Almost 80 % of all traffic fatalities in the city of Dhaka alone involve pedestrians being hit by a fuel based vehicle.

Almost alone among Western scientists, John Desmond Bernal, Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, made an aggressive public defense of Lysenko and some years later gave an obituary of ‘ Stalin as a Scientist .’ However, despite Bernal's endorsement, other members of Britain's scientific community retreated from open support of the Soviet Union, and may have been one of the chief reasons for a retreat from Marxism in that country.

Almost as impressive was the challenge of delivering the enormous quantities of water by gravity alone, across very hilly country and over many river valleys, to the new Frankley Reservoir on the outskirts of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England.

Alasdair MacIntyre has written that " Almost alone among his contemporaries Fletcher understood the dilemma confronting Scotland as involving more radical alternatives than they were prepared to entertain ".

Almost uniquely for predatory birds, the female rears the young alone.

" Almost all major problems involve human behavior, and they cannot be solved by physical and biological technology alone.

Almost alone among the fellows he was not driven out in November 1687, and he became dean and then vice-president of the college under the new regime, but was expelled in October 1688.

Almost any digital camera can be coupled with a stand alone GPS and post processed with photo mapping software, to write the location information to the image's exif header.

Almost alone, he kept the Committee to Defend America from focusing its entire campaign on the war in Europe.

Almost every official who reflects on it thinks this movement of Americans to canvas dwellings opens one of the most promising of all outdoor markets.

Almost no empirical work has been done on the problem of alienation.

Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.

Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to " Woolfson / Parsons ".

Almost all of Bulgaria's 500, 000-man standing army was positioned against these two countries, on two fronts – western and southern, while the borders with Romania and the Ottoman Empire were left almost unguarded.

Almost half of the Allied soldiers on D-day were British.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

Almost all buses on national routes are air-conditioned and offer pleasant traveling comfort.

Human Rights Watch, the umbrella organization of Americas Watch, replied to these allegations: " Almost invariably, U. S. pronouncements on human rights exaggerated and distorted the real human rights violations of the Sandinista regime, and exculpated those of the U. S .- supported insurgents, known as the contras ....

When the scrolling arrows overlap the stationary ones, the player must step on the corresponding arrows on the dance platform, and the player is given a judgment for their accuracy of every streaked notes ( From highest to lowest: Marvelous, Perfect, Great, Good, Almost, Miss.

Almost 11 years to the day of Dana Plato's death, on May 6, 2010, Plato's son Tyler Lambert died at age 25 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Almost all the annual rainfall and the highest humidity occurs during this time, and yearly rain totals, particularly on southern-facing mountain slopes, can be as high as.

Almost immediately, French forces faced defeat on many fronts, and were driven out of their newly conquered territories in the spring of 1793.

Almost all reports are based on his measurements.

Almost 70 years after Copernicus's death and building on his theories, astronomer Johannes Kepler from Stuttgart was a leader in the 17th century scientific revolution.

Almost all its population lives on or very near to the coast.

Almost all live sports broadcasts on radio are backhauled to their main studios via ISDN connections.

Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).

Almost on the same day that the National Council of Education was set up, a rival organisation, the Society for Promotion of Technical Education in Bengal, was set up by Taraknath Palit.

Almost all of the initially favourable reports Ribbentrop provided to Berlin about the alliance's prospects were based on friendly remarks about the " New Germany " from various British aristocrats like Lord Londonderry and Lord Lothian ; the rather cool reception that Ribbentrop received from British Cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats did not make much of an impression on him at first.

During this time, Linkin Park received many invitations to perform on many high-profile tours and concerts including Ozzfest, Family Values Tour and KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas.

Almost as soon as Jerusalem had been captured, and continuing throughout the 12th century, many pilgrims arrived and left accounts of the new kingdom ; among them are the English Saewulf, the Russian Abbot Daniel, the Frank Fretellus, the Byzantine Johannes Phocas, and the Germans John of Würzburg and Theoderich.

Almost all speakers of the Judeo-Berber language left Morocco in the years following its independence.

Almost immediately dispatched elsewhere on Napoleon's orders, he left his unfinished work in the hands of a colleague, Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon, who in 1803 produced the first published translations of the Greek text, in both Latin and French to ensure that they would circulate widely.

Almost at the same time Broglie fell upon a part of the Austrians left on the Vltava and won a small, but morally and politically important, success in the action of Sahay, near Budweis ( 24 May 1742 ).

Almost nothing is left of the Bastille except some remains of its stone foundation that were relocated to the side of the Boulevard Henri IV.

Almost all of them subsequently left the city and the country.

Almost as soon as the king left, Egypt rebelled against Assyrian rule.

Almost the entire parish was flooded, with most areas left with between 5 and of standing water.

Mullen left Enjoi to head Almost Skateboards with Daewon Song, the company which he still helms and skates for.

Almost as soon as the king left, Egypt rebelled against Assyrian rule.

Almost everyone I spoke with left the conference believing that a real, thriving and broad-based progressive student movement was overdue, necessary and most importantly, possible .”

Almost all non-Cambodians had left the country by early May 1975, following an overland evacuation of the French Embassy in trucks.

Almost immediately after being awarded her Ph. D., Haghighatjoo left Iran for the United States with her husband, a journalist, and their daughter.

Almost by default, WKEF was then left to take the NBC affiliation.

Almost thirty years later Kelly told Alice Pitman of The Oldie that she was " very bitter at the time, very, very bitter " and recalled that Braden's producer, Desmond Wilcox, who subsequently married Rantzen, had brought together Kelly, Rantzen and newsreader Angela Rippon for a pilot of an afternoon show, although, in Kelly's view, " it was just a front-he wanted Esther, and Angela and I were sort of left dangling.

Almost three centuries after Revan left to combat the True Sith, it was assumed that he failed as the true Sith Empire finally launched their invasion.

Almost from the moment Platt – the 1990 PFA Player of the Year at Aston Villa and one of Bobby Robson's shining lights at the World Cup finals of the same year – left England in a transfer-record move to Serie A club Bari, Mancini saw the asset he would be at Sampdoria, where the Italian was captain.

Almost all speakers of Judeo-Berber left Morocco in the years following its independence, and their children have mainly grown up speaking other languages.

Almost a year after Soundgarden's break-up, in summer 1998, Cameron was invited by rock-colleagues Pearl Jam to drum on its U. S. Yield Tour after the band's drummer Jack Irons left due to health issues.

Almost all that remains above ground of the Bishop of Bangor's 13th century palace at Gogarth is the short wall on the left, the narrow column to the right of centre collapsed into the sea during the storms of March 2005

Almost a year after the election, Lynn Arnold resigned as Labor leader, and left politics.

Almost all we know about the heresy is found in accounts left by their accusers ( a not uncommon phenomenon in medieval heresies ).

Almost nobody left the team, and incoming transfers looked promising.