The large majority of the interviewees placed core families in the upper positions.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

All the families combined contain over 800 species in about 70 genera ; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae.

However the great majority of families were headed by farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and laborers.

The Florentine merchant families of the Antinori and Frescobaldi own the majority of the vineyards in Rufina.

A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families.

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

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.

The majority of the satraps were of Persian origin and were members of the royal house or the six great noble families.

The vast majority of these families live in salt water ; only the Abyssocottids, Comephorids, and a few species of Cottids live in fresh water.

The majority of white Bolivians are of Spanish descent, including Basque origin, but there are large German ( including Mennonite ) and small Croats, Asian ( notably Japanese Okinawans relocated there after expropriation of farmland by the U. S. military after World War II ), Middle Eastern, and other minorities ( Afro Bolivian ), many of whose members descend from families that have lived in Bolivia for several generations.

Another reason was that the traditional families who owned the majority of the fleet failed to foresee the benefits in participating in the steam ship revolution that significantly cut shipping operational costs through reduced crew and independence of the winds, putting them at a disadvantage vis-á-vis the new shipping companies of Piraeus, Patras and Syros.

Boarding school pupils ( a. k. a. " boarders ") normally return home during the school holidays and, often, weekends, but in some cultures may spend the majority of their childhood and adolescent life away from their families.

However, the majority are still rented out to families by the London Borough of Lewisham.

The majority of virus families remain unplaced.

Nevertheless, the great majority of children from divorced families do well, and the differences in well-being between children from divorced families and those from intact families tend to be moderate to small.

Striking miners and their families were gathered on Christmas Eve for a party in Italian Hall, when the cry of " fire " precipitated a stampede that crushed or suffocated seventy-three victims, the majority of them children.

The school system serves about 2, 000 students ; the majority of families living in the city of Tallassee attend Tallassee City Schools.

They survived by begging for food, while the vast majority seem to have been disheartened by the hardship of this journey and returned to their families.

The majority of homes in Brentwood were built during and after World War II ; young people coming to Washington, D. C., to support the war effort found a quiet place to raise their families.

North Amherst is also home to a large majority of Amherst middle income families as the main street ( East Pleasant Street ) has many housing developments built off of it.

Wishing to replace the foreign-sounding Shawshin with a name more familiar, the settlers chose the name Billerica, likely due to the fact that the majority of the families living in the settlement were originally from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.

The majority of families in St. Elizabeth are of Germanic descent.

A recent survey disclosed there are about 4,000 commercially and municipally operated marinas and boatyards in the United States, the majority of which are equipped to handle outboard boats.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

`` The majority of children in the United States could benefit by some form of orthodontic treatment '', says Dr. Allan G. Brodie, professor and head of the department of orthodontics at the University of Illinois and a nationally recognized authority in his field.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

The majority of Southeast Alaska's area is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States ' largest national forest.

Associate Justices, like the Chief Justice, are nominated by the President of the United States and are confirmed by the United States Senate by majority vote.

The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the pro-reform United Democratic Forces, giving to the party the majority of 163 seats in the parliament.

When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.

The vast majority of these products are exported, mainly to the United States.

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

Sightings now commonly occur in a majority of the United States and Canada.

* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In the United States, from the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s mind control was widely accepted, and the vast majority of newspaper and magazine accounts of deprogrammings assumed that recruits ' relatives were well justified to seek conservatorships and to hire deprogrammers.

However, the vast majority of Federal government publications covering these topics are published by the Office of Justice Programs agencies of the United States Department of Justice, and disseminated through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

* 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.

Similar positions exist in the United States House of Representatives, except that role of majority leader normally goes to the second-highest member of the leadership of the majority party, because it traditionally elects its party leader to the position ofp speaker.

Throughout the history of the United Nations General Assembly, it is claimed by some there has always been an " automatic majority " against Israel.

Thirty three countries, including the United States, China, and Australia, have laws that explicitly regulate franchising, with the majority of all other countries having laws which have a direct or indirect impact on franchising.