IF the measure of the great American novel is whether thousands of people will pay to watch a staged reading of its every word in a single seating, interrupted only by a meal and maybe a sipped Manhattan or six, then Jonathan Whatshisname's latest doorstopper is not your book.
In 1915, the hotel's Royal Ballroom was converted into the Royal Apollo Cinema, accommodating more than 1,000 moviegoers in a single seating (it was later renamed the Red Star Cinema, during the city's Communist era).
The final concern expressed by some students was the fact that the video lectures were often over an hour long in length, which made it difficult for them to view them in a single seating.
In July 2011, an absolute majority of MEPs voted in favour of a single seat.
In the 2009 general election, Kadima again led with the most Knesset seats (28); this time, however, Likud finished in second place, a single seat behind Kadima.
Members have voiced requests in favour of a single seat for the European Parliament over the years, arguing for the symbolic value and actual savings such a move would achieve.
In 2003 the UUP was supplanted as the largest unionist party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and in 2005 it captured only a single seat in the British House of Commons to the DUP's nine.
But this strategy has not succeeded in Tamil Nadu: the party won a single seat in the state there in 2014.
In the last results to come in before Northern Ireland, the Conservatives claimed a single seat in Scotland while the Scottish National Party took two.
The INLD fared even worse in elections to the Lok Sabha, failing to win a single seat in the chamber in the 2004 and 2009 contests.
