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.

Edinburgh also has substantial retail developments outside the city centre.

For example, in the mid-1970s a substantial number of the residents of Baqubah, the administrative center and major city of Diyala Governorate, were employed in agriculture.

During World War II, Lübeck was the first German city to be attacked in substantial numbers by the Royal Air Force.

Western countries were sympathetic to the Chinese in their struggle, particularly in their stubborn defence of Shanghai, a city with a substantial number of foreigners.

At the moment the city's road network is undergoing substantial development to ameliorate the situation of traffic in the city.

Later, on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant, using both African slaves and white colonists, collaborated with the city government in the construction of a more substantial fortification, a strengthened wall.

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town or city, usually one which contains substantial visible remains.

By 1900 Cripple Creek and its sister city, Victor, were substantial mining communities.

In the United States, many Molfettese immigrants settled in the city of Hoboken, NJ, where a substantial enclave still exists today

The child-like Lummox is perceived to be a neighborhood nuisance and, upon leaving the Stuart property one day, causes substantial property damage across the city of Westville.

With the addition of this new area, Brooklyn grew from a substantial community of 36, 236 to an influential city of 96, 838.

The city municipality stretches over a substantial area and includes several separate neighborhoods that are part of the Kerch city: Eltigen ( Heroyevskoe ), Kamysh-Burun ( Arshyntsevo ), Port Krym, Adzhimushkai, and Tuzla Island.

The city has experienced substantial gentrification in the 1990s and early 2000s, with many group houses containing accessory apartments being converted back into single-family homes.

Lexington suffers considerable traffic congestion for a city of its size due to the lack of out-or inbound freeways, the proximity of the University of Kentucky to downtown, and the substantial number of commuters from outlying towns.

The epicenter of the quake, which measured 7. 3 on the Richter scale, was in eastern Romania and subsequently led to substantial destruction in the city.

The peasants received help from members of the noble classes — one example being William Tonge, a substantial alderman, who opened the London city gate through which the masses streamed on the night of 12 June.

The city features a lengthy rainy season from April through November where a substantial amount of rainfall is received and a relatively short, dry season from December through March, where little rainfall is seen.

The city experiences substantial summer precipitation mostly concentrated in thunderstorms and heavy showers with rain events occasionally lasting up to a few weeks at time giving residents " the Summer blues ", while winter is beautifully sunny, warm, and fairly dry.

With Stirling's development as a market town and its location as the focus of transport and communications in the region, it has developed a substantial retail sector serving a wide range of surrounding communities as well as the city itself.

It destroyed approximately 58 houses in Bendigo's western suburbs, and damaged an electricity transmission line, resulting in blackouts to substantial parts of the city.

From then, the population growth has been substantial, from 41, 014 inhabitants in 1960 to 108, 100 inhabitants that the city has as of the end of 2008.

A typical metropolitan area is centered around a single large city that wields substantial influence over the region ( e. g. Chicago ).

It became a favorite city of Emperor Constantine I, who built baths there, substantial remains of which are still standing.

Scores of people flock out of entire Greece, bringing in substantial revenue to the city.