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.

Arrangements of popular music for small a cappella ensembles typically include one voice singing the lead melody, one singing a rhythmic bass line, and the remaining voices contributing chordal or polyphonic accompaniment.

Players also may use a small cart or gig bag and end pin-attached wheels to move the bass.

Despite this, there is a substantial number of chamber works that incorporate the double bass in both small and large ensembles.

There is a small body of works written for piano quintet with the instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

Students in jazz diploma or Bachelor of Music programs take individual bass lessons, get experience in small jazz combos with coaching from an experienced player, and play in jazz big bands.

Although these kits may be small with respect to the number of drums used, the drums themselves are most often normal sizes, or even larger in the case of the bass drum.

In chamber music, György Ligeti wrote a small number of solo works for the instrument ( including Continuum ), and Henri Dutilleux's Les Citations ( 1991 ) is scored for harpsichord, oboe, double bass and percussions.

Initial versions of the hi-hat were called clangers, which were small cymbals mounted onto a bass drum rim and struck with an arm on the bass drum pedal.

* Spektakel ( 1970 ) for improvisational ensemble ( saxophone bass clarinet, viola, bass guitar, electronic organ piano, percussion other instruments ), small orchestra ( 12 winds, 4 horns, 6 percussion )

* La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) ( text by Dino Campana ) for female jazz voice, violin, small orchestra ( 7 winds, 7 brass, electric guitar, cimbalom, 2 pianos, synthesizer, 2 percussion, 3 violins, bass guitar )

* Racconto dall ' inferno ( 2004 ) ( text by Dante Alighieri ) for female jazz voice, small orchestra ( 8 winds, 6 brass, guitar, cimbalom, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, minimum 8 strings, bass guitar ).

Neodymium magnets appear in products such as microphones, professional loudspeakers, in-ear headphones, guitar and bass guitar pick-ups and computer hard disks where low mass, small volume, or strong magnetic fields are required.

Broken consorts combined a mixture of different instruments — a small band, essentially — usually comprising a gathering of social amateurs and typically including such instruments as a bass viol, a lute or orpharion ( a wire-strung lute, metal-fretted, flat-backed, and festoon-shaped ), a cittern, a treble viol ( or violin, as time progressed ), sometimes an early keyboard instrument ( virginal, spinet, or harpsichord ), and whatever other instruments or players ( or singers ) might be available at the moment.

It is unlikely that a small woofer in an inexpensively-built compact plastic cabinet will have better bass performance than well-designed conventional ( and typically larger ) speakers in a plywood or MDF cabinet.

Many multimedia " subwoofers " might better be termed " bass drivers " as they are too small to produce deep bass.

The juvenile largemouth bass consumes mostly small bait fish, scuds, small shrimp, and insects.

The standard rhythm section is piano, bass, and drums, augmented by guitar at times in small combos and regularly in large ones.

In the live performance of " Hang On to A Dream " with the Nice, recorded for the post-breakup album Elegy, he performed a cadenza of sorts hitting the piano strings with a small hammer, followed by a lengthy wind-down, returning to the song in which he alternated keyboard arpeggios with blows directly on the bass strings.

Their small size ( typically 165 to 200 mm ) requires considerable cone excursion to reproduce bass effectively, but the short voice coils required for reasonable high frequency performance can only move over a limited range.

On the Smothers Brothers show that night, a small amount of explosive was put into the small cannon that Keith Moon kept in his bass drum.