Blair has come to a town meeting this March night to pit his personal appeal against the gathering individual annoyances with his government, and milling about the auditorium is the kind of crowd to test his ability to practice his inclusive politics.
Focus groups are not the best method for gathering individual level data or in-depth life stories.
I get the importance of gathering individual stories or anecdotes and the power they have when told in a compelling and emotional way.
I would imagine that a brood of vipers would be a most unpleasant gathering: individual serpents slithering over one another to get at prey, hissing warnings, striking at one another, all in an effort to get an advantage.
Qualitative methods are helpful for giving explanations of complex phenomena (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005; Kuper, Reeves, & Levinson, 2008), and gathering individual perceptions and insights into peoples' lives.
Set the stage for gathering individual thoughts.
To reduce the costs associated with information-gathering, individuals make use of heuristics when forming an opinion about their representative (Ferejohn, 1990).
Oddly, "Better Homes" doesn't really address technology in the domestic sphere — for instance, the rise of the alone-together family gathering, with individuals united around a dinner table but distracted by their individual screens.
"It is not a self-involved gathering of individuals, but a place to develop programs and processes to make our peers engage," he said.
What Cleverly has written is a cunning variation on the country-house whodunit, with its formula of gathering fractious individuals in an intimate setting and closely observing them to detect the killer.
"We are continuing to try to identify all of the different conspirators that are involved in both gathering the individuals from Central America and Mexico and then smuggling them across the border," the United States attorney for the Southern District of Texas, Michael T. Shelby, said this afternoon.
