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.

A vast number of engraved stones are in existence, to which the name " Abrasax-stones " has long been given.

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.

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.

Modern game or graphics engines generally provide a scene graph, which is an object-oriented representation of the 3D game world which often simplifies game design and can be used for more efficient rendering of vast virtual worlds.

The vast majority of applications using 3D systems describe the objects in their " world " in a data structure known as a scene graph.

While the brain has hardware tailored to the task of processing signals through a graph of neurons, simulating even a most simplified form on Von Neumann technology may compel a NN designer to fill many millions of database rows for its connections-which can consume vast amounts of computer memory and hard disk space.

) Another example is the United States, where, despite being a federal republic where no direct democracy exists at the federal level, almost half the states ( and many localities ) provide for citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives ( also called " ballot measures " or " ballot questions ") and the vast majority of the states have either initiatives and / or referendums.

Curzon did, however, implement a variety of measures, including opening up famine reliefs works that fed between 3 and 5 million, reducing taxes and spending vast amounts of money on irrigation works.

In these countries, strange bedfellows can often be found arguing for similar measures despite otherwise vast differences in political ideology.

After the Nazi Vidkun Quisling was made dictatorial head of state by the German occupiers during World War II, and introduced a number of controversial measures such as state-controlled education, the Church's bishops and the vast majority of the clergy disassociated themselves from the government in the Foundations of the Church ( Kirkens Grunn ) declaration of Easter 1942, stating that they would only function as pastors for their congregations, not as civil servants.

The vast painting — it measures 10 by 22 feet ( 3. 1 by 6. 6 meters )— drew both praise and fierce denunciations from critics and the public, in part because it upset convention by depicting a prosaic ritual on a scale which previously would have been reserved for a religious or royal subject.

Between control over amendments, debate, and when measures will be considered, the Rules Committee exerts vast power in the House.

He is generally conservative on social issues ; he strongly opposes abortion and has been one of the few Democrats to vote against even embryonic stem cell research and the vast majority of gun control measures.

On the other hand, the presence of different measures opens a vast potential for many challenging questions and directions of further research.

He had been invited by Sue Mingus to catalogue a trunkful of Mingus's handwritten charts and in the process had discovered a vast assortment of orchestral pages written by Mingus with measures numbered consecutively well into the thousands.

Due to technical reasons, the most important impediment being the different television formats used in the two countries, see PAL and NTSC ; also ( see DVD article for further details on controversial " copy protection " measures ), the British version cannot be readily viewed with the vast majority of American set-top DVD players.

The basic nursing care offered in the hospitals was simple, but was generally a vast improvement over other medical and public health measures in the city.

There exist programs that generate " human-sounding " melodies by using a vast database of phrases.

The middle way recognizes there are vast differences between the way things are perceived to exist and the way things really exist.

In an industry where a natural monopoly does not exist, the vast majority of industries, the marginal cost decreases with economies of scale, then increases as the company has growing pains ( overworking its employees, bureaucracy, inefficiencies, etc .).

In this view, speculation about a vast range of possible conditions in which life cannot exist is used to explore the probability of conditions in which life can and does exist.

Thus, while it is hypothesized to exist and comprise the vast majority of matter in the universe, almost all of its properties are unknown and a matter of speculation, because it has only been observed through its gravitational effects.

While a small number of purpose-built courses exist, the vast majority of cross country running courses are created by cordoning a specific area within any open natural land, typically a park, woodland or greenspace near a settlement.

From a game theoretical point of view, there are two explanations for the vast variety of norms that exist throughout the world.

The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe.

Atmospheric solitons also exist, such as the Morning Glory Cloud of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where pressure solitons travelling in a temperature inversion layer produce vast linear roll clouds.

He and his relatives are often mentioned in Nigerian 419 letter scams claiming to offer vast fortunes for " help " in laundering his stolen " fortunes ", which in reality turn out not to exist.

The ethnically and culturally heterogeneous nation state of Austria is the remnant of Austria-Hungary, a vast multinational empire that ceased to exist in 1918.

Numerous vast plantations existed, the central houses of some of which still exist.

Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the wall and ceiling paintings in the great Sala di Cosimo I of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where he and his assistants were at work from 1555, and the frescoes he started inside the vast cupola of the Duomo, completed by Federico Zuccari and with the help of Giovanni Balducci.

The chapel, containing Mère Angélique's tomb, as well as some buildings, still exist in the vast grounds of what eventually became Paris ' leading maternity hospital, known as Port-Royal Hospital.

Today it seems no longer to exist as a distinct musical form ; it has been absorbed into the vast maw of Salsa.

While there are dozens, if not hundreds, of classifiers that exist, which must be memorized individually for each noun, the vast majority of words generally use " 個 / 个 gè ".

Tensions still exist, but the vast majority of citizens are no longer affected by violence.

The vast majority of Chinese Buddhists are Mahayana ; while minority are Vajrayana, among them Tibetans, Mongols, and Manchu who traditionally follow their Tibetan Buddhism, and small communities of Theravada also exist among the minority ethnic groups live in southern provinces as Yunnan and Guangxi which border Burma, Thailand and Laos.

Several vast paddy fields exist in the provinces of Ifugao, Nueva Ecija, Isabela, Cagayan, Bulacan, and other provinces.

Because of the vast differences in programs that can exist from dealership to dealership, it is important to know what is covered under the plan and what are the recommended service intervals ( see below ).

A vast amount of experimental and field examples exist.

A vast number of pastebin related websites exist on the Internet, suiting a number of different needs and providing features tailored towards the crowd they focus on most.