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The student David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus is credited with discovering and cataloguing the majority of the Kullervo story.
* The majority of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-part story " Past Tense " takes place between August 30 and September 3, 2024.
For example, conflict between parties make for an interesting story, which is why legal dramas emphasize the trial and ignore the fact that the vast majority of civil and criminal cases in the United States are settled out of court.
One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.
Thus, according to Paul L. Maier, the majority of Herod biographers and theologians hold that the Massacre of the Innocents is " legend and not historical ": Geza Vermes and E. P. Sanders, for example, regard the story as part of a creative hagiography.
Finally, the depiction of the tragic story of Beppo shows a certain sympathy for the character of the poor Italian bootblack but also includes a callous disregard for depicting Italian immigrants in a stereotypical manner, an attitude that no doubt reflected the opinions of the majority of Americans at the time.
The majority of the homes are wooden I-cottages ; single story, or story-and-a-half, wood frame dwelings with a symmetrical facede.
In the story, Precrime Police Commissioner John A. Anderton believes that the prediction that he will commit a murder has been generated as a majority report.
The stories are mostly unconnected and very few of them actually told events with later effects in the plot, the majority of the stories concluding without explaing how the things settled, as in the next story all is back to normal.
It remains unclear how much of Raspe's story material derives from the Baron himself, but it is known that the majority of the stories are based on folktales that have been in circulation for many centuries before Münchhausen's birth.
The majority of his background story revolves around the guilt he has felt towards people he's tortured in the past.
One Hoch story, the majority of which feature impossible crimes, appeared in EQMM every month since May 1973 and even beyond his death in January 2008.
All three insights are now widely accepted, and the majority of modern biblical scholars date the Joseph story in its current form to the 5th century BCE Persian era at the earliest.
Vann's rags to riches story illustrated the benefits in a " capitalist society in which a penniless orphan, one of a despised minority can create The Pittsburgh Courier and publicly, vigorously, safely, attack a majority opinion " while Ford's showed how a poor mechanic can create " hundreds of jobs ... putting even beggars into cars.
The folk story notwithstanding, the vast majority of Hasidim now use the original Hungarian name " Satmar ".
The majority of Magic's story is set on the plane of Dominaria, and can be broken down into several distinct time periods each detailed in certain sets:
Initially Paterson drew the vast majority of strips, with the occasional story drawn by Keith Reynolds, but by 2003 other artists such as Leslie Reavey began to ghost the strip due to Tom Paterson's workload.
The follow-up story was about a ricin chemical attack on the U. S. Senate majority leader.
The majority of the story takes place in the parallel world of Fantastica ( Phantásien in the original German version ; referred to as Fantasia in the films ), a world being destroyed by the Nothing, which represents and constitutes people's lack of imagination in the real world.
Although the reason for Lieserl's task is an integral part of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence, the majority of the story is devoted to a study of the character, Lieserl, and the pain she suffers as a result of her accelerated existence.
Because the novel is set up as a frame story, the majority of Lullaby is written as a retelling by Streator himself.
The majority of novels of that era were whodunnits, and several authors excelled, after successfully leading their readers on the wrong track, in convincingly revealing to them the least likely suspect as the real villain of the story.
The majority of the story is told from Gris ' point of view, with an emphasis on the comical situations Gris ends up in as he tries to stop Heller.
The film features the voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, and Monica Viegas ; there is little dialogue, the majority of the film story being told through song and pantomime.
* The majority consensus of modern writers, who either question the story, or reject it as outright falsehood.

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It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.
Borrowing in anticipation of current taxes and other revenues is a routine procedure of the majority of municipalities at all times.
The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.
Anyone still doubting that this is the only way markets can be is invited to try to imagine a market wherein the majority consistently wins what the minority loses.
If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.
An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.
For all concerned with social-welfare legislation, the significance of this radical and revolutionary change in the thought and habits of the vast majority of the American people is clear, profound and far-reaching.
He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.
Swift also recognizes the implications of such a fact in making mercantilist philosophy a paradox: the wealth of a country is based on the poverty of the majority of its citizens.
Binoculars, for instance, although generally of lower power than the majority of telescopes, also tend to provide a wider field of view, which is preferable for looking at some objects in the night sky.
Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.
Debierne, who is now considered by the vast majority of historians as the discoverer, lost interest in the element and left the topic.
The president is elected for a five year term by the people ( absolute majority with 2nd round if necessary ).
The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.
The majority Arminian view accepts classical theism – the belief that God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of His divine nature.
The majority Arminian view is that election is individual and based on God's foreknowledge of faith, but a second perspective deserves mention.
The extreme of Calvinism is hyper-Calvinism, which insists that signs of election must be sought before evangelization of the unregenerate takes place and that the eternally damned have no obligation to repent and believe, and on the extreme of Arminianism is Pelagianism, which rejects the doctrine of original sin on grounds of moral accountability ; but the overwhelming majority of Protestant, evangelical pastors and theologians hold to one of these two systems or somewhere in between.

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