There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

A man does not make that kind of gamble if he suspects that one or more of the limited number of tenure positions is being reserved for members of the `` family ''.

For a number of years, Wesleyan has been drawing varied groups of political and business leaders into these informal discussions with members of the faculty and student body, attempting to explore and clarify aspects of their responsibility for public policy.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

Most members of Asteraceae are herbaceous, but a significant number are also shrubs, vines and trees.

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

On the border of the insignia, there are sixteen stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly Duke.

Furthermore, Pericles employed a number of offices to maintain Athens ' empire: proxenoi, who fostered good relations between Athens and League members ; episkopoi and archontes, who oversaw the collection of tribute ; and hellenotamiai, who received the tribute on Athens ' behalf.

In other cases the forces may be distributed among a large number of members, as in a truss, or not clearly discernible to a casual observer as in a box beam.

A number of the larger societies made such proposals to their members and all were accepted.

The bylaws commonly also specify the number of members of the board, how they are to be chosen, and when they are to meet.

A small number of Boers may also be members of Baptist, Pentecostal or Lutheran Churches.

A number of stories in Greek mythology involve cannibalism, in particular cannibalism of close family members, for example the stories of Thyestes, Tereus and especially Cronus, who was Saturn in the Roman pantheon.

It is alleged that its chief of staff is a Limerick man and that a number of other key members are from that county.

If the Council still does not approve the Parliament's position, then the text is taken to a " Conciliation Committee " composed of the Council members plus an equal number of MEPs.

The REIO would vote at CITES meetings with the number of votes representing the number of members in the REIO, but it would not have any additional vote.

The number of attending members in the three periods varied considerably.

It increased toward the close, but never reached the number of the First Council of Nicaea ( which had 318 members ) nor of the First Vatican Council ( which numbered 744 ).

The United States Constitution mandates that a census be taken every ten years in order to apportion the number of members of the United States House of Representatives among the several states.

As the number of members grow, a single community-wide team may subdivide.

Thus the Rump never had more than two hundred members ( less than half the number of the Commons in the original Long Parliament ).

The number of Standing Committee members varies and has tended to increase over time.

A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as " sleaze ": a perception that the then Conservative government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.

In contrast, relatively few crannogs have been excavated since the Second World War, although this number has steadily grown, especially since the early 1980s and may soon surpass pre-war totals.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Day promoted the annual Spay Day USA, and on a number of occasions, actively lobbied the United States Congress in support of legislation designed to safeguard animal rights.

The discovery of differential cryptanalysis is generally attributed to Eli Biham and Adi Shamir in the late 1980s, who published a number of attacks against various block ciphers and hash functions, including a theoretical weakness in the Data Encryption Standard ( DES ).

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

In Britain, there have since 2001 been created a number of fanzines pastiching children's comics of the 1970s and 1980s ( e. g. Solar Wind, Pony School, etc .).

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

In the late 1980s a similar number of MiG 21's replaced the MiG 17's, also delivered an AN-24, a YAK-40 and anther Mi-8 helicopter.

In the 1980s Guyana Airways Corporation's domestic operations started to deteriorate for a number of reasons, not least among them the unrealistically low fares it was required to charge and the lack of access to foreign exchange for imported aircraft parts and other requirements.

The first accurate estimate of the number of his works were provided by musicologists only during the 1980s and the 1990s, when extensive thematic catalogues were published.

The early 1980s also saw a number of experimental " hyperediting " functions in word processors and hypermedia programs, many of whose features and terminology were later analogous to the World Wide Web.

Gaddafi undertook a number of military adventures during the 1970s to 1980s, including the Chadian – Libyan conflict, the Libyan – Egyptian War and the first Gulf of Sidra incident.

In the 1980s, the number of harmonica learners decreased steadily.

Starting in the 1980s, a number of manufacturers also experimented with rivets in the lower cymbal.

Peel appeared occasionally on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

Following the " kung fu wave " in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s, a number of mainstream films produced during the 1980s contributed significantly to the perception of martial arts in western popular culture.

During the late 1980s and 1990s, it became economical to move an increasing number of peripheral functions onto the motherboard.

The AAF was very significant before and during the 1980s but by the time of the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the number of aircraft available was minimal.

In addition to home computers and game consoles, the 6809 was also utilized in a number of arcade games released during the early to mid 1980s.

Decades worth of efforts at mainstreaming the format eventually paid off when country radio became widely popular among a large number of FM radio stations that signed on in the suburban United States in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The explosive rise in popularity during the 1980s of rap music has led to a large number of radio stations specializing in rap / hip-hop and R & B music ( with the exception of classic R & B such as Motown, which is as often as not the province of Oldies stations ).

Like in the US, the number and variety of motels in Canada grew dramatically after World War II, peaking in the 1960s and declining by the 1980s.

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

Other forms of Wicca have also attracted queer people, for instance, the theologian Jone Salomonsen noted that there was an unusually high number of LGBT, and particularly bisexual individuals within the Reclaiming tradition of San Francisco when she was doing her fieldwork there in the 1980s and 1990s.