The number of countries thus favorably situated is small, but their peoples constitute over half of the population of the underdeveloped world.

In the course of the 19th century similar groups were founded in a number of countries, including the " Oblates of St Charles ", established in London by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.

Of reptiles the lizard and chameleon are common, and there are a number of venomous snakes, though these are not so numerous as in other tropical countries.

* On 29 October 2009, the Google homepage of a great number of countries displayed a logo ( called Google Doodle ) commemorating 50 years of Asterix.

* Amputation is used as a legal punishment in a number of countries, among them Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Islamic regions of Nigeria.

The United States is a notable non-Party to the Convention and has a number of such agreements for allowing the shipping of hazardous wastes to Basel Party countries.

By the 18th century an increasing number of new plants had arrived in Europe from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide and a larger number of plants became available for study.

A number of possible reasons have been proposed, but none have been proven, and none can explain the lack of efficacy in both low TB burden countries ( US ) and high TB burden countries ( India ).

Unlike a number of other countries, rail travel in the United Kingdom has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years with kilometres / miles travelled matching and surpassing the highs of the 1940s ( see usage figures below ).

Bt corn is now commercially available in a number of countries to control corn borer ( a lepidopteran insect ), which is otherwise controlled by spraying ( a more difficult process ).

He found that material was scattered over an area in diameter, and in addition to military and nautical equipment recovered a large number of gold and silver coins from countries across the Mediterranean, some from the seventeenth century.

The length and requirements for copyright duration are subject to change by legislation, and since the early 20th century there have been a number of adjustments made in various countries, which can make determining the duration of a given copyright somewhat difficult.

A number of other countries have nonresident ambassadors.

Prior to 1948, various standards for luminous intensity were in use in a number of countries.

A number of European countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, apply a strict liability towards cyclists, protecting them.

The required number of 50 instruments of ratification / accession / approval / acceptance by countries was reached in May 2003.

Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism ( Hebrew for " Traditional ").

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

Released in October 1987, it became a breakthrough hit for Eric B & Rakim outside the U. S., reaching # 15 in the UK and the top 20 in a number of European countries.

This is most common amongst Nordic countries but requires a large number of different registers to be combined including population, housing, employment and education.

In Europe, in connection with the 2010 census round, a large number of countries adopted alternative census methodologies, often based on the combination of data from registers, surveys and other sources.

The album reached number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, number six in the UK and made the top 20 in several European countries.

Hubbard claimed, in an interview with the New York Times in November 1950, that " he had already submitted proof of claims made in the book to a number of scientists and associations.

The Darwin Awards site does try to verify all submitted stories, but many similar sites, and the vast number of circulating " Darwin awards " emails, are largely fictional.

A number of recitals ( around six ), including a lecture-recital for which an accompanying doctoral dissertation is submitted, advanced coursework and a minimum B average are other typical requirements of a D. M. A program.

With his help, French former minister and Resistance fighter Pierre-Henri Teitgen submitted a report to the Assembly proposing a list of rights to be protected, selecting a number from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights just agreed to in New York, and defining how the enforcing judicial mechanism might operate.

In the election of Lothar II in 1125, a small number of eminent nobles chose the monarch and then submitted him to the remaining magnates for their approbation.

Each RFC is static ; if the document is changed, it is submitted again and assigned a new RFC number.

17 lists of candidates have been submitted from 22 political parties, out of which independently from 12 political parties, from four coalitions and from one group of voters, and the total number of nominated candidates is 595.

Lin believes that if the competition had not been " blind ", with designs submitted by number instead of name, she " never would have won ".

A number of finds from the American Southwest have yet to be formally submitted to the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, as many finders think it is unwise to publicly state the coordinates of their discoveries for fear of confiscation by the federal government, and fear competition with other hunters at published find sites.

Because planned actions can typically only be submitted at a fixed maximum frequency ( e. g., once every few days or every few weeks ), the number of discrete actions is limited compared to real-time games.

Each RFC is static ; if the document is changed, it is submitted again and assigned a new RFC number.

At the CIA, the number of manuscripts submitted for pre-publication vetting doubled between 1998 and 2005.

The costumes are managed by the non-profit association The Friends of Manneken-Pis, who review hundreds of designs submitted each year, and select a small number to be produced and used.

The number of " false positive " reports based on misidentifications is considerable ; in a nationwide study where people submitted spiders that they thought were brown recluses, of 581 from California only 1 was a brown recluse — submitted by a family that moved from Missouri and brought it with them ( compared to specimens submitted from Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, where between 75 % and 90 % were recluses ).

Within four months after the Congress submitted it to the states, the amendment was ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, the shortest time in which any proposed amendment has received the number of ratifications needed for adoption.

The number of false codes submitted to IGN dropped dramatically, as Luigi's inclusion was proved to be a myth.

Since 1974, Greek Cypriots submitted a number of proposals within the context of bicommunal discussions for the return of Varosha to UN administration, allowing the return of its lawful inhabitants, requesting also the opening of Famagusta harbour for use by both communities.

In June 2010, PLoS announced that it was moving to a new location, because the growth of PLoS ONE and the increase in the number of articles submitted to PLoS journals after a National Institutes of Health mandate was put into effect, made PLoS outgrow its previous location.

According to many academics, the Court of Chancery really began to expand its caseload during the 15th century ; Margaret Avery reports a massive increase in cases during the 1440s, while Nicholas Pronay suggests that the real expansion came during Yorkist rule ( 1461 – 85 ), when the number of cases submitted each year quadrupled.

In 1813 the first Vice-Chancellor was appointed to deal with the increasing number of cases submitted to the Court.

The CLI specification was submitted as to the ISO and ANSI standards committees in 1993 ; the standard has the book number ISBN 1-85912-081-4 and the internal document number is C451.