Almost mirroring the CPP exactly, the QPP is a contributory earnings-related pension plan that pays benefits in the event of the earner becoming disabled, retiring, or dying.

Almost all of Nabokov's fictions make ample use of doubling, duplication, and mirroring, mostly in Pale Fire and Lolita.

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

Almost a century later later, this decision would see Sergius ’ name removed from the Diptychs by Patriarch Sergius II of Constantinople.

Almost thirty volumes of Savonarola ’ s sermons and writings have so far been published in the Edizione nazionale delle Opere di Girolamo Savonarola ( Rome, Angelo Belardetti, 1953 to the present ).

He states specifically, " Almost all critical approaches to this play have been coloured by the sexist assumptions the critics have brought with them to their reading .” One seemingly anti-sexist viewpoint comes from Donald C. Freeman ’ s articulations of the meaning and significance of the deaths of both Antony and Cleopatra at the end of the play.

Almost all American households have at least one television, more than three-quarters of all adolescents ’ homes have access to Internet, and more than 90 % of American adolescents use the Internet at least occasionally.

Almost all the equipment was home made and the entire library consisted of a single very old copy of Webster ’ s dictionary.

As stated in psychiatrist James Ketchum ’ s book Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten, work that evolved when a general envisioned a scheme to incapacitate an entire trawler with aerosolized BZ was dubbed Project DORK.

According to Clif White, " The three years on MGM were by far the most erratic in Solomon ’ s career, from the sublime " Drown in My Own Tears " on the We ’ re Almost Home album, which is sung to just an acoustic guitar accompaniment, to the ridiculous " Icbyanti W. T.

Almost the whole of Eric ’ s sole rule was affected by his long-standing conflict with the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein.

Almost all of Morelia ’ s notable sites lie in its historic center, due to its history.

Almost nothing is known of George Taylor ’ s life before his arrival in Philadelphia in 1736, although there is general agreement regarding northern Ireland ( possibly Ulster ) as his birthplace.

Almost a third of the party ’ s permanent members were from that surrounding area.

Almost 2 decades later, the Supreme Court on June 16, 2009 per Antonio Eduardo B. Nachura denied Pateros ’ petition against Makati but ruled out that the boundary dispute should be settled amicably by their respective legislative bodies based on Section 118 ( d ) of the Local Government Code ( Panaligan, 2009 ).

Almost a different social strata in a weird way ; they ’ re all private school boys so we never had that much in common ".

Almost all of the syndicalist unions attended the 1920 congress of the Bolsheviks ’ international of communists, the Comintern, which unions in France and Italy joined immediately.

Almost every day I ’ m recording a thought or image on the pages of my current workbook for future use.

Almost everything in the original script was discarded except for Lo Pan ’ s story.

Almost immediately thereafter the alarm was raised because the fire had spread to Rasmussen ’ s place in the Kirkegate, which lay two blocks further into the city, as well as at the Latin school.

Almost immediately after docking at Salyut 7 ’ s aft port, the crew entered Cosmos 1443 and commenced transferring the 3. 5 tons of cargo lining its walls to Salyut 7.

Almost half of the Transportation Systems group ’ s sales are in Europe, where 50 percent of vehicles are turbo diesel and 27 percent are gasoline boosted.

Almost to the end of her life, Flagstad continued to sing in fine voice, although she increasingly sang mezzo-soprano material or in a mezzo range: besides the Rheingold Fricka ( a mezzo role ), Decca planned to cast her also as the Walkure Fricka and the Gotterdammerung Waltraute for its complete Ring ( in the event, the roles were sung by others ), and also to record her in Brahms ’ Four Serious Songs and Alto Rhapsody ; that these plans were shelved only by her final illness and death stands as a testament to her superbly consistent vocal abilities, and to the respect and affection in which she was held to the end by record companies and the public.

Almost all the county about Ennistymon save for a few gentlemen ’ s residences and their demesnes was up to the early 19th century covered with woods mainly of oak and ash.

Almost 80 % of Crosspool ’ s housing is either detached or semi-detached, again well above the average.

Almost all of these " esperantido " s were stillborn, but the very first, Ido (" Offspring "), had significant success for several years.

* Almost surely or a. s., in probability theory, an event with probability 1

Almost every episode ended with either Ryan or JB destroying the monster of the day ( Kaitlin never got to destroy any on her own ), at which point his missing comrade ( s ) would come running up to inquire how the fight went.

Almost half of the entire book comprises The Book of Adela ’ s Followers, the original text around which the rest grew.

Almost 70 % of the Australian Capital Territory ’ s pasture, forests ( pine plantations ) and nature parks were severely damaged, and most of the renowned Mount Stromlo Observatory was destroyed.

Almost immediately after the opening of Consall station, attention turned to extending the railway ’ s operating line a further two miles to Kingsley & Froghall station, an important commercial decision for the growth of the railway, as previously Cheddleton was the only public vehicular point of access, and the station and car park were limiting the number of visitors that the railway could accommodate.

Almost all the principles laid down by him have proved sound, although his remarkable skill in expounding the fellow-servant rule considerably delayed the replacement of that rule by workmen ’ s compensation.

Almost twenty years after The Welsh Sonata, in 1972, Hanley ’ s second Welsh novel, Another World appeared.

Almost immediately after meeting Clifford, she warns Sidney that Clifford is the man in boots.

Almost from the opening meeting the power of the Holy Spirit became manifest, and many who came to those services indifferent as to spiritual matters, but curious to know what was going on, had their consciences awakened and were led to " put their trust in the Saviour ".

Almost immediately she was ashamed of herself for feeling vain, at such a time, in such a place, and she tossed back her long yellow hair, smiling shyly as she entered the room.

Almost three decades ago Bertha Reynolds undertook a study of short-contact interviewing because of her conviction that short-term casework had an important but neglected place in our network of social services.

Almost upon arrival in Syria she began a plot, with her advisor and Elagabalus ' tutor Gannys, to overthrow Macrinus and elevate the fourteen-year-old Elagabalus to the imperial throne.

Almost four years after her marriage in December 1493, Isabella gave birth to her first child out of an eventual total of eight ; it was a daughter, Eleonora, whom they called Leonora for short.

Almost immediately after John Cage finished teaching at the New School for Social Research in the summer of 1960, Ono was determined to rent a place to present her works along with the work of other New York avant-garde artists.

Almost without resources, Johanna wrote to the Duke of Weimar a letter in which she narrated her current plight.

Almost immediately, she wrote to her father, Philip the Fair, complaining of Edward's behaviour.

Almost everybody has at least one or two moles somewhere on his or her body, while large numbers can be concentrated on the back, chest, and arms.

Almost all scholars today view this as historical revisionism, or prolepsis, on Hatshepsut's part since it was Thutmose II — a son of Thutmose I by Mutnofret — who was her father's heir.

Almost immediately, with the sudden popularity of her first pictures, she became a screen icon.

Almost immediately, Sauvé made it clear that she would use her time as vicereine to promote issues surrounding youth and world peace, as well as that of national unity.

Almost the whole of The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to the plot ( unless Katharina's subservience to her " lord " in the last scene is intended to strengthen the deception against the tinker ) and is often dropped in modern productions.

Almost immediately he met Marjorie Cameron right in his own home, and regarded her as the Scarlet Woman and the fulfillment of the ritual.

Some of her most commercially successful work was in the action genre, but Cheung once said in an interview that of all the work she has done, the films that really meant something to her are Song of Exile, Centre Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love.

In 2002, Simon recorded a Christmas album, Christmas Is Almost Here, for Rhino Records, while she was in Los Angeles to lend support to her son Ben Taylor and his band.

2003 saw a re-release of her 2002 Christmas album with two extra tracks and now called Christmas Is Almost Here Again on Rhino Records.

She performed vocals on the tracks " Midnight Clear ", " Suspended Note ", " Hymn to the Secret Heart " and " Forgive " ( which was a song Simon wrote for her own 2002 holiday album Christmas Is Almost Here ).

Almost all of her dialogue prior to line 32 (" If thou be he, then thou art prisoner ") is delivered direct to camera, including her incredulous description of the difference between the real Talbot, and the reports she has heard of him.

The Cameron Crowe-created movie " Almost Famous " features a scene where a Black Sabbath groupie is telling aspiring journalist William Miller ( said to be created in Crowe's own image ) about how, " Marc Bolan broke her heart, man.

Almost all Wilder scholars and her biographers consider that the writing of the books was a tense but ultimately effective continuing collaboration between mother and daughter: Wilder writing the books and her daughter editing them.