A training program in a depressed area may have few enrollees unless there is some apparent prospect for better employment opportunities afterwards, and the prospect may be poor if the training is aimed solely at jobs in the local community.

A few red wines, notably those of the Beaujolais, are better consumed at cellar temperature.

The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.

Within a few years of nationalisation, a number of progressive measures had been carried out which did much to improve conditions in the mines, including better pay, a five-day workweek, a national safety scheme ( with proper standards at all the collieries ), a ban on boys under the age of 16 going underground, the introduction of training for newcomers before going down to the coalface, and the making of pithead baths into a standard facility.

A few minor Christian sects advocate celibacy as a better way of life.

However, the PDP-6 proved to be a " hard sell " with customers, as it offered few advantages over similar machines from the better established vendors like IBM or Honeywell, in spite of its low cost around $ 300, 000.

The assumption behind this legislation is the idea that having economic activity decentralized among many different industry participants is better for the economy than having one or a few large players in an industry.

After the first few, Harry Cohn said " it was the beginning of Columbia making a better quality of pictures.

The first few years of the championship saw March establishing a superiority over Ralt and Lola — there was little to choose between the chassis, but more Marches were sold and ended up in better hands.

The White Army controlled the area to the north, which was predominantly agrarian with small or medium-sized farms and tenant farmers, and where crofters were few, or held a better social position than in the south.

Verdi's comments on Wagner and his music are few and hardly benevolent (" He invariably chooses, unnecessarily, the untrodden path, attempting to fly where a rational person would walk with better results "), but at least one of them is kind: upon learning of Wagner's death, Verdi lamented, " Sad, sad, sad!

Even of the works of the better known thinkers, few fragments survived.

These Australians of Irish background did not tend to regard Ireland as their " mother country "-primarily because few had a wish to return to a home they had left in search of a better life.

Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".

Based in Paris, the paper had been established and was run by many activists connected to the revolutionary socialist League of the Just, which would come to be better known as the Communist League within a few years.

Although communist networks in Phnom Penh and in other towns under Tou Samouth's jurisdiction fared better, only a few hundred communists remained active in the country by 1960.

However, the distinction between mass and weight becomes important for measurements with a precision better than a few percent ( because of slight differences in the strength of the Earth's gravitational field at different places ), and for places far from the surface of the Earth, such as in space or on other planets.

The conditions of the people in the past few years has been getting better and not worse.

Early sheep farming required few high-standard roads, but the strong increase in dairy farming in the late 19th century created a strong demand for better links on which the more perishable goods could be transported to market or towards ports for export.

A series of experiments that may have taken several years in the 1960s can now be done, with much better precision, in a few months.

There are a few minor exceptions to this, for example, with A-Q-10-9-5-4-2 it is slightly better to play Q-9 and A-10-5-4-2, but these situations are rare and do not affect a player's win rate much.

More important enhancements were the doubling of the instruction and data cache sizes and a few microarchitectural changes for better performance.

They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies ( such as those of late classical Greece and late Roman mythology ) rarely break from this rule, although closer examination of the earlier myths of those cultures reveal a very different distribution than the contemporary popular belief.

The first discrete transistor audio amplifiers barely supplied a few hundred milliwatts, but power and audio fidelity gradually increased as better transistors became available and amplifier architecture evolved.

In the 1980s, companies had few people who understood the growing personal computer phenomenon, and so most technical people were given free rein to purchase whatever software they thought they needed.

With few clear records matching the Shang oracle bones or the Zhou bronze vessel writings, the Xia era remains poorly understood.

This had been one of the few features of LCD performance that was easily understood and not subject to interpretation.

One of the very few understood words so far, the summarizing term, KU-RO, most likely meaning ' total ' or something similar to it, could be of either Indo-European * kwol-( o-grade form of * kwel -, cognate to English " whole "), or Semitic (* kull-' whole ') origin, or a language isolate, unrelated to either.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

What was odd or inconceivable yesterday is commonplace today ; what is avant garde today ( and understood only by the few ) is common knowledge tomorrow.

Herbert Spencer, Jowett, and Leslie Ellis understood, I feel sure ; and a few others, but nearly all the logicians and mathematicians ignored the statement that the book was meant to throw light on the nature of the human mind ; and treated the formula entirely as a wonderful new method of reducing to logical order masses of evidence about external fact.

Image of galaxy NGC 4945 showing the huge luminosity of the central few star clusters, suggesting there are 10 to 100 supergiant stars in each of these, packed into regions just a few parsecs across. Luminosity is generally understood as a measurement of brightness.

Elevated blood levels of glucose – regardless of cause – lead to increased glycation of proteins with changes, only a few of which are understood in any detail, in protein function throughout the body.

The chronological history of shergottites is not totally understood, and a few workers have suggested that some may actually have formed prior to the times given by their radiometric ages, a suggestion not accepted by most workers.

Excessive feelings of hubris have a tendency to create conflict and sometimes terminating close relationships, which has led it to be understood as one of the few emotions without any clear positive or adaptive functions ( Rhodwalt, et al.

With very few exceptions, their films have no meaningful spoken dialogue — most have no spoken content at all, while some, like The Comb ( From the Museums of Sleep ) ( 1990 ) include multilingual background gibberish that is not supposed to be coherently understood.

The Old Testament is replete with references to kings and commoners that go insane, and the Jewish prophets were thought to be psychologically abnormal because they acted in strange ways, departed markedly from the norm in appearance, and foretold of future events that few understood.

In the Book of Ezekiel, Gabriel is understood to be the angel that was sent to destroy Jerusalem for its wickedness and idolatry during the late Kingdom of Judah, separating the few righteous Jews that would not be destroyed and would be exiled from the majority of wicked ones that would perish there for their iniquities and failure to return.

A few years later spectral lines could be understood in quantum theory as differences between energy levels, energy being proportional to wavenumber, or frequency.

A few days before his death, in a final statement, he declared that nobody among either his associates or the general public had understood what had happened to him ( as the conduit of the teaching ), nor had they understood the teaching itself.

The Kisti dialect of Georgia is not easily understood by northern Chechens without a few days ' practice.

On the Great Plains very few single men attempted to operate a farm or ranch ; farmers clearly understood the need for a hard-working wife, and numerous children, to handle the many chores, including child-rearing, feeding and clothing the family, managing the housework, and feeding the hired hands.

However the Tet Offensive proved a public relations disaster for Johnson, as the public increasingly realized the United States was deeply involved in a war that few people understood.

The original article had summed up the situation in terms of the long-term rivalry between Whitehaven and nearby Workington: “ Legend has it that one town ’ s miners had jam on their sandwiches and the other did not, but no one agrees on which town it was or whether they did it because they were snobs or peasants .” A reader from Maryport, a few miles further up the Cumbria coast ( which, as occasionally mentioned in discussions on the topic, used to have a jam factory ) reported that he had understood the term originally referred to people from Whitehaven, and this was echoed in the comments on the Whitehaven News article, suggesting that a former distinction between the Whitehaven " jam eaters " and Workington " high siders " had gradually been lost in the trading of insults across the Rugby pitch.

It remains mostly untranslated because of the lack of knowledge about the Etruscan language, though the few words which can be understood indicate that the text is most likely a ritual calendar.

Kiedis later described the experience in his autobiography Scar Tissue: " Within a few minutes of hanging out with Hillel, I sensed that he was absolutely different from most of the people I'd spent time with ... He understood a lot about music, he was a great visual artist, and he had a sense of self and a calm about him that were just riveting.

" Both segments, peri-and-plous, were independently productive: the ancient Greek speaker understood the word in its literal sense ; however, it developed a few specialized meanings, one of which became a standard term in the ancient navigation of Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.