And everywhere in evidence among the few remaining defensive units was that old handmaiden of disaster -- multiple command.

Astronomy is sometimes promoted as one of the few remaining sciences for which amateurs can still contribute useful data.

Armenia's record on discrimination toward the few remaining national minorities is generally good.

Ancient-There are few remaining examples with early art often favouring drawing over colour.

The only Ainu speakers remaining ( besides perhaps a few partial speakers ) live solely in Japan.

Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.

Not wishing to see Nicomedia or the other few remaining forts in Asia Minor suffer the same fate, Andronikos III sought to pay off the Ottomans with tribute — the Ottomans did not stop at this and seized Nicomedia as well in 1337.

His loss of the empire's few remaining territories in Anatolia made the Ottoman Turks posed to expand into Europe as did its lack of strength following his reign to prevent the formation of the Serbian Empire.

The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The site sprawls over an estimated ; among the few structures remaining today are a ruined bath and gymnasium complex and a recently uncovered stadium.

This line also came under severe pressure and, in turn, was forced back to their third-line of cavalry and the few battalions still remaining on the plain.

For decades the generations of few remaining sighthounds were regarded as hunting-suited, when showing enough attacking initiative for fox hunting.

Often the result of flash floods, such streams usually dry out within a few days as the remaining puddles seep into the sandy clay soil.

Agrippina was one of the few remaining descendants of Augustus, and her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Emperor Nero ) was one of the last males of the Imperial family.

Although most economies today are market economies or mixed economies ( which are partially planned ), fully planned economies exist in the remaining few countries of Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Myanmar.

Temple Bar and Grafton Street are two of the few remaining areas that were not affected by the wave of Georgian reconstruction and maintained their medieval character.

Sapir worked first with Betty Brown one of the language's few remaining speakers.

In the remaining few years of his life, Callistus II attempted to secure the status of the Church as it had existed at the end of the reign of Pope Gregory VII.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

However the Legislative Council had few powers at this time, with government remaining fully in the hands of the colonial authorities.

Conversion to Islam and the Albigensian Crusade ( 1209 – 1229 ) greatly reduced the remaining number of Gnostics throughout the Middle Ages, though a few Mandaean communities still exist.

About 70 – 80 % of the mass in a cluster is in the form of dark matter, with 10 – 30 % consisting of this heated gas and the remaining few percent of the matter in the form of galaxies.

Although quilted armour survived into the English Civil War in England as a poor man's cuirass, and as an item to be worn beneath the few remaining suits of full plate, it was increasingly replaced by the ' buff coat '- a leather jacket of rough suede.

At the end of the 1980s, however, Callejas had few remaining vehicles with which to pull the country out of the deep regionwide recession of the 1980s.

For a few illustrative examples: German speakers use " Wasserstoff " ( water substance ) for " hydrogen ", " Sauerstoff " ( acid substance ) for " oxygen " and " Stickstoff " ( smothering substance ) for " nitrogen ", while English and some romance languages use " sodium " for " natrium " and " potassium " for " kalium ", and the French, Italians, Greeks, Portuguese and Poles prefer " azote / azot / azoto " ( from roots meaning " no life ") for " nitrogen ".

The number of speakers grew rapidly over the next few decades, at first primarily in the Russian Empire and Central Europe, then in other parts of Europe, the Americas, China, and Japan.

Along with the UK national radio stations, Radio Scotland and the Gaelic language service BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is also broadcast, despite few speakers residing in the city.

The Eskimo languages have a few hundred speakers in Russia.

Another from 1701 indicates that there were still a few monoglot " Norse " speakers who were capable of speaking " no other thing ", and notes that there were more speakers of the language in Shetland than in Orkney.

In the federal ( bicameral ) kingdom of Belgium, there is a curious asymmetrical constellation serving as directly elected legislatures for three " territorial " regions — Flanders ( Dutch ), Brussels ( bilingual, certain peculiarities of competence, also the only region not comprising any of the 10 provinces ) and Wallonia ( French )— and three cultural communities — Flemish ( Dutch, competent in Flanders and for the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Brussels ), Francophone ( French, for Wallonia and for Francophones in Brussels ) and German ( for speakers of that language in a few designated municipalities in the east of the Walloon Region, living alongside Francophones but under two different regimes )

" A 2006 genetic study by the National Institute of Biologicals in India, testing a sample of men from 32 tribal and 45 caste groups, concluded that the Indians have acquired very few genes from Indo-European speakers.

Sorbian has also been spoken in the small Sorbian (“ Wendish ”) settlement of Serbin in Lee County, Texas, and it is possible that a few speakers still remain there.

While Western Yiddish has few remaining speakers, Eastern dialects remain in wide use.

Standard and formal Indonesian is used in books and newspapers and on television / radio news broadcasts ; however, few native Indonesian speakers use the formal language in their daily conversations.

Scottish Gaelic is the predominant spoken language, although in a few areas English speakers form a majority.

Recent alumni speakers include Joe Zucker, Sanford Biggers, Suzie Silver, and Joshua Mosley, to name a few.

It originated in New Orleans a few years after the city's founding in 1718 and was later adopted by English speakers.

A newer orthography was proposed around 1994 to better aid in language revival, since the former syllabary was targeted towards the few remaining native speakers of Sauk ; the more recent orthography was presented with native English speakers in mind ( Müller 1994 ).

Sauk has so few speakers that it is considered one of the many endangered languages native to North America.

Within a few years it had thousands of fluent speakers, primarily in eastern Europe.

Although " there was a true revival of te reo in the 1980s and early to-mid-1990s .... spurred on by the realisation of how few speakers were left, and by the relative abundance of older fluent speakers in both urban neighbourhoods and rural communities ", the language has been in a " renewed decline " since ( p. 439 ).

Most Algonquian languages are extremely endangered today, with few native speakers.

Boas ' student, the linguist Edward Sapir later noted that also English speakers pronounce sounds differently even when they think they are pronouncing the same sound, for example few English speakers realize that the sounds written with the letter < t > in the words " tick " and " stick " are phonetically different, the first being generally affricated and the other aspirated-a speaker of a language where this contrast is meaningful would instantly perceive them as different sounds and tend not to see them as different realizations of a single phoneme.