(2) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(3) This explains why this symposium is devoted to NSAIDs and elderly.
(4) A symposium entitled "Foetal and Neonatal Cell Transplantation and Retroviral Gene Therapy" recently organized under the aegis of the Mérieux Foundation in Annecy, France, brought together 100 scientists and clinicians from European countries and the United States.
(5) This paper reviews the most important issues discussed in a 2-day symposium on corporate exposure limits which was sponsored by the AIHA Workplace Environment Exposure Limits Committee (WEEL).
(6) The virtues of transvaginal scanning both in gynecology and obstetrics are well described in subsequent articles in this symposium.
(7) This sounds very much like the reaction of most participants of the Edinburgh symposium to the proposals of Gitelson.
(8) The intramuscular imipenem formulation has been proven to be effective for mild to moderate infections of many body sites, as demonstrated by other papers in this symposium.
(9) But a novel drug combination unveiled at the Aids 2014 symposium in Melbourne on Monday for the first time allows tuberculosis (TB) to be treated in patients while they are taking their HIV drugs, offering the potential to save millions of lives.
(10) We counted the symposiums published in 58 journals of clinical medicine and surveyed the journal editors regarding their policies for symposium issues.
(11) The benefits and risks of oral contraceptives, IUD and abortion are appraised at an international symposium in Montreal.
(12) Eight research protocols which had previously been approved by Ethical Research Committees (ERCs) were reviewed in simulated review committees set up during a symposium on medical ethics.
(13) Progress since the Pennsylvania Symposium has been considerable for questions of 'where' and 'when': localization of symptoms ('where') fields a double gradient (up-down and back-to-front) in monkeys, and a right-left difference in man; analysis of time factors ('when') distinguishes early and late lesions, single and serial removals, or succeeds in recording and stimulating at critical moments during performance.
(14) Included in the symposium are descriptions of the biochemistry of free radicals and evidence of their direct toxic effects on the heart, as well as discussions concerning the effect of oxygen free radical scavengers on myocardial infarct size, the stunned myocardium, and cardiac preservation during surgery.
(15) This symposium paper is a digest of three full-length manuscripts currently in press with J Membrane Biology (see reference list).
(16) Several contributions of this senna symposium bring complementary information of utmost interest.
(17) According to materials of the symposium at the XVI All-Union Congress of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists the author presents some trends in the improvement of teaching epidemiology, including renovation of the programs and teaching plans at the sanitary-hygienic faculty, development of practical habits and rationalization in the organization of practical work at the therapeutic and pediatric faculties.
(18) Many of these have been discussed elsewhere in this symposium.
(19) An attempt is made to lead into a more detailed discussion about the specific compromised hosts that are discussed in the rest of the symposium.
(20) The Oxford International Symposium on myocardial preservation provided an appropriate milestone and impetus to survey one aspect of operative myocardial preservation, namely blood cardioplegia, and to contrast it with the more popular crystalloid cardioplegia.