Brown, who was under some pressure anyway at the start of his second season since succeeding Ashley Giles at Edgbaston, was left in an invidious position as Warwickshire accommodated Jonathan Trott's wishes to come straight back to first-class cricket, four months after his abrupt departure from England's Ashes tour.
In the end only half that number could be accommodated but to do so the organisers had to hire extra venues to cater for meetings on an astonishing range of social and political topics.
We had a rigorous, three-month consultation process led by officers, and the cabinet member for regeneration Rubina Khan was part and parcel of that, and we met the stakeholders and people were quite excited, but of course there was some anxiety and opposition but we made sure we heeded those apprehensions and accommodated them.
The larger, more traditional high-ceilinged "white cube" space in the rear has accommodated a ghostly slide projector installation from English artist Claire Harvey's "life in black and white" miniature world, plus more conventional sculpture and painting exhibitions from established artists such as Folkert de Jong and Sven Kroner.
She correctly concluded by then that the cause of inflation was government, and that governments accommodated high-wage awards and accommodated upward pressure on prices by printing money and that came out as inflation.
It is the law of the jungle – the weak and frightened are pursued and mauled; the strong are respected and accommodated.
I suppose the Express Newspapers' £85m pension deficit could be accommodated in spite of Trinity Mirror's own £301m deficit, but (as a Mirror pensioner myself) I wonder if that would be wise.
"I hope the file size can be accommodated," he wrote.
The committee has said that old industries will need to be accommodated by shifting them out or reskilling workers – a mammoth undertaking.
Researchers at Alexa Internet estimate that the whole internet consisted last summer of three trillion bytes of information, about the total capacity of 5,000 CD-roms - which is compact enough to be accommodated on a single state-of-the-art server computer.
Winter pressures can also be accommodated by, for instance, re-arranging elective operations.
