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Because of this, it would appear inevitable that an increasing percentage of strategic missiles will seek self-protection in mobility -- at least until missile defenses are perfected which have an exceedingly high kill probability.
Enrichment involves increasing the percentage of U-235 and is usually done by means of gaseous diffusion or gas centrifuge.
Despite acquiring an increasing percentage of the popular vote — 34 % overall in 2006 — opposition parties gained small numbers of seats in the general elections of 1984 ( 2 seats of 79 ), 1988 ( 1 seat of 81 ), 1991 ( 4 seats of 81 ), 1997 ( 2 seats of 83 ) and 2001 ( 2 seats of 84 ).
Like most tournaments, the sponsoring casino takes an entry fee ( a percentage between 6 % and 10 %, depending on the buy-in ) and distributes the rest, hence the prize money increasing with more players.
The initial phase was the more active, including an increase in the percentage of urban dwellers in Stockholm – a pattern comparable to increasing urban populations in other European capital and port cities – as well as the foundation of a number of small new towns.
Microsatellites developed for particular species can often be applied to closely related species, but the percentage of loci that successfully amplify may decrease with increasing genetic distance.
A variable-rate instrument, such as many consumer mortgages, will reflect the standard rate for deferred payment set by the central bank prime rate, increasing it by some fixed percentage.
However, it no longer applies, since the central bank started increasing the rates by 0. 25 percentage points at a time.
Apprentices receive a wage negotiated in collective agreements ranging between 30 % and 80 % of the wage of a qualified worker ; the percentage increasing over the apprenticeship period.
Furthermore the demographic development is characterized by three trends: increasing longevity, decreasing birth rates and an increasing percentage of population from foreign extraction.
In fact, there is evidence that the percentage of total government expenditures spent on healthcare has been increasing, in part due to a higher percentage of older Canadians.
At one time, nearly all arable land was devoted to sugarcane, but the percentage devoted to ground crops for local consumption has been increasing.
The decrease in state employment caused a demographics shift, as an increasing percentage of the population became employed in New York City.
However, an increasing percentage of the world ’ s newsprint is made with recycled fibers.
Although the market share of financial holding companies among the 25 largest securities firms had increased by 5. 7 percentage points from that held in 1999 before the GLBA became effective, all of the increase came from foreign banks increasing their U. S. securities operations.
It exhibits increasing returns to scale if a percentage change in inputs results in greater percentage change in output ( an elasticity greater than 1 ).
The increasing sophistication of weaponry, and the tactics employed against American forces to deliberately confuse them has meant that while overall casualties have fallen for American soldiers in the late 20th and 21st centuries, the overall percentage deaths due to friendly fire in American actions have risen dramatically.
As with other businesses, a percentage of the profits are normally reinvested into the business in the hopes of increasing production, and hence increase future profits.
Over two thirds of Carinthia is covered by forest and the percentage is still increasing.
Xtreme Waste has recycled an increasing volume and percentage of waste every year, and as of 2010, it diverts nearly three-quarters of the town's waste from reaching the landfill.
Following an extensive public hearing process organised by the CRTC, the MAPL system, created by Stan Klees ( co-creator of the Juno Award ), was adopted in 1971 to define and identify Canadian content in pieces of music for the purposes of increasing exposure of Canadian music on Canadian radio through content regulations governing a percentage ( 25 %) of airplay to be devoted to Canadian music.

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The rear ranks held their spears underarm, and raised their shields upwards at increasing angles.
Chamberlain closed ranks with Gladstone to profit from the returned Liberal leader's increasing popularity.
For the increasing ranks of recruits, infantry training was carried out at a CIA-run base ( code-named JMTrax ) near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre on the Pacific coast of Guatemala.
Titles translated in English as " prince " and " princess " were generally immediate or recent descendants of sovereigns, with increasing distance at birth from an ancestral sovereign in succeeding generations resulting in degradations of the particular grade of prince or princess and finally degradation of posterity's ranks as a whole below that of prince and princess.
Word of Arnold's approach resulted in further militia enlistments, increasing the ranks to 1, 200 or more.
The AFL — now led by William Green ( president, 1924 – 1952 ) — faced increasing dissension within its ranks, led by John L. Lewis of the coal miners.
Often, small forces would engage in rapes, looting and general violence beyond what higher ranks ordered, increasing negative sanctions in undesirable locations.
He was the main leader of the Ottoman Empire in both Balkan Wars and World War I. Pasha is a title that changed with his military ranks ; through his career he was known by increasing titles, including Enver Efendi (), Enver Bey (), and finally Enver Pasha, which is what Ottoman military officers were called after they were promoted to the rank of Mirliva.
For years, the funding for scientific research at BUAA has been increasing at an annual rate of over 20 %, which ranks among the best in all the universities in China in terms of its achievements, funding and academic standing.
This higher-risk, possibly high-outcome, " personal-finances-as-a-game " attitude runs counter to the traditional mores of rising slowly through the ranks of a company through discipline and hard work, but may have increasing validity in an age of globalization.
Pavlov links Ivan ’ s turn against the higher echelons of oprichniki to the increasing number of the lower-born among their ranks.
The architectural linking of the windows from one floor to the next, and the increasing arch of their windowheads, provide an upward spring to the horizontals formed by ranks of windows.
The ranks for Indian Coast Guard officers in order of increasing seniority are:
Fear of socialism became widespread among the ranks of the establishment, and as the question of tariffs was settled, there was increasing pressure on the non-Labor parliamentary forces to unite in opposition to Labor.
Due to its harsh anti-berlusconismo, IdV is however popular especially among left-wing voters, a fact that was highlighted also by the increasing number of communists in party ranks.
During the 18th century the increasing sophistication of military life lead to separate housing for different ranks ( officers had always had larger rooms ) and married quarters, and the provision of specialized buildings such as dining rooms and cook houses, bath houses, mess rooms, schools, hospitals, armouries, gymnasia, riding schools and stables.
Thus, while Iraq's body politic crumbled under immense political and economic pressure throughout the monarchic period, the military gained increasing power and influence ; moreover, because the officers in the new army were by necessity Sunnis who had served under the Ottomans, while the lower ranks were predominantly filled by Shia tribal elements, Sunni dominance in the military was preserved.
In the midst of increasing sectarian strife in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which led to the Lebanese Civil War, however, Lebanon's Armenian community began to close ranks, and in 1972, the Hunchakian Party ran a joint ticket with the Dashnaks.
Of recent times the church has been stable with increasing diversity of ethnic origins represented in its membership and ministerial ranks.
The rear ranks held their spears underarm, and raised shields upwards at increasing angles.
Long was a moderate within the protectionist ranks and became the go-between between the protectionists and the free-traders, increasing his prominence and popularity within the party.
The 2009 announcement that rugby sevens would be added to the 2016 Olympic games has led to an increased emphasis in the collegiate ranks on the sevens game and increasing interest from TV and other media.
No doubt the increasing power of the Ui Briuin was responsible for this dramatic swelling of the ranks, as tribes and dynasties newly coming under Ui Briuin sway were furnished with ancestries that would link them genealogically to their overlords.

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