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prime and interest
The adherence of many in the population to the Indian background in their pedigree, and emphasis upon the fact that their ancestors had never been slaves, becomes of prime interest in determining how far these elements promote the self-image of the intermediate status of the group in society.
In 1957, however, the new prime minister, Ibrahim Nasir, called for a review of the agreement in the interest of shortening the lease and increasing the annual payment.
Keating's tenure as treasurer and prime minister is often criticised for high interest rates and the 1990s recession-the so-called " recession we had to have ".
This turning point in the evolution of the prime ministership came with the death of Anne in 1714 and the accession of George I. George spoke no English, spent much of his time at his home in Hanover, and had neither knowledge of nor interest in the details of English government.
The Nielsen ratings system is explicitly designed for the optimum measurement of audience viewership by dayparts with prime time being of most interest.
The US Federal Reserve cuts the prime interest rate by half a percent to three percent.
The Mekong River, which both sides have an interest in making a " river of true peace and friendship " — as their respective prime ministers called for in 1976 — also provides a north – south artery during the rainy season.
Ultimately, the Salt Lake City police signaled that their prime person of interest was Richard Ricci, being held in custody for unrelated reasons.
Bobby's Girl was reworked as a potential prime time series called Suzy's in Love, but attracted no serious interest.
Particularly in the early stages, a prime motivating factor for the conquistadores was their interest in seizing great quantities of precious metals, such as gold and silver.
Constantine proposed the appointment of any other person of the prime minister's choosing as defence minister because, as the king argued, there was a conflict of interest: the prime minister's son was allegedly involved in the scandal.
The interest rates on prime credits in the late 1970s and early 1980s were far higher than had been recorded – higher than previous US peaks since 1800, than British peaks since 1700, or than Dutch peaks since 1600 ; " since modern capital markets came into existence, there have never been such high long-term rates " as in this period.
After unsuccessful attempts to interest the authorities in Ireland and revolutionary France, he started trying to persuade the prime minister, William Pitt, to revive an earlier abandoned scheme for a National Penitentiary in England, this time to be built as a Panopticon.
Demand loans are short term loans that are atypical in that they do not have fixed dates for repayment and carry a floating interest rate which varies according to the prime rate.
Sneh reported that he immediately conveyed the substance of their meeting to the prime minister's office, but was told that the prime minister had no interest in the matter.
In vehicles such as tractors and trucks, the tachometer often has other markings, usually a green arc showing the speed range in which the engine produces maximum torque, which is of prime interest to operators of such vehicles.
Emery had a prime interest in the nature of work and in particular in how people organised
The statistics of the zero distributions are of interest because of their connection to problems like the Generalized Riemann hypothesis, distribution of prime numbers, etc.
Corporatisation of public services as a means to permit government-owned public utilities to operate more along the lines of private sector business was an approach that was beginning to gather interest at the time from several governments-the US and UK governments under Reagan and Thatcher being prime movers.
However it is of prime interest to investment bankers, stock analysts and other professions such as engineers, environmental scientists, and conservationists because of the far-reaching impact that extractive industries have on society, the economy, and the environment.
Economists of the Austrian School, notably Ludwig von Mises, have linked these fluctuations in business cycles to the creation of central banking and its monopolized control of fiat money and prime interest rates.
For a businessman who has the profit motive as the prime interest, it is a losing proposition to offer below or above market wages to workers.

prime and apart
These tests use, apart from the tested number n, some other numbers a which are chosen at random from some sample space ; the usual randomized primality tests never report a prime number as composite, but it is possible for a composite number to be reported as prime.
Four other Hanna-Barbera series ( originally unrelated to The Banana Splits, apart from having been produced by the same studio ) were folded into the syndicated series as well: Atom Ant ( 26 half-hours, also featuring Precious Pupp and the aforementioned Hillbilly Bears ), Secret Squirrel ( 26 half-hours, also featuring Squiddly Diddly and Winsome Witch ), The Adventures of Gulliver ( 17 half-hours ), as well as The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 20 half-hours, originally seen in prime time and here introduced as The Adventures Of Huck Finn ) which combined live action with animation.
After his assassination, the government he created fell apart and Sulayman stepped down as prime minister.
The coalition fell apart before the end of its term after the 1957 federal elections and, as of 2010, Wilhelm Hoegner is still the last non-CSU prime minister of Bavaria.
The concrete-dominated Fascist architectural style detracted significantly from the islands ' picturesque scenery ( and also reminded the inhabitants of Italian rule ), and has consequently been largely demolished or remodeled, apart from the famous example of the Leros town of Lakki, which remains a prime example of the architecture.
Margaret smuggled drugs in the prime minister's luggage, made scantily clad appearances at Studio 54, and tore apart a tapestry in the prime minister's official residence in Ottawa because it celebrated " reason over passion ".
Even apart from scaling and shifting, there are infinitely many cases, e. g. by considering rational numbers of which the denominators are powers of a given prime number.
Carmichael's theorem says that every Fibonacci number, apart from the exceptions listed above, has at least one primitive prime divisor.
Following the January 2006 legislative elections, won by Hamas, the Quartet ( apart from Russia ) cut all funds to the Palestinian Authority led by prime minister Ismail Haniyah ( Hamas ).
The last Rana prime minister was dismissed in October 1951 when the Rana-Congress coalition cabinet ( in which Koirala served for nine months as the Home minister ) broke apart.
With the abandonment of the direct for prime minister, the Likud was gaining support while sectarian parties were falling apart.
On 11 May 2012, Croatian prime minister Zoran Milanović announced further expansion of rights for same-sex relationships with the equivalent rights and responsibilities to those of marriage, apart from adoption.
Although until his death in 1935 Piłsudski played a preponderant role in Poland's government, his formal offices — apart from two stints as prime minister in 1926-28 and 1930 — were for the most part limited to those of minister of defense and inspector-general of the armed forces.
On 11 May 2012, Croatian prime minister Zoran Milanović announced further expansion of rights for same-sex relationships with the equivalent rights and responsibilities to those of marriage, apart from adoption.
The locations were a mile or two apart ( 2 – 3 km ), close to concentrations of office workers without paying prime prices for land.
Even apart from scaling and shifting, there are infinitely many cases, e. g. by considering rational numbers of which the denominators are powers of a given prime number.
Two more short-serving Conservatives, Mackenzie Bowell and Charles Tupper, served out the end of the Conservative government, until the election in 1896 when the coalition of French and English Canadians fell apart and Laurier became the second Liberal prime minister of Canada.

prime and from
He and the prime minister would be back from the window, seated at Mahzeer's desk ; ;
A prime research tool for film historians, the catalog consists of entries on more than 50, 000 films, from 1893 to the mid-1970s, documenting casts, crews, synopses and production notes.
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.
Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.
Today the choice is made in the name of the monarch by the prime minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad-hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.
In addition, the Chinese Communists were able to fill the political vacuum left in Manchuria after Soviet forces withdrew from the area and thus gained China's prime industrial base.
RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.
For example, the Riemann hypothesis is a conjecture from number theory that ( amongst other things ) makes predictions about the distribution of prime numbers.
The unmoved movers inspiring the planetary spheres are no different in kind from the prime mover, they merely suffer a dependency of relation to the prime mover.
Furthermore, if b < sub > 1 </ sub > and b < sub > 2 </ sub > are both coprime with a, then so is their product b < sub > 1 </ sub > b < sub > 2 </ sub > ( modulo a it is a product of invertible elements, and therefore invertible ); this also follows from the first point by Euclid's lemma, which states that if a prime number p divides a product bc, then p divides at least one of the factors b, c.
Because of this, radiosity is a prime component of leading real-time rendering methods, and has been used from beginning-to-end to create a large number of well-known recent feature-length animated 3D-cartoon films.
Barred from Major League Baseball during his prime, Veeck's signing of the aging star in 1948 was viewed by many as another publicity stunt.
These vehicles typically sacrifice some depth of capability from civilian models in order to gain greater speed and independence from prime movers.
Coronation Street had little competition within its prime time slot, and certain critics suggested that the programme had grown complacent, moving away from socially viable storylines and again presenting a dated view of working-class life.
Male chauvinism was found to represent an attempt to ward off anxiety and shame arising from one or more of four prime sources: unresolved infantile strivings and regressive wishes, hostile envy of women, oedipal anxiety, and power and dependency conflicts related to masculine self-esteem.
It follows from this theorem that all Carmichael numbers are odd, since any even composite number that is square-free ( and hence has only one prime factor of two ) will have at least one odd prime factor, and thus results in an even dividing an odd, a contradiction.
Gordie Howe, a right-winger from Floral, Saskatchewan, only scored seven goals and 15 assists in his first season and would not reach his prime for a few more years.
Under the guise of idealism giving way to realism, German nationalism rapidly shifted from its liberal and democratic character in 1848 to Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck's authoritarian Realpolitik.
While most of these migrations had an economic background, Germany has also been a prime destination for refugees from many developing countries, in part because its constitution long had a clause giving a ' right ' to political asylum, but restrictions over the years have since made it less attractive.
In its second term, the red green coalition lost several very important state elections, for example in Lower Saxony where Schröder was the prime minister from 1990 to 1998.

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