Among single-winner election systems where voters act in their own best interests, approval voting comes closest to reflecting the overall will of the people as measured in terms of minimizing Bayesian regret.

Among the pieces he played was his own first composition, written two years previously: a short piece called " The Course of the Danube " ( de Toth 1999 ).

Among the more well-known clown stunts are: squirting flower ; the " too-many-clowns-coming-out-of-a-tiny-car " stunt ; doing just about anything with a rubber chicken, tripping over ones own feet ( or an air pocket or imaginary blemish in the floor ), or riding any number of ridiculous vehicles or " clown bikes ".

Among those films not themselves considered film noirs, perhaps none had a greater effect on the development of the genre than America's own Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), the landmark motion picture directed by Orson Welles.

Among the Luo the larger agricultural production unit was the patriarch's extended family, mainly divided into a special assignment team led by the patriarch, and the teams of his wives, who, together with their children, worked their own lots on a regular basis.

Among his last completed works were the illustrations for Balzac's Droll Stories ( 1961 ) and for his own poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), which he had written some 15 years earlier.

Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Among those who don't believe are a son of Alma who also shares the name Alma ( but he is usually differentiated as " Alma the Younger "), and King's Mosiah's own sons.

Among the loudest of those who insist the magazine is no longer funny are supporters of Harvey Kurtzman, who had the good critical fortune to leave Mad after just 28 issues, before his own formulaic tendencies might have become obtrusive.

Among contemporary political thinkers who believe that natural persons enjoy rights to own property and to enter into contracts, there are two views about John Locke.

Among his producing credits are the horror film Hostel ( which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction ), the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot ( for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer, although he was no longer associated with the film after its 2009 release.

Among those who maintain that the see of Rome, occupied by what they declare to be an illegitimate pope, was really vacant, some have chosen an alternative pope of their own, and thus in their view ended the vacancy of the see.

Among American linguists, Benjamin Lee Whorf had " the most profound effect on my own thinking ".

Among his followers, his own protégé Marcelo Nisinman is the best known innovator of the tango music of the new millennium, while Pablo Ziegler, pianist with Piazzolla's second quintet, has assumed the role of principal custodian of nuevo tango, extending the jazz influence in the style.

Among the most famous of his orchestral transcriptions is his own Le Tombeau de Couperin ( 1917 ) of which he orchestrated the Prelude, Forlane, Minuet, and Rigaudon movements in 1919.

Among Esperanto speakers there was a general impression that the Delegation would of course choose Esperanto, as it was the only auxlang with a sizable speaker community at the time ; it was felt as a betrayal by many Esperanto speakers when in 1907 the Delegation came up with its own reformed version of Esperanto, Ido.

Among other problems, Durandal has gone rampant and appears to be playing the humans against the Pfhor to further his own mysterious agenda ; ultimately leading the S ' pht, one of the races enslaved by the Pfhor, in a rebellion.

( Among findings were that no slaves adopted Jefferson as a surname, but many had their own surnames as early as the eighteenth century.

Among double reed players, advanced and professional players typically make their own reeds, while beginners and students often buy reeds either from their teachers or from commercial sources.

Among Pablo Picasso's acquaintances who also frequented the Saturday evenings were: Fernande Olivier ( Picasso's mistress ), Georges Braque, André Derain, the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin ( Apollinaire's mistress and an artist in her own right ), and Henri Rousseau.

Among the larger vendors, there was also the incentive to create their own protocol to " lock in " their customer base.

Among his first acts were the deposition of the orthodox patriarch Cyrus of Constantinople, in favour of John VI, a member of his own sect, and the summoning of a conciliabulum of Eastern bishops, which abolished the canons of the Sixth Ecumenical Council.

Among the buildings he has designed are Ringsted Town Hall, Mødrehjælpen ( a social institution for women ) in Copenhagen Ø and his own house in Rungsted Kyst Hørsholm, north of Copenhagen ( 1938 ).

Among the factors distracting Wilson and deflecting the project was The Beach Boys ' corporate decision at this time to file a lawsuit against Capitol Records for unpaid royalties and start their own label, Brother Records.

Among those who responded were some of the Argonauts, Oeneus ' own son Meleager, and, remarkably for the Hunt's eventual success, one woman — the huntress Atalanta, the " indomitable ", who had been suckled by Artemis as a she-bear and raised as a huntress, a proxy for Artemis herself ( Kerenyi ; Ruck and Staples ).

Among the many stories about the late Speaker Rayburn is one from Rep. Dwyer, R-6th Dist..

Among the many problems in the taxing of personal property, and of movable tangible property in particular, two are significant: ( 1 ) situs, ( 2 ) fair and equitable assessment of value.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

Among the many such methods, some are:

Among the many volumes of the holy Rabbi Yitzchak Luria ( known as the " Ari "), most of which come downfrom the pen of his primary disciple, Rabbi Chaim Vital, are profound insights explaining issues related to reincarnation.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.

Among these, Pindar was held by many ancient critics to be pre-eminent, but some gave precedence to Alcaeus instead.

Among his many philanthropic efforts, the establishment of public libraries throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking countries was especially prominent.

Among other things, this feature allows a single iterative statement to process arbitrarily many elements of an array.

Among the more renowned of such works are the writings of Primo Levi, one of many personal accounts of the Shoah.

Among his compositions written for the chapels needs were two complete sets of vespers, many graduals, offertories, and four orchestral masses.

Among these have been many writers, artists and musicians ; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Walter, and Right Livelihood Award winner Ibrahim Abouleish.

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

Among many achievements, Henry institutionalized common law by creating a unified system of law " common " to the country through incorporating and elevating local custom to the national, ending local control and peculiarities, eliminating arbitrary remedies and reinstating a jury system – citizens sworn on oath to investigate reliable criminal accusations and civil claims.

Among the most successful composers of his time, Gluck spawned many emulators, one of whom was Antonio Salieri.

Among the largest businesses located in Cambridge was the firm of Carter's Ink Company, whose neon sign long adorned the Charles River and which was for many years the largest manufacturer of ink in the world.

Among the many petty local republics that were formed during the first year of the Greek Revolution, prior to the creation of a unified Provisional Government at the First National Assembly at Epidaurus, were:

Among the many awards he received over the years, he was named Professor Emeritus in 1984.

Among many honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, nine Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards, was inducted into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).

Among the many transmitted editions of the Tao Te Ching text, the three primary ones are named after early commentaries.

Among the many problems he faced was repelling Sikh encroachment on the Pashtun areas east of the Khyber Pass.

Among many interesting entries are those for the elephant and the murex snail, the much sought-after source of Tyrian purple dye.