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Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
but during the middle daytime hours these skywave radiations are not reflected in any substantial quantity, and during this portion of the day both skywave service and skywave interference are, in general, negligible.
That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.
Modern avionics is a substantial portion of military aircraft spending.
The terms of Hopwood's will left a substantial portion of his estate to his alma mater, the University of Michigan for the establishment of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Creative Writing Awards.
Avibrás had paid off a substantial portion of its debt and was seeking ways to convert much of its production to civilian products.
Most cardinals are already bishops at the time of their appointment, the majority being archbishops of important archdioceses or patriarchs, and a substantial portion of the rest already titular archbishops serving in the Vatican.
Under the microscope, the Bacillus cells appear as rods, and a substantial portion usually contain an oval endospore at one end, making it bulge.
Several psychologists and ethologists have argued for the existence of animal consciousness by describing a range of behaviors that appear to show animals holding beliefs about things they cannot directly perceive — Donald Griffin's 2001 book Animal Minds reviews a substantial portion of the evidence.
Cryptozoology has been criticised because of its reliance on anecdotal information and because some cryptozoologists do not follow the scientific method and devote a substantial portion of their efforts to investigations of animals that most scientists believe are unlikely to have existed.
It also has a capacity to convert substantial portion of the intake into Refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ) materials for further combustion use in several energy consuming industries across Pakistan e. g., in cement manufacturing companies where it is used to heat up the Cement Kiln systems.
The DBMS data is an integral part of the database and may comprise a substantial portion of it.
The DBMS data is an integral part of the database and may comprise a substantial portion of it.
Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.
Most believed that Henry would divide the empire, giving each son a substantial portion, and hoping that his children would continue to work together as allies after his death.
However, a substantial portion of research in phonetics is not concerned with the meaningful elements in the speech signal.
A substantial portion of the archive has been digitized and is available online through the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Archives.
However, the government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its oil earnings, contributing to the government's shortage of revenues.
Its European portion, which occupies a substantial part of continental Europe, is home to most of Russia's industrial and agricultural activity.
Its borders currently encompass the entirety of Alabama ; almost all of Georgia ; all of Middle and East Tennessee, plus a substantial portion of West Tennessee ; a bit of the panhandle of Florida ; and small portion of Kentucky.
The Sultan of Zanzibar controlled a substantial portion of the East African coast, known as Zanj ; this included Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, and trading routes that extended much further inland, such as the route leading to Kindu on the Congo River.
This decade saw the rise of Napoleon I, who led the French army to conquer a substantial portion of Europe during this time.
In order to produce enriched uranium, the process of isotope separation removes a substantial portion of the U-235 for use in nuclear power, weapons, or other uses.
The Chinese experience with socialism with Chinese characteristics is frequently referred to as a " socialist market economy " in which the " commanding heights " remain in state ownership, but a substantial portion of both the state and private sectors of economy are governed by free market practices, including a stock exchange for trading equity.

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The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.
This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.
Consequently, no orthodox Muslim writer accepts the Gospel of Barnabas as transmitting the authentic Injil, and few deny that the known Italian text contains substantial elements of late fabrication.
" He points to the example of Verdi's Falstaff, whose musical text contains substantial contributions from the leader of the orchestra of La Scala which were apparently welcomed by the composer.
As Stephen Roy Miller argues in his 1998 edition of A Shrew ( although he does so in support of his adaptation theory ), " the differences between the texts are substantial and coherent enough to establish that there was deliberate revision in producing one text out of the other ; hence A Shrew is not merely a poor report ( or ' bad quarto ') of The Shrew.
In addition to these substantial textual expansions, the Samaritan Pentateuch on numerous occasions adds subjects, prepositions, particles, appositives, and the repetition of words and phrases within a single passage to clarify the meaning of the text.
The Samaritan Targum has a complex textual tradition represented by manuscripts belonging to one of three fundamental text types exhibiting substantial divergences from one another.
The text as a whole is lost, but substantial fragments survive in quotations by later authors.
* Several texts on or about Groulx including a substantial text on the historiographical debate on the charges of Anti-Semitism made against Lionel Groulx
The earliest Church Father to witness to a Byzantine text-type in substantial New Testament quotations is John Chrysostom ( c. 349 — 407 ); although the fragmentary surviving works of Asterius the Sophist († 341 ) have also been considered to conform to the Byzantine text.
A number of substantial papyrus manuscripts of portions of the New Testament survive from earlier still, and those that can be ascribed a text-type — such as < sup > 66 </ sup > and < sup > 75 </ sup > from the early 3rd century — also tend to witness to the Alexandrian text.
This publication, moreover, was not a completely accurate representation of Mussorgsky's score, but presented an edited and revised text that had been reworked to a certain amount, as well as containing a substantial number of errors and misreadings.
For example, goods may be manufactured in State A, warehoused in State B, sold from State C and delivered in State D. The UCC therefore achieved the goal of substantial uniformity in commercial laws and, at the same time, allowed the states the flexibility to meet local circumstances by modifying the UCC's text as enacted in each state.
The text of Oldcastle shows no clear signs of Drayton's hand ; traits of style consistent through the entire corpus of his poetry ( the rich vocabulary of plant names, star names, and other unusual words ; the frequent use of original contractional forms, sometimes with double apostrophes, like " th ' adult ' rers " or " pois ' ned ' st ") are wholly absent from the text, suggesting that his contribution to the collaborative effort was not substantial.
The Hogarth Press, run by her and her husband Leonard, had to turn down the chance to publish the novel in 1919, because of the obscenity law in England, as well as the practical issues regarding publishing such a substantial text.
Most of the time the received versions of the Tao Te Ching are in substantial agreement with each other, and most of the time the text is simple and straightforward.
It is by far the most substantial section of the book, consisting of nearly 300 of the book ’ s 480 text pages.
It is notable for being the only preserved Gothic text of substantial length that has not been translated from another language, but was written directly in Gothic by a native speaker.
It describes itself as " a freely-available set of ASCII files containing the marked-up text of a substantial English dictionary ".
It has therefore been seen as an important source for efforts to reconstruct Chaucer's original text and intentions, though John M. Manly and Edith Rickert in their Text of the Canterbury Tales ( 1940 ) noted that whoever edited the manuscript probably made substantial revisions, tried to regularise spelling, and put the individual Tales into a smoothly running order.
Furthermore, an assessment of the length of ' missing ' text between the recto and verso readings corresponds with that in the counterpart canonical Gospel of John ; and hence confirms that there are unlikely to have been substantial additions or deletions in this whole portion.
A text file is used to map the internal " object-like " names onto human-readable versions, and in most cases creating this is all that is needed to add fairly substantial scriptability to most programs.
When a major edit ( e. g. deletion of a substantial amount of text ) doesn't have an edit summary, there are fewer reasons to assume good faith and busy editors may be more inclined to revert the change without checking it in detail.

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