As attendance slid and the average MLB salary continued to rise, rather than pay higher salaries or lose their players to free agency, the Royals traded their remaining stars such as Kevin Appier, Johnny Damon and Jermaine Dye.

Heightened interest results in higher attendance rates, increased ticket sales, higher ratings on television broadcasts ( which result in greater ad revenue ), higher pay-per-view buyrates, and sales of branded merchandise and recorded video footage.

Given current trends in the UMC — with overseas churches growing, especially in Africa, and U. S. churches collectively losing about 1, 000 members a week — it has been estimated that Africans will make up at least 30 % of the delegates at the 2012 General Conference, and it is also possible that 40 % of the delegates will be from outside the U. S. One Congolese bishop has estimated that typical Sunday attendance of the UMC is higher in his country than in the entire United States.

A study by the Barna Group, that conducts polls of interest to Christians, reports that a higher divorce rate was associated with infrequent church attendance.

An attendance allowance was introduced for those needing care at home, together with an invalidity benefit for the long-term sick, while a higher child allowance was made available where invalidity allowance was paid.

Brittany has historically been a stronghold of the Roman Catholic Church, and its rates of church attendance have tended to be considerably higher than the national average.

Results conflict as to whether tourist attendance that season was higher or lower than normal.

In addition to student academic performance, average daily attendance at Langdon Area Schools is slightly higher than the state average ( 97. 2 % versus 96. 7 %), a general pattern which has held true since at least 2005.

In 1983, Sounds President Larry Schmittou noticed a 5 % drop in season ticket sales, a higher ratio of no-shows from season ticket holders, and a slight decline in overall attendance.

Frequently, the first two years of higher education, usually in the form of an HND can be taken in an FE college, followed by attendance at university.

The Bible Belt is an informal term for a region in the south-eastern and south-central United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is generally higher than the nation's average.

In Canada, the term is also sometimes used to describe several disparate regions which have a higher than average level of church attendance.

In England, the south-west of London ( especially the county of Surrey ) and the south coast area ( between Eastbourne and Southampton ) form a Bible belt with a higher than average concentration of evangelical Christians ; also the counties of Somerset, Norfolk and Lincolnshire hold high in rates of church attendance.

On 5 February 1533, George was formally called to Parliament and his attendance rate was higher than any other Lord despite his other onerous duties, clearly indicating his commitment.

A study of the early experience of new NA members in Victoria Australia in 1995 interviewed 91 members initially and 62 ( 68 %) after 12 months and found that higher self-help participation as measured by service role involvement, step work and stable meeting attendance, in the 12 months prior to follow-up was associated with a four-fold reduction in levels of hazardous drug and alcohol use, less illicit income and sickness benefits and higher emotional support at reinterview.

Both of those franchises would see dramatically higher attendance numbers in their second season based on their on-field success in their first year.

The All-Star Game became a success, drawing an attendance of 10, 094, much higher than that season's average attendance of 3, 500.

Although higher profile teams such as Clemson and South Carolina were also bowl eligible, and could have drawn larger attendance numbers, both schools endured a self-imposed bowl ban that year because of a brawl that occurred between the two teams earlier in the season.

This is the record for the largest official attendance at a football match in Britain, though The 1923 FA Cup Final is thought to be higher.

Coventry's record attendance was also set in this year – officially recorded as 51, 455, ( although many people who were at that game suggest the attendance was a lot higher, possibly much over 60, 000 ) against Wolverhampton Wanderers, the team that finished a close second to Coventry at the top of the table.

In medicine the frequencies are much higher, transducers and the sonar beams themselves are much smaller, and different scanning techniques may be used, but the principles involved are the same as in sonar.

`` Increased boundary maintenance may be achieved, for example, by assigning a higher primacy or evaluation to activities characteristic of the external pattern.

This exception may be connected with Hoijer's use of a much higher percentage of verbs: 22% of his total list as against 3.5% in mine.

These minimum costs may come to $1 per month, more or less, for residential and small commercial customers, although they are substantially higher for large industrial users, who require more costly connections and metering devices.

`` Costs may seem high, but they used to be even higher '', says Dr. Brodie.

Though this may or may not be good biology, it does aptly illustrate the strength and the weakness of American Catholic higher education.

The arithmetic mean may be misinterpreted as the median to imply that most values are higher or lower than is actually the case.

For example, a criminal defendant may be convicted in state court, and lose on " direct appeal " to higher state appellate courts, and if unsuccessful, mount a " collateral " action such as filing for a writ of habeas corpus in the federal courts.

In some cases, an appellant may successfully argue that the law under which the lower decision was rendered was unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, or may convince the higher court to order a new trial on the basis that evidence earlier sought was concealed or only recently discovered.

This may, therefore, explain decreased coordination at higher movement velocities and accelerations.

Weight for weight, screw anchors have a higher holding than other permanent designs, and so can be cheap and relatively easily installed, although may not be ideal in extremely soft mud.

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Apart from the lowlands and the Atlas mountain range, the continent may be divided into two regions of higher and lower plateaus, the dividing line ( somewhat concave to the north-west ) running from the middle of the Red Sea to about 6 deg.

Red wine may have a higher alcohol content ( on average 12. 5 %, sometimes up to 16 %).

When a core electron is removed, leaving a vacancy, an electron from a higher energy level may fall into the vacancy, resulting in a release of energy.

General support units may be grouped into artillery formations for example, brigades even divisions, or multi-battalion regiments, and usually under command of division, corps or higher HQs.

The mean and maximal doses used for olanzapine were considerably higher than standard practice, and this has been postulated as a biasing factor that may explain olanzapine's superior efficacy over the other atypical antipsychotics studied, where doses were more in line with clinically relevant practices.

Traders may, for example, find that the price of wheat is lower in agricultural regions than in cities, purchase the good, and transport it to another region to sell at a higher price.

Keys plated with other metals are not affected by the settlement, and may continue to use brass alloys with higher percentage of lead content.

However the carcass value of double-muscled animals may be enhanced due to increased dressing yield, lean carcass content, and upgrading of some cuts leading to a higher proportion of higher valued cuts.

Bromine has no known essential role in human or mammalian health, but inorganic bromine and organobromine compounds do occur naturally, and some may be of use to higher organisms in dealing with parasites.

A die may not be used to bear off checkers from a lower-numbered point unless there are no checkers on any higher points.