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About half of political prisoners in the Gulag camps were imprisoned without trial ; official data suggest that there were over 2. 6 million sentences to imprisonment on cases investigated by the secret police throughout 1921-1953.
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About half of all Peace Corps projects assigned to voluntary agencies will be carried out by religious groups, according to an official of the corps.
About half of these are exported.
About half of Armenia's area of approximately has an elevation of at least, and only 3 % of the country lies below.
About 70 specimens have survived, roughly half of them on fibulae, others on belt buckles ( see Pforzen buckle, Bülach fibula ) and other jewelry and weapon parts.
About half of the NCOs are sergeants, who serve as command links between officers and ranks.
About half of those are located on the European continent, rather than on the British Isles.
About half of the 50 houses on this road had prostitutes advertising themselves in the windows, similar to Amsterdam.
About half of the floor is taken up by the apartment of the Residence Life Coordinator.
About half of the refugees were SPLA soldiers with more than 5000 weapons, who allegedly occupied towns as far as 200 km into the C. A. R.
About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.
About half of El Niño events persist sufficiently into the spring months for the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool ( WHWP ) to become unusually large in summer.
About a thousand known geysers exist worldwide, roughly half of which are in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.
About half of Germany's 500, 000 Jews fled before 1939, after which escape became almost impossible.
About half of Hungary ’ s total land area is agricultural area under cultivation ; this ratio is prominent among other EU members.
About London, for instance, perhaps half the prettier country is shut in against intrusion.
About half of all hafnium metal manufactured is produced as a by-product of zirconium refinement.
: ( UK ) About half Wales's size
About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).
About half the population live below the international poverty line of US $ 1. 25 a day.
About half of the territory is above the tree line.
About half of the currently recognised " traditional " English rhymes were known by the mid-18th century.
About half of the nucleoporins typically contain either an alpha solenoid or a beta-propeller fold, or in some cases both as separate structural domains.
About 5 – 10 % of these latent infections will eventually progress to active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than half of its victims.
About half of the residents had fled the city, including President George Washington.
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" About Nelson Mandela he said, " When Mandela goes it will be a moment when all South Africans put away their political differences, will take hands, and will together honour maybe the biggest South African that has ever lived.
About the political disenfranchisement of the Russian capitalist social classes, Lenin said that ‘ depriving the exploiters of the franchise is a purely Russian question, and not a question of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in general ....
About 90, 000 Viet Minh were evacuated to the North while 5, 000 to 10, 000 cadre remained in the South, most of them with orders to refocus on political activity and agitation.
About 200 Yavapai and Apache people returned to the Verde Valley in 1900 and have since intermingled as a single political entity although culturally distinct.
About forty-nine percent of this amount was accounted for by political measures: 37 billion euros due to direct payments and 43 billion euros from consumers due to the artificially high price.
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* A. N. Wilson: Scandal ( 1985 ) ( About how a political scandal is created by the tabloid press ).
About 300 Communards were sentenced to deportation with forced labor ; these were the people convicted of crimes such as arson in addition to their political crimes.
" About the Middle East: " if we ever get into the Mitchell process, where we can start discussing a political solution in the Middle East, that I believe there ought to be a Palestinian state, the boundaries of which will be negotiated by the parties so long as the Palestinian state recognizes the right of Israel to exist, and will treat Israel with respect, and will be peaceful on her borders.
About his contribution, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the Nobel Laureate, writes: " The vision and influence of Mr. Subramaniam in bringing about agricultural change and in the very necessary political decisions needed to make the new approach effective, should never be under-emphasized.
On May 15, 1891, Leo XIII issued an encyclical on political issues known as Rerum Novarum ( Latin: " About New Things ").
About 1640 he began an active political career in opposition to the king.
About 40, 000 political prisoners were relocated here from the west of the country.
About 16 %, mainly the area around Lake Altaussee ( Ausseerland-Region ), are part of the province of Styria ( district of Liezen – political branch district of Bad Aussee ).
Another sample of Henry Arthur Jones political writing is his response to George Bernard Shaw's anti-war manifesto Common Sense About the War: " The hag Sedition was your mother, and Perversity begot you.
It was launched " by a gang of school activists " in 1966 as This Magazine is About Schools, a journal covering political issues in the education system.
About " Obey ", San Diego Union-Tribune art critic Robert L. Pincus said: " work was a reaction against earlier political art, since it delivered no clear message.
About literature in prose there was more freedom ; the main areas were historiography, philosophy and political rhetoric.
About 90 % of Palestinians are Sunni Muslims, and while never absent from the rhetoric and thinking of the secularist PLO factions, Islamic political doctrines, or Islamism, didn't become a large part of the Palestinian movement until the 1980s rise of Hamas.
About the fortress, 104 prison casemates were built, providing cells for 2, 940, mostly political, prisoners.
About 1697 he settled permanently in Hamburg, and became the chief composer at the highly renowned Gänsemarktoper ( now rebuilt as the Hamburg State Opera ) in Hamburg from 1697 to 1717 ; however he was actually first the director in 1702, and was not at various times from then to 1717, almost each time due to political instabilities.
Writing in an article about " There's Something About Marrying " for The New York Times, Sharon Waxman said that " as television's longest-running situation comedy, The Simpsons is no stranger to hot-button social, religious and political issues, mocking wardrobe malfunctions, Hollywood liberals and born-again Christians, among other targets.
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate ( 2012 ) describes how countries ' respective political and social histories have been shaped by factors like relationship to oceans and to terrain features that act as natural borders.
About 4, 000 of political and criminal prisoners, arrested during the first Soviet occupation, were to be transported to Russia.
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