Democratic societies, by contrast, need to be bonded more powerfully than some chance grouping.

The hope is that this new grouping will eventually supplant the Organization of American States.

(I will elaborate on the reason for this grouping in part two of the analysis.)

C structures allow the grouping of scalar variables, such as the coordinates of a point.

India's parliament is riddled with defections by MPs, who move freely from one party grouping to another.

Apart from the Russian Federation, each grouping is, to a varying extent, a net importer of energy.

It can refer to a city, town, village or a small grouping of them, or a rural area.

But, with Myanmar included, this may be too difficult politically, and an ASEAN sub grouping may be more realistic.

The OECD is a multinational grouping of 30 countries established nearly a half century ago, with Switzerland a member.

Mauritania s leaders quit ECOWAS, the West African regional grouping, to join the union formed by the North African countries.

The Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (English International Federation of Translators) is an international grouping of associations of translators, interpreters and terminologists.

Should such a new grouping have a secretariat to present common proposals, or should it rely solely on meetings of national officials?

ASEAN is likely to host a still wider grouping that includes Russia and the US, though the precise framework is still being debated.

He has revived pan Americanism, and Venezuela has become a member of Mercosur, the regional grouping whose other members include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

The right of center Party of National Action (PAN), the grouping of current President Vicente Fox and Calderón, needs to acquire a sincere and profound social conscience.

NATO, moreover, not only enlarged its membership, but also transformed itself from an anti Communist defensive alliance into an offensive grouping (with operations in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan).

In March 2010, the ASEAN 3 grouping, which includes China, Japan, and South Korea, established a reserve fund of 120 billion, under the so called Chiang Mai Initiative.

With goodwill on all sides, real advantages can materialize from building up this informal grouping, as it is a gateway to the huge markets of Southeast and Northeast Asia.

This shift has been led by an embryonic grouping of elected regional parliamentarians known as the ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Caucus on Democracy in Myanmar (AIPMC), of which I am a member.

If the Constitution is rejected, the British, having chosen to stay out of that grouping, may find that they have maneuvered themselves into an even more remote outer circle of Europe.

Bishop Rowan Edwards of the Lighthouse Assembly Church of God is a member of the Spanish Town Ministers Fraternal, an activist church grouping that holds regular rallies against crime and violence.

The most plausible institutional mechanism for this alternative way forward will be the existing grouping of those member states that have wanted to belong to a more united Europe by joining, or seeking to join, the euro zone. If the Constitution is rejected, the British, having chosen to stay out of that grouping, may find that they have maneuvered themselves into an even more remote outer circle of Europe.

In Italy, a curious rule that provides for the grouping which has a handful of votes more than the other to get a bonus of several dozen seats in the lower house.

Many believe that Cairo is a city. It is in fact a grouping of mini states and emirates connected by strong historical, economic and social ties, but each one is completely independent.

The major international actor, instead, has been the G 7, a grouping dominated by medium sized European states in which Asia s dynamic emerging economies the current source of global savings have no representation.

Half the members of the G 20, the grouping that is now the world s premier forum on international economic questions, will be on the Council, dealing with issues of global peace and security.

Policymakers should already be implementing policies aimed at guiding trends like urbanization, the rise of big data, and the grouping of people into narrow communities, often based on their relationship to the market.

Although the leaders of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia recently declared they wanted to keep the Visegrad grouping alive even after their countries' enter the EU, the future of Visegrad cooperation is uncertain.

Both powers have sought to use the Shanghai Cooperation Organization a regional grouping that includes Russia, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan as a vehicle to pressure the US to withdraw its military forces from the region.

The ever active anti Euro lobby has now spawned a new grouping called NO , led by Lord David Owen, the former foreign secretary, to oppose not just membership of the euro, but even the holding of a referendum on the issue.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, drawing on his personal experience with the Group of 20 finance ministers as well as the G 8, has proposed a new informal grouping that he calls an L 20, with the L signifying that it is restricted to leaders.

South East Europe The flow of trade among countries in this grouping is quite different from that of the countries joining the European Union, with a much more even distribution of imports they are most dependent on outside sources for oil, which accounts for 65 of imports.

And when Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Khadafi, disappointed by the pan Arabism he advocated, turned to championing pan Africanism, his people continued to riot to chase out black immigrants. Mauritania s leaders quit ECOWAS, the West African regional grouping, to join the union formed by the North African countries.

The younger generation of indigenous West Bank Palestinians, whose leaders began political activity in the uprising of the late 1970's, embraces amilitant strategy that views the hardliners as burned out old fogies, enervated by corruption. Unlike the hard line secularists, the militants, whose best known leader is Marwan Barghuti, the head of the Tanzim grassroots grouping in Fatah, are willing to work with the Islamists.