The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.

In textiles, as elsewhere, a major part of the solution lies in greater efficiency and higher productivity.

We have developed an ingenious method of interlocking these so that you can make the major part of your house in your own workshop, panel by panel, according to plan.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Hurricanes are quite common in the state, especially in the southern part, and major hurricanes occasionally strike the coast which can be very destructive.

The Berber peoples of the Maghreb in the early Middle Ages could be roughly classified into three major groups-the Zenata across the north, the Masmuda concentrated in central Morocco and the Sanhaja, clustered in two areas-the western part of the Sahara and the hills of the eastern Maghreb.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

Within this sonata form, the first group of the exposition starts out with a fugue before modulating to C major for the second part of the exposition.

The major cities are the capital Sarajevo, Banja Luka in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Bijeljina and Tuzla in the northeast, Zenica and Doboj in the central part of Bosnia and Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

Buses play a major part in the tourism industry.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

Although the use of aircraft has for the most part always been used as a supplement to land or naval engagements, since their first major military use in World War I aircraft have increasingly taken on larger roles in warfare.

Yet another plan, the North-South Rail Link that would have connected North and South Stations ( the major passenger train stations in Boston ), was part of the original Big Dig but was ultimately dropped by the Dukakis administration as an impediment to acquiring federal funding for the project.

This migration was part of a series of major population movements in the European barbaricum ( the Roman term for regions outside their empire ).

Early in the history of the college, there had been some hesitancy on the part of other institutions to accept BJC credits at face value, but by the 1960s, BJU alumni were being accepted by most of the major graduate and professional schools in the United States.

The story of the men's claims was covered by many major news networks, including BBC, CNN, ABC News, and Fox News.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Coverage of major events has also been simulcast on BBC World News.

According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.

International short wave radio stations such as The Voice of America, BBC, and Radio Ceylon played a major part in bringing Western pop, folk, and rock music to the masses.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

The Queen Vic ( short for the Queen Victoria ) is the pub in EastEnders, the major soap on BBC One, while The Bull in the Radio 4 soap opera The Archers and the Woolpack in ITV's Emmerdale are also important meeting points.

Milligan's next major TV venture was the sketch comedy series The World of Beachcomber ( 1968 ), made in colour for BBC 2 ; however, it is believed all 19 episodes are now lost.

There are five major analogue networks-BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

The Commodore 64, BBC Microcomputer and later the Amstrad CPC range were major rivals to the Spectrum in the UK market during the early 1980s.

A major international television network is the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC which is perhaps most well known for its news agency BBC News.

In its Year Book 1931 the BBC published a major article about " The Use of Sound Effects ".

At the BBC, the late 2000s and early 2010s have seen a major resurgence in traditional-style sitcoms filmed in front of a studio audience and featuring a laughter track, such as Not Going Out, Miranda, Reggie Perrin, Big Top, Mrs Brown's Boys and In with the Flynns

After easing himself back into broadcasting as chairman of the radio panel game Twenty Questions, he began the second of his three major BBC radio series, Beyond Our Ken.

The lead single from the album, " Kayleigh ", received major promotion by EMI and gained heavy rotation on BBC Radio 1 and Independent Local Radio stations as well as television appearances, bringing the band to the attention of a much wider audience.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

* Herod Agrippa is a major figure in Robert Graves ' novel Claudius the God, as well as the BBC television adaptation I, Claudius, ( wherein he was portrayed by James Faulkner ).

* Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 9, shortwave 1 ( 1997 ) Satellite radio services carrying major foreign stations ( BBC, CNN etc.

* He is a major character in Mike Walker's BBC Radio 4 series of plays Plantagenet and is played by Stephen Hogan.

McGann's first major dramatic role was the infamous British deserter and criminal Percy Toplis in the 1986 BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer.

In the case of major broadcasters such as the BBC World Service or Radio Australia, there is also an educational outreach.