for still others, mostly of the nineteenth-century immigration, it was Roman Catholicism, and for a small minority it was Eastern Orthodoxy.

Most amateurs work at visible wavelengths, but a small minority experiment with wavelengths outside the visible spectrum.

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

The breadth of slave ownership also meant that the leisure of the rich ( the small minority who were actually free of the need to work ) rested less than it would have on the exploitation of their less well-off fellow citizens.

It was commonly thought that most individuals were homozygous for the " wild type " allele at most gene loci, and that any alternative ' mutant ' allele was found in homozygous form in a small minority of " affected " individuals, often as genetic diseases, and more frequently in heterozygous form in " carriers " for the mutant allele.

Spencer saw tariffs as a form of taxation that levied against the majority in service to “ the benefit of a small minority of manufacturers and artisans ”.

Only a small minority will recover without therapy, such as those suffering a mini-stroke.

A small minority held that something concrete had indeed happened on October 22, but this event had been misinterpreted.

The country's small white minority and other minorities participate freely in the political process.

Thus, small minority parties cannot easily enter the Bundestag and prevent the formation of stable majority governments as they could under the Weimar constitution.

In Central Kalimantan there is also a small Hindu minority.

While all of the 98 naturally occurring elements have been identified in mineral samples from the Earth's crust, only a small minority of elements are found as recognizable, relative pure minerals.

Although Arab culture is firmly established throughout, a small minority are Christian.

Cobden believed that military expenditures worsened the welfare of the state and benefited a small but concentrated elite minority, summing up British imperialism, which he believed was the result of the economic restrictions of mercantilist policies.

A small minority believe this is not permanent, and that those who go there will eventually either be saved or cease to exist.

By 1990, an estimated 50 % of islanders had some degree of proficiency in Corsican, and a small minority, perhaps 10 %, used Corsican as a first language.

However only a small minority actually had a voice ; Parliament was elected by only a few percent of the population, ( less than 3 % as late as 1780 ), and the power to call parliament was at the pleasure of the monarch ( usually when he or she needed funds ).

His harshness was felt by only a small, but highly vocal minority, who later exaggerated his despotism in favour of the well regarded Nervan-Antonian dynasty which followed.

* Vulgar Latin and Late Latin among the uneducated and educated populations respectively of the Roman empire and the states that followed it in the same range no later than 900 AD ; medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin among the educated populations of western, northern, central and part of eastern Europe until the rise of the national languages in that range, beginning with the first language academy in Italy in 1582 / 83 ; new Latin written only in scholarly and scientific contexts by a small minority of the educated population at scattered locations over all of Europe ; ecclesiastical Latin, in spoken and written contexts of liturgy and church administration only, over the range of the Roman Catholic Church.

Only a small minority of parishes with a priest do not celebrate the Eucharist at least once each Sunday.

Of those who attend the Memorial a small minority worldwide will partake of the eating of the unleavened bread and the drinking of the wine.

The immensely famous Letters of a Portuguese Nun ( Lettres portugaises ) ( 1669 ) generally attributed to Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues, though a small minority still regard Marianna Alcoforado as the author, is claimed to be intended to be part of a miscellany of Guilleragues prose and poetry.

While most environmentalists are mainstream and peaceful, a small minority are more radical in their approach.

* Modernist evangelicals are a small minority in the movement, have low levels of church attendance, and " have much more diversity in their beliefs ".

A small group of Bahá ' ís in Northern New Mexico believe that these descendants are eligible for appointment to the Guardianship and are waiting for such a direct descendant of Bahá ' u ' lláh to arise as the rightful Guardian.

Many economists, following Milton Friedman, believe that the Federal Reserve inappropriately refused to lend money to small banks during the bank runs of 1929.

If we believe in this mental component and call it God, then we can say that we are small pieces of God's mental apparatus " ( p. 297 ).

" It was so large that the bulkiest man could walk through the eye of each horse, yet because of the extreme height of the foundation persons passing along on the ground below believe that the horses themselves as well as Hadrian are very very small.

Herodian wrote " this stone is worshipped as though it were sent from heaven ; on it there are some small projecting pieces and markings that are pointed out, which the people would like to believe are a rough picture of the sun, because this is how they see them ".

Because of this sensitivity to infant mortality, simple life expectancy at age zero can be subject to gross misinterpretation, leading one to believe that a population with a low overall life expectancy will necessarily have a small proportion of older people.

Others believe they are too similar in design with other small cars, so they should be described as the same kind of cars.

Others, noting the lack of any explicit evidence of exclusion of paedobaptism, believe that they did, understanding biblical references to individuals " and household " being baptized (,, ) as well as " the promise to you and your children " () as including small children and infants.

While most Christians believe Jesus ' resurrection was in a material body ; which was seen by over 500 people, a very small minority believe it was spiritual.

This leads many to believe that there is at least one metastable solution that is quantitatively identical with the standard model, with a small cosmological constant, containing dark matter and a plausible mechanism for cosmic inflation.

* Others believe the tapas tradition began when king Alfonso X of Castile recovered from an illness by drinking wine with small dishes between meals.

His wife, in shock, tends to her husband as he is badly hurt, and he tells her he was wrong to believe in Father Christmas like some small child.

The book also contains a secondhand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by British troops ; although Graves had not witnessed any incidents himself and knew of no large-scale massacres, he had been told about a number of incidents in which prisoners had been killed individually or in small groups ; consequently he was prepared to believe that a proportion of Germans who surrendered never made it to prisoner-of-war camps.

The relatively small magnitude of the Starfish Prime EMP in Hawaii ( about 5600 volts / metre ) and the relatively small amount of damage done ( for example, only 1 to 3 percent of streetlights extinguished ) led some scientists to believe, in the early days of EMP research, that the problem might not be as significant as was later realized.

Paul Foot and some other campaigners continued to believe in Hanratty's innocence and argued that the DNA evidence could have been contaminated, noting that the small DNA samples from items of clothing, kept in a police laboratory for over 40 years " in conditions that do not satisfy modern evidential standards ", had had to be subjected to very new amplification techniques in order to yield any genetic profile.

However, this date is very approximate, as many scholars have contended that Sumerian was already dead or dying as early as around 2100 BC, by the beginning of the Ur III period, while others believe that Sumerian persisted as a spoken language in a small part of Southern Mesopotamia ( Nippur and its surroundings ) until as late as 1700 BC.

Some small models made from ivory, wood, or clay exist, and archaeologists believe these models were actually children ’ s toys.

When the brain is led to believe that the saccades it is generating are too large or too small ( by an experimental manipulation in which a saccade-target steps backwards or forwards contingent on the eye movement made to acquire it ), saccade amplitude gradually decreases ( or increases ), an adaptation ( also termed gain adaptation ) widely seen as a simple form of motor learning, possibly driven by an effort to correct visual error.

This stone is worshipped as though it were sent from heaven ; on it there are some small projecting pieces and markings that are pointed out, which the people would like to believe are a rough picture of the sun, because this is how they see them.

In Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the people in a small Massachusetts town believe horror hostess Elvira ( Cassandra Peterson ) to be a witch and attempt to burn her at the stake.

Aboriginal people understand that fire is necessary to ‘ clean up ’ the landscape and believe that many small fires are preferable to one large fire.