The majority of the Central Committee members elected at the 17th Party Congress were killed during, or shortly after, the Great Purge when Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD Grigory Kaminsky, at a Central Committee meeting, spoke against the Great Purge, and shortly after was arrested and killed.

Average rainfall is high compared to the majority of the British Isles, due to its location to the western side of Great Britain and sufficient distance from Ireland for moisture to be accumulated by the prevailing south-westerly winds.

At this point however, Dulo Kaghan Kubrat, refused to accept Khazar rule and was cut-off to establish the short-lived state of Old Great Bolgary disintegrating upon his death with the majority migrating west where they carried out the first Hungarian conquest in 677.

Former " kulaks " and their families made up the majority of victims of the Great Purge of the late 1930s, with 669, 929 arrested and 376, 202 executed.

In expelling the Soviet Union, the League broke its own rule: only 7 of 15 members of the Council voted for expulsion ( Great Britain, France, Belgium, Bolivia, Egypt, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic ), short of the majority required by the Covenant.

Using vernacular language that would be understandable to the majority of China's populace, he put forward his socialist political views, calling for revolution against the government ; in one notable article, he proclaimed the need for a " Great Union of the Popular Masses ", but failed to put forward an expressly Marxist analysis of how that revolution should proceed.

According to the genesis chronicle of the majority Sinhala people, the Mahavamsa (" Great Chronicle "), written in 5th century CE, the Pulindas believed to refer to Veddas are descended from Prince Vijaya ( 6th-5th century BC ), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through Kuveni, a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused.

In the December 1918 general election, a large majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won by Sinn Féin, with 73 of 105 constituencies returning Sinn Féin members.

The great majority of these men were recent immigrants who had arrived at northeastern U. S. ports, part of the Irish diaspora then escaping the Great Irish Famine and extremely poor economic conditions in Ireland, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at the time.

* 1934: Just one of many notable storms in the 1930s, the storm of 9 – 11 May 1934 began in the far north-western Great Plains and proceeded east over the northern tier of states and parts of Canada and was notable for removing the vast majority of the soil deposited since the last Ice Age over some parts of its path.

Since the Great Depression, Swedish national politics has largely been dominated by the Social Democratic Workers ' Party, which has held a plurality ( and sometimes a majority ) in parliament since 1917.

In Great Britain, ( and the majority of Europe ) flat racing is split into two distinctive bands, conditions races and handicaps.

After several years of legislative paralysis in the Province of Canada caused by the need to maintain a double legislative majority ( a majority of both the Canada East and Canada West delegates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature ), Macdonald had led his Liberal-Conservative Party into the Great Coalition with George-Étienne Cartier ’ s Parti bleu and George Brown ’ s Clear Grits.

As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he championed a Keynesian strategy of public investment to maintain demand, winning a second term in 1959 with an increased majority on an electioneering budget.

Temple Meads is now owned by Network Rail and is operated under a franchise by First Great Western who provide the majority of trains to London, along with local services and inter-urban routes to destinations such as Cardiff, Southampton, Portsmouth and.

* Jason Statham ( Born 12 September 1967, age 44 ), Actor, lived in Great Yarmouth during the majority of his childhood and attended the local Grammar School.

Though the majority of their children attended Great Neck schools, they did not integrate into the existing Ashkenazi synagogues, instead starting their own Iranian synagogues, where they could follow Mizrahi traditions.

The majority of the town was overcome by a ( weather related ) flood in 1923, and then devastated again by the Great Depression.

The majority of early settlers were from Germany and Great Britain.

Taylor argued that the basic problem with an interwar Europe was a flawed Treaty of Versailles that was sufficiently onerous to ensure that the overwhelming majority of Germans would always hate it, but insufficiently onerous in that it failed to destroy Germany's potential to be a Great Power once more.

In 1987, Great American Insurance Company owner Carl Lindner, Jr. became the majority shareholder of Hanna-Barbera's parent company, Taft Broadcasting, renaming it Great American Communications.

Umbro was the majority owner ( 94 %) of United Soccer Leagues, the parent organization for North America's lower division men's soccer ( tiers two through four in the American Soccer Pyramid ), and the second tier women's league ( W-League ) and youth league ( Super Y-League ).

The majority of human settlements are built on the drier strips of limestone, whereas the more poorly-draining clays ( which comprise the greater bulk of the area ) are more sparsely populated, supporting mostly small farms, dotted across the vale.

The majority of Indiana University ( Bloomington Campus ) was constructed out of limestone.

Other areas, particularly the vast majority of Petit Chablis vineyards, are planted on slightly younger Portlandian soil-a limestone based soil of similar structure.

The majority of known cave systems are in the western side of the limestone syncline where

The underlying rock is limestone so the majority of the park is calcareous grassland, probably created about 1000 years ago by clearing of oak forest, hosting a range of wild flower species and associated animals such as butterflies.

The character of the village has changed much over the post-war period but the village has retained much of its historic centre-where the majority of buildings are constructed from local limestone.

Bounded to the east by the Dinaric Alps, which rise to an altitude of 2000 m, and to the northwest by mountain Svilaja, the majority of the catchment drains calcareous rocks of Cretaceous age, predominantly limestone.

A distinguishing feature of this complex is that all buildings in this complex are made of brick, unlike the majority of buildings at K-State which are fronted with limestone.

Turbinicarpus species are usually confined to specific habitats, generally hostile for the majority of plants, mostly in very drained rocky areas, composed of limestone, sandstone, schist ( neutral or alkaline ), or in very acidic and humiferous understorey, or in gypsum veins, sometimes so pure that they are almost white.

The majority of GeminiJets ' product boxes feature a protective plastic ( or foam ) casing, a liftable flap to view the product and information about the particular aircraft the boxing houses including technical specification and aircraft history.

Given that the vast majority of all emeralds are treated as described above, and the fact that two stones that appear visually similar may actually be quite far apart in treatment level and therefore in value, a consumer considering a purchase of an expensive emerald is well advised to insist upon a treatment report from a reputable gemological laboratory.

The majority of stones with man-made indents, which presumably were connected with magic designed to increase crop fertility, date from this period.

The majority of attacks during this time period by students on other students or teacher, usually involved stabbing with knives, or hitting with stones.

By the beginning of the Victorian period in 1837, the majority of Neolithic standing stones at Avebury had gone, having been either buried by pious locals in the 14th century or smashed up for building materials in the 17th and 18th.

If the majority of the stones used proved with time very resistant, it was not in the same way for the called green stone Golfalina.

Although there are isolated examples of thimbles made of precious metals — Elizabeth I is said to have given one of her ladies-in-waiting a thimble set with precious stones — the vast majority of metal thimbles were made of brass.

The vast majority of scholars, however, do not believe it is an either / or proposition and cite the documented usage of stones and pebbles by the Muhammad's Companions as evidence for their inherent lawfulness.

This includes a later medieval parish church-with the majority of its vast stones still very much in place ( having been buried in centuries of sand until the parish priest took matters into his own hands and, with the help of locals, dug up the area surrounding it ).

* Local conditions at the site in question that promote their formation, e. g. local bacteria action ( in kidney stones ) or slower fluid flow rates, a possible explanation of the majority of salivary duct calculus occurring in the submandibular salivary gland.