Few would dispute the verdict of James D. Forbes, an editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " His scientific glory is different in kind from that of Young and Fresnel ; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression, will always occupy a foremost rank in the intellectual history of the age.

Few paleoanthropologists have explicitly evaluated AAH in scientific journals, and those that have reviewed the theory have been critical.

Few species were originally considered to feed directly on seagrass leaves ( partly because of their low nutritional content ), but scientific reviews and improved working methods have shown that seagrass herbivory is a highly important link in the food chain, with hundreds of species feeding on seagrasses worldwide, including green turtles, dugongs, manatees, fish, geese, swans, sea urchins and crabs.

Few scientific studies had confirmed the level of danger TCDD posed and there were scant industrial regulations to be followed.

Few games exist for the earliest of programmable calculators ( including the Hewlett-Packard 9100A, one of the first scientific calculators ), including the long-popular Lunar Lander game often used as an early programming exercise.

Few well-controlled scientific studies have ever been published suggesting the possibility of pheromones in humans.

Few Caucasians live in Guyana and most are there visiting for scientific research in the savannahs or rain forest or visiting on Christian missionary campaigns.

Few commissions were formed though, such as the investigations for Kars and Alexandropol.

Few undersea craters have been discovered because of the difficulty of surveying the sea floor, the rapid rate of change of the ocean bottom, and the subduction of the ocean floor into the Earth's interior by processes of plate tectonics.

Sabata and If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, directed by Gianfranco Parolini introduces into similar betrayal environments a kind of hero molded on the Mortimer character from For a Few Dollars More, only without any vengeance motive and with more outrageous trick weapons.

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

Few of these houses were used for single-family occupancy, however, and many had been converted into low-cost apartments.

Few rivers flow into it from the poorly drained region south of the river and much of this area near the Colombian border is swampland.

Few rivers discharge into the sea and their total contribution to the water exchange is within 1 %.

Few further attempts to bring counterfactual history into the world of academia were made until the 1991 publication of Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences by the Cambridge sociologist Geoffrey Hawthorn, who carefully explored three different counterfactual scenarios.

Few of these tapestries survived the French Revolution as hundreds were burnt to recover the gold thread that was often woven into them.

Hu Shih's work fell into disrepute in mainland China until a 1986 article, written by Ji Xianlin, " A Few Words for Hu Shi ", advocated acknowledging not only Hu Shih's mistakes, but also his contributions to modern Chinese literature.

Few of the " green rooms " cut into the woodlands in imitation of the cabinets de verdure of Versailles that are shown in the engraving actually got executed at Het Loo.

Few of these are directly meaningful to humans, being already transformed into computer manipulable forms.

Few will now grudge Tiberius, when his whole action as a ruler is taken into account, such a title as salutaris princeps, which seemed to a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation.

Few Iron Age coins were found here however, and it is believed that after being poured into the pellet moulds, the coins were taken to Leicester to be stamped.

Few of the nonmammalian synapsids outlasted the Triassic, although survivors persisted into the Cretaceous.

Few programs use only one of these techniques exclusively ; most combine portions of each into one synthetic system.

Few indeed were the early homes into which the cards, the spinning-wheel, the flag-wheel, the quill-wheel, the swifts, the warping-bars, and loom did not find an early entrance.

Few if any of the nostrums were actually patented ; chemical patents did not come into use in the United States until 1925.

Few of these have been assimilated into standard English ; but one that has is " holocaust " for burnt offering.

Few modern Arabic works have been translated into other languages.

In 1996, Colvin released her " platinum status " album A Few Small Repairs and in 1997 the success of her single " Sunny Came Home " " firmly catapulted her into the mainstream " after spending four weeks at the number one spot on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Few people ever go into the deep woods, and it has become a wildlife area.

Few decided upon joining the 1st Polish Army ( supported by communist puppet regime ), while majority were forcibly enlisted into the Soviet Red Army.

Born into a poor yeoman farming family, Will Russell Few achieved both social prominence and political power later in life.

Few writers have better understood their deepest selves.

Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.

Few business groups in recent years have come under heavier pressure to face these realities than real estate brokers and home builders.

Few artists have left a life work so eloquent of the period in which they lived.

Few who have painted the scenes around them have done so with so little bitterness.

Few of Salieri's compositions have survived from this early period.

Few Burkinabé have had formal education.

Few breatharians have submitted themselves to medical testing ; of those that have, including a hospital's observation of an Indian mystic surviving without food or water for 15 days, none have undergone peer review with results independently reproduced.

Few lawyers practice trial law or complex litigation and typically refer such cases to those who have the time, resources and experience to handle a complex trial and the commitment involved to complete a trial successfully.

Few details of Coleman's medical history have been made public.

Few new jobs have been generated in the formal sector, however, because domestic private sector and foreign investment has dropped and coveted public-sector jobs have been reserved mostly for the small Honduran middle-class with political or military connections.

" Few historians still hold it to have been the greatest issue of the period ..."

Few changes have been made to Ido since 1922.

Few others in the American study of religion have had this kind of impact on students of so many approaches and interests.

Few examples of the Khazar language exist today, mostly in names that have survived in historical sources.

Few Lombard buildings have survived.

Few studies have investigated the effects of morphine on motor abilities ; a high dose of morphine can impair finger tapping and the ability to maintain a low constant level of isometric force ( i. e. fine motor control is impaired ), though no studies have shown a correlation between morphine and gross motor abilities.

Few major biological types have emerged during the evolutionary history of life and most of them survive till today.