These data are not of the precision obtainable by the methods previously mentioned, but the vast number of approximate values available will be useful in many areas.

The vast number of compounds to be covered, the limited resources to do the job, and the immediate need for this type of compilation precluded a thorough evaluation of all available data in the present edition.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

Among the vast number of different biomolecules, many are complex and large molecules ( called biopolymers ), which are composed of similar repeating subunits ( called monomers ).

Taking advantage of Roman military disarray, a vast number of barbarian peoples overran much of the empire.

The apparent contradiction between the fact that there can be only seven protoctists but also a vast number of archangels to be promoted to their order is problematic.

She successfully educated herself by immersing herself in languages, in the rediscovered classics and humanism of the early Renaissance, and in Charles V ’ s royal archive that housed a vast number of manuscripts.

The number of Druze people worldwide exceeds one million, with the vast majority residing in the Levant or East Mediterranean.

The Darwin Awards site does try to verify all submitted stories, but many similar sites, and the vast number of circulating " Darwin awards " emails, are largely fictional.

This leads to the Great Filter, which notes that since there are no observed extraterrestrial civilizations, despite the vast number of stars, then some step in the process must be acting as a filter to reduce the final value.

This research did not investigate how experts find, distinguish, and retrieve the " right " chunks from the vast number they hold without a lengthy search of long term memory.

The vast majority of New Testament scholars hold 1 Thessalonians to be authentic, although a number of scholars in the mid-19th century contested its authenticity, most notably Clement Schrader and F. C.

The movement is highly diverse and encompasses a vast number of people.

Approximately 1, 200 verses of the Qur ' an speak of life after death and the Day of Resurrection, as do a vast number of sayings related from Muhammad and his successors.

The age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that unless the Earth is very atypical, extraterrestrial life should be common.

In a free market, the system of prices is the emergent result of a vast number of voluntary transactions, rather than of political decrees as in a controlled market.

A number of exhibitions have also taken place since 2000, and recent works of art have fetched vast sums of money.

A vast number of graph measures exist, and the production of useful ones for various domains remains an active area of research.

Buchenwald concentration camp was not an extermination camp, though it was responsible for a vast number of deaths

" The book also points out that the group lumps a vast number of species together, so that no one characteristic describes all invertebrates.

The book went through a vast number of editions and was translated into several languages, an English version, by Henry Lussan, appearing in 1694.

Because Banaba was devastated by phosphate mining, the vast majority of Banabans moved to the island of Rabi in the Fiji Islands in the 1940s where they now number some 5, 000 and enjoy full Fijian citizenship.

The vast majority of these one million or more swords were guntō, but there were still a sizable number of older swords.

There are a number of reasons cited for the discrepancy between the vast mineral wealth of the province and the failure of the wealth to increase the overall standard of living.

For those characters ( the vast majority ) which were later engraved into the hard surface using a knife, perhaps by a separate individual, there is evidence ( from incompletely engraved pieces ) that in at least some cases all the strokes running one way were carved, then the piece was turned, and strokes running another way were then carved.

It therefore covers a wide range of works, usually small and three-dimensional, of high quality and finish in areas of the decorative arts, such as metalwork items, with or without enamel, small carvings, statuettes and plaquettes in any material, including engraved gems, hardstone carvings, ivory carvings including Japanese netsuke and similar items, non-utilitarian porcelain and glass, and a vast range of objects that would also be classed as antiques ( or indeed antiquities ), such as small clocks, watches, gold boxes, and sometimes textiles, especially tapestries.

The pavement shows vast designs in commesso work — white marble, that is, engraved with the outlines of the subject in black, and having borders inlaid with rich patterns in many colours.

Dhauli hill, with a vast open space adjoining it, has major Edicts of Ashoka engraved on a mass of rock by the side of the road leading to the summit of the hill.

Of the surviving Demand Notes, the vast majority are $ 5 and $ 10 notes with " For the " engraved on them and from the locations of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, France, several dozen dolmens are found.

Given that the vast majority of all emeralds are treated as described above, and the fact that two stones that appear visually similar may actually be quite far apart in treatment level and therefore in value, a consumer considering a purchase of an expensive emerald is well advised to insist upon a treatment report from a reputable gemological laboratory.

Intensive weathering has produced vast areas of eroded stones on the mountain slopes and summits of the northern areas.

Near Djelfa, in the Great Atlas, and at Mechra-Sfa (" ford of the flat stones "), a peninsula in the valley of the river Mina not far from Tiaret, are vast numbers of megalithic monuments.

I was wonderfully surprised at the sight of theose vast stones, of which I had never heard before ; as also at the mighty Banke and Graffe about it.

The extensive use of precious and semiprecious stones as inlay and the vast quantity of white marble required nearly bankrupted the empire.

The extensive use of precious and semiprecious stones as inlay and the vast quantity of white marble required nearly bankrupted the empire.

Although there are isolated examples of thimbles made of precious metals — Elizabeth I is said to have given one of her ladies-in-waiting a thimble set with precious stones — the vast majority of metal thimbles were made of brass.

The evidence for this lies in the occurrence of numerous " erratics " or far-travelled ice-borne stones, some of which are of immense size, as well as the vast deposits of glacial sands and gravels in the district.

Aminabad is announced by vast fields of stones hemmed in by dry stone walls, and fortress-like houses of stone and mud.

The Private Stock line of PRS guitars are made utilizing a vast range of exotic materials including various stones, elaborately figured tone woods, and intricate shells for inlays.

In John Keats ’ Hyperion the passage “ Scarce images of life, one here, one there ,/ Lay vast and edgeways ; like a dismal cirque / Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor …“ is alleged to have been inspired by his visit to the stones ; a visit, it seems, with which he was less than impressed.

The vast majority of scholars, however, do not believe it is an either / or proposition and cite the documented usage of stones and pebbles by the Muhammad's Companions as evidence for their inherent lawfulness.

This includes a later medieval parish church-with the majority of its vast stones still very much in place ( having been buried in centuries of sand until the parish priest took matters into his own hands and, with the help of locals, dug up the area surrounding it ).

At Mechra-Sfa (" ford of the flat stones "), a peninsula in the valley of the river Mina not far from Tahert, are said to be ' vast numbers ' of megalithic monuments.