It might not be unprofitable, now and then, to send us mortals — the dissatisfied ones, at least, and that's a large proportion — into some tunnel of several days ' journey.

* Base bleed uses a small pyrotechnic charge at the base of the projectile to introduce sufficient combustion products into the low-pressure region behind the base of the projectile responsible for a large proportion of the drag.

A large proportion of amputees ( 50 – 80 %) experience the phenomenon of phantom limbs ; they feel body parts that are no longer there.

The fauna is largely constituted of golden eagles, marmots, ibex and vultures, and the flora includes a large proportion of larches, génépis and white asphodels.

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

The age structure of the population of Comoros is similar to that of many developing countries, in that the republic has a very large proportion of young people.

In summer, a large proportion of the rainfall is caused by sun heating the ground leading to convection and to showers and thunderstorms.

The proportion of cell volume that is cytosol varies: for example while this compartment forms the bulk of cell structure in bacteria, in plant cells the main compartment is the large central vacuole.

The post-war German Army ( Reichsheer ) was permitted a large proportion of cavalry ( 18 regiments or 16. 4 % of total manpower ) under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles.

In Europeans a large proportion of sensitivity is associated with HLA-B58.

The comparatively large population growth of western and central Canada during the immigration boom of the 20th century has reduced the Maritimes ' proportion of the national population to less than 10 %, resulting in an over-representation in Parliament, with some federal ridings having fewer than 35, 000 people, compared to central and western Canada where ridings typically contain 100, 000-120, 000 people.

The most commonly cited duopoly is that between Visa and Mastercard, who between them control a large proportion of the electronic payment processing market.

Examples where two companies control a large proportion of a market are:

Athenian democracy was not only direct in the sense that decisions were made by the assembled people, but also directest in the sense that the people through the assembly, boule and courts of law controlled the entire political process and a large proportion of citizens were involved constantly in the public business.

The dipole term is the dominant one at large distances: Its field falls off in proportion to 1 / r < sup > 3 </ sup >, as compared to 1 / r < sup > 4 </ sup > for the next ( quadrupole ) term and higher powers of 1 / r for higher terms, or 1 / r < sup > 2 </ sup > for the monopole term.

The Dodo differed from other pigeons mainly in the small size of the wings and the large size of the beak in proportion to the rest of the cranium.

Whatever the proportion of stars with planets, the total number of exoplanets must be very large.

A large proportion of these original settlers came from Old Saxony.

Of particular importance here were the USA states of Illinois and New York, under whose laws a large proportion of international financial contracts are made.

A large proportion of the Esperanto movement continue to hold such goals, and most are at least sympathetic to them.

Unlike food processors, food retailing is a two-tier market in which a small number of very large companies control a large proportion of supermarkets.

Most passenger train services originate or terminate at Helsinki Central railway station, and a large proportion of the passenger rail network radiates out of Helsinki.

However this was not completely the case as a large proportion of the assembly were conservative-minded gentry like Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper.

Having extorted a large sum of money from the citizens of Nuremberg, he quarrelled with his supporter, the French King, and offered his services to the Emperor.

Eventually Agrippina was proud of her large family and this was a part of the reason she was popular with Roman citizens.

The fortunes of individuals, whether possessed by acquisition or by descent or in virtue of a participation in the goods of some community, were no part of the creditor's security, expressed or implied ... he public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate ; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.

French citizens also migrated in large numbers, mainly to the colonies in the north African Maghreb region: 1. 3 million settled in Algeria ; 200, 000 in Morocco ; 100, 000 in Tunisia ; while only 20, 000 migrated to French Indochina.

Nonetheless, the cost benefit analysis for society at large between having laws that protect citizens from toxic or dangerous living and work conditions such as those that existed in the early industrial 1800's or not clearly comes down on the side of regulation.

American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.

As a result 120, 000 of the 176, 000 Indians kept their old British passports rather than become citizens of an independent Kenya ; large numbers left Kenya, most of them headed to Britain.

Soviet authorities regarded service for the pre-war Polish state as a " crime against revolution " and " counter-revolutionary activity ", and subsequently started arresting large numbers of Polish citizens.

Although ten years of exile would have been difficult for an Athenian to face, it was relatively mild in comparison to the kind of sentences inflicted by courts ; when dealing with politicians held to be acting against the interests of the people, Athenian juries could inflict very severe penalties such as death, unpayably large fines, confiscation of property, permanent exile and loss of citizens ' rights through atimia.

There were hundreds of thousands of abuses, deaths and incidents of torture against a large range of people, from political opponents to ordinary citizens.

Even today there are still large concentrations of San Marino citizens residing in foreign countries, above all, in the United States, in France and in Argentina.

Social security is more applicable in the conditions, where large numbers of citizens depend on the formal economy for their livelihood.

The sometimes efficient and often large government of the Empire meant that educated citizens were a must.

It eventually included citizens of 23 nations with majority Muslim populations, as well as Eritrea, which has a large Muslim population, and North Korea.

Many large scale WPA projects were constructed to reemploy citizens in the 1930s.

This is mainly because quite a large number of citizens have been moving to nearby communities, adjacent to the formal administrative area of Toruń, but still outside it.

The process of privatization is not popular among workers of large socially owned companies, and many citizens appear to believe the tendering process is overly centralized and controlled from Belgrade.

* April 4 – The citizens of Nuremberg see what appears to be an aerial battle followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object and a large crash ( with smoke ) outside the city.

Azerbaijan's telephone system is a combination of old Soviet era technology used by Azerbaijani citizens and small-to medium-size commercial establishments, and modern cellular telephones used by an increasing middle class, large commercial ventures, international companies, and most government officials ; the average citizen waits on a 200, 000-person list for telephone service ; Internet and e-mail service are available in all major cities and some remote towns.

In 1962, Provence absorbed a large number of French citizens who left Algeria after its independence.

When Belgium was invaded, the citizens of Lille, still marked by the events of the First World War, began to flee the city in large numbers.

" Soon after, large numbers of citizens joined protests demanding that Naguib be reinstated.

Representative democracy came into particular general favour in post-industrial revolution nation states where large numbers of subjects or ( latterly ) citizens evinced interest in politics, but where technology and population figures remained unsuited to direct democracy.