For this, the Peace Corps should be administered by a small, new, alive agency operating as one component in our whole overseas operation.

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.

In all the fleet would have five squadrons of eight battleships, twelve large cruisers and thirty small, plus additional cruisers for overseas duties.

Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra, British overseas territory of Gibraltar and a small amount of southern France.

The air force and navy also suffer major equipment and funding shortfalls — to the point of sometimes almost being grounded — and are both too small and poorly equipped to take part in operations overseas.

After the invasions of the 890s, Wessex and English Mercia continued to be attacked by the Danish settlers in England, and by small Danish raiding forces from overseas, but these incursions were usually defeated, while there were no further major invasions from the continent.

When small cargoes such as pencils are shipped overseas, they are generally not carried one at a time.

Other garnishes, more common in Japan than overseas, include red water pepper sprouts and a small chrysanthemum.

He sometimes organized his own troupe and toured bases both in the U. S. and overseas, often small installations that the USO did not serve, like one tour of Greenland, Baffinland, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Overfishing, habitat loss from heavy siltation, and water pollution have eliminated most commercial fishing except for a small mussel harvest to provide shells to seed pearl oysters overseas.

In spite of its small size and population in comparison to the great land powers of Europe, it was able to acquire an overseas empire of vast proportions during Manuel's reign.

Despite its small physical size, the airport is capable of handling Boeing 747s and Antonov 124s, which forms a vital freight link between local manufacturers and overseas markets.

The only remnant of the former colonial territory of New France that remains under French control to this day is the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon ( French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ), consisting of a group of small islands 25 kilometres ( 13 nmi ; 15 mi ) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

However, it was too oriented to small posts in the West and not as well-prepared for an overseas conflict.

There is also a relatively small, but well organized anarchist movement, though its status in Greece has been somewhat exaggerated by media overseas.

Chiefs, Scouts, and Junior Scouts were all used in small numbers for various purposes by the United States Army in World War II, and extensively by overseas Commonwealth military forces under the Lend / Lease Program.

While the eligible U. S. small business must own at least 25 percent of the overseas project, OPIC may be able to finance up to 65 percent of the total project cost.

Finland, France ( except for some small overseas possessions ), Italy, Netherlands, Norway ( though a handful of unincorporated cities exist within ordinary municipalities ), Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland ( with exceptions ), Czech Republic and Slovakia ( with the exception of the military areas, which are administered directly by state government ) are divided into communes.

For a small liberal arts college, Lewis & Clark's overseas offerings are impressive in both breadth and scope ; there are, for example seven discrete programs in Spanish-speaking countries.

Hundreds of thousands of other Portuguese citizens — workers, small business people, and farmers ( often with deep roots in the former overseas territories )— also returned to Portugal as retornados.

He also developed an organization modeled on the Peace Corps that helped small overseas businesses.

Sarah Lawrence makes all practical efforts to preserve its most characteristic elements, such as one-on-one interaction with professors, small classes, and an emphasis on qualitative comprehension, in its programs overseas.

In addition a small number of other textbooks and dictionaries in GR were published in Hong Kong and overseas from 1942 to 2000.

But despite support from a small number of trained linguists in China and overseas, GR met with public indifference and even hostility due to its complexity.

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

Now, in 1961, the Catholic population of England is still quite small ( ten per cent, or 5 million ) ; ;

He strengthened the power of the presidency, which he saw as spokesman for the entire population, as opposed to Congressmen from a specific small district.

The coast contains sufficient estuaries, inlets, rivers, islands, swamps and marshes to have been then inaccessible to those not familiar with the terrain, such as the Romans, who considered it unknown, inaccessible, with a small population and of little economic interest.

Classical Arab music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Arab world.

More than 80 % of the population relies on subsistence agriculture, with only a small fraction directly involved in industry and services.

Deutero-Isaiah delivered his prophesies to this group, which was actually quite small – the majority of the population stayed in Judah.

The majority of the remaining population is in eastern and southern South Africa, with a small and separate population in the Etosha Pan of northern Namibia.

Whilst the population remains small, the impact of transfers will be greater, it is for that reason that the establishment of a " metapopulation management plan " occurs concurrently with conservation initiatives to enhance in-situ population growth and why this initiative is both urgent and fundamental to the future survival of mountain bongo in the wild.

Whilst the population remains small, the impact of transfers will be greater.

Most of the population lives in coastal cities, although the hinterland is occupied at most in small towns and villages along the rivers.

The first of the modern review articles on the subject ( MacKie 1965 ) did not, as is commonly believed, propose that brochs were built by immigrants, but rather that a hybrid culture of a small number of immigrants with the native population of the Hebrides produced them in the first century BC, basing them on earlier, simpler promontory forts.

The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.

After the Reform Act, which disenfranchised many of the rotten boroughs ( boroughs that had declined in importance, had only a small population, and had only a handful of eligible voters ), parliamentary constituencies began to diverge from the ancient boroughs.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

The sparse human population is largely nomadic, with some livestock, mostly small ruminants and camels.

Agriculture, while sufficient to support the small early settler population, has always been limited by the scarcity of arable land.

Only a small part of the population has more than an elemental knowledge of French, the official language.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

An inlet from the Pacific the Gulf of Nicoya contains several small islands, the largest of these being Chira Island with a population of around four thousand.

" The four National Gendarmerie legions each had a general staff, detached companies that were deployed in and around the major towns and population centers in their respective prefectures, and a small number of mobile squads for rapid reaction and general support.