I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

In the eighteenth century there emerges for the first time the notion of a private tragedy ( or nearly for the first time, there having been a small number of Elizabethan domestic tragedies such as the famous Arden Of Feversham ).

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

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

Each male willow catkin is composed of a large number of small flowers.

The bronchial artery, except for a small number of short branches in the hilum, contributes none of the pleural blood supply.

There remained only the delicate task of maneuvering the laws through the labyrinth of Palace politics and making a small number of policy decisions.

Mr. Alexander H. Wheelan's Study Helps In Point And Figure Technique tells the readers: `` We assure you that the total number of people using this method of market analysis is a very small portion of the sum total of those operating in the securities and commodities markets ''.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

they are small in number and their contribution is not immediately decisive in everyday life.

This relatively high value is probably due to the small fiber diameters increasing the number of internal reflections.

Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us.

Lungless salamanders in the family Plethodontidae are terrestrial and lay a small number of unpigmented eggs in a cluster among damp leaf litter.

In pure water the majority of molecules exist as H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, but a small number of molecules are constantly dissociating and re-associating.

The number of letters in an alphabet can be quite small.

The number of neutrons, N, is known as the neutron number of the atom ; thus, A = Z + N. Since protons and neutrons have approximately the same mass ( and the mass of the electrons is negligible for many purposes ), and the mass defect is usually very small compared to the mass, the atomic mass of an atom is roughly equal to A.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

A small number of FAA personnel are stationed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Kinshasa ) and the Republic of the Congo ( Brazzaville ).

In particular, this applies where large numbers of amateur astronomers with small telescopes are more effective than the relatively small number of large telescopes that are available to professional astronomers.

The order is a cosmopolite ( plants found throughout most of the world including desert and frigid zones ), and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees ( such as the giant Lobelia and the giant Senecio ) and shrubs are also present.

There are the legendary kennels where the dogs of the same name are bred, as well as the small local museum to view the Roman artifacts found here.

Most babes survived the techniques of pituitary manipulation that kept their bodies small, eliminating the necessity of transfers from smaller to larger shells.

A rather small number of direct transliterations have survived as common words, including 沙发 ／ 沙發 shāfā " sofa ", 马达 ／ 馬達 mǎdá " motor ", 幽默 yōumò " humor ", 逻辑 ／ 邏輯 luójí " logic ", 时髦 ／ 時髦 shímáo " smart, fashionable ", and 歇斯底里 xiēsīdǐlǐ " hysterics ".

Most species of brachiopods, a small phylum of marine invertebrates, survived the K – Pg extinction event and diversified during the early Paleocene.

A small fraction of the Cretaceous bird species survived the impact, giving rise to today's birds.

Other movements, such as the Waldensians and the pantheistic Brethren of the Free Spirit, which suffered persecution in the same area, survived in remote areas and in small numbers into the 14th and 15th centuries.

An old custom in the Highlands, which has survived to a small extent and seen some degree of revival, is to celebrate Hogmanay with the saining ( Scots for ' protecting, blessing ') of the household and livestock.

The blow, possibly from a small axe, would have caused unconsciousness but Lindow Man could have survived for several hours afterwards.

A small population survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, up until 3750 BC, and the small mammoths of Wrangel Island survived until 1650 BC.

Although small disorganised cells of Central Leadership of Home Resistance ( Ústřední vedení odboje domácího, ÚVOD ) survived, only the communist resistance was able to function in a coordinated manner ( although it also suffered arrests ).

The sound-powered dynamic kind survived in small numbers through the 20th century in military and maritime applications, where its ability to create its own electrical power was crucial.

However, as in the case of his friend Erasmus of Rotterdam, only a small portion of his correspondence ( about 280 letters ), survived.

Those that survived, like the small village of Drais near Mainz, would take almost a hundred years to recover.

A small number of plays from the era survived not in printed texts but in manuscript form.

Old Bloomsbury ’ s development was inevitably impacted on, along with just about everything else in modernist culture, by the First World War: indeed, " the small world of Bloomsbury was later said by some on its outskirts to have been irretrivably shattered ", though in fact its friendships " survived the upheavals and dislocations of war, in many ways were even strengthened by them ".

Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973 ; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms ' destruction order.

The new authorities dismantled Bulgarian institutions and merged the separate Bulgarian Church into the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople ( although a small, autocephalous Bulgarian archbishopric of Ohrid survived until January 1767 ).

A small section of the Altstadt survived the bombing and remains quite distinctive.

The international Esperanto movement survived World War II with its IEL headquarters in Heronsgate, a small place in the vicinity of London.

The first few droves were of small groups of horses — the first started out with 42 horses of which only nine survived the journey.

After that it survived as a small village until Russians took over in the 19th century.

Only a small section of the inscription survived to be recorded by Ussishkin.