For example, in 1988 two-thirds of Bangladesh's 64 districts experienced extensive flood damage in the wake of unusually heavy rains that flooded the river systems.

For that reason, when Congress formally proposed the repeal of Prohibition on February 20, 1933 ( with the requisite two-thirds having voted in favor in each house ; 63 to 21 in the United States Senate and 289 to 121 in the United States House of Representatives ), they chose the other ratification method established by Article V, that being via state conventions.

For the 2010-2011 academic year, tuition costs at SUNY schools for an undergrad degree are less than two-thirds the cost of most other state run college institutions in the United States.

For example, the forest type with the largest concentration of big trees — volume class 7 -- originally comprised only 4 % of the forested portion of the Tongass, and over two-thirds of it has been logged.

For the amendment to be put into effect, at least two-thirds of members must formally adopt it.

For a second term, a two-thirds majority is required.

For Israel, which is two-thirds desert, water-saving technologies are of critical importance.

For example, he cut the salary of chief scout and former Leafs star Bob Davidson by almost two-thirds, forcing Davidson to resign.

For instance, with only two-thirds of the population voting in a Canadian election it is often easier and more cost effective to ensure that a hundred supporters show up on polling day than it is to convince a hundred voters to switch support from one party to the other.

For over three decades, both speakers were from West Tennessee ; this caused considerable resentment in the eastern two-thirds of the state.

For all other amendments, consent of Parliament and of at least two-thirds of the provincial legislatures representing at least 50 per cent of the population of Canada would be required.

For most people, it was a festive occasion, as about two-thirds of Boston residents supported the revolution.

For two-thirds of the samples, all traces were removed.

For instance, under its original ( 1819 ) constitution, Alabama required not only the consent of a court of chancery for a divorce ( and only " in cases provided for by law "), but equally that of two-thirds of both houses of the state legislature.

For the station and its assets, Disney paid $ 324 million, with RKO collecting approximately two-thirds and Fidelity the remainder.

For much of 2004, there had been speculation that if the opposition Christian Democratic Union were to win this election, they would gain a two-thirds majority in the national upper house, the Bundesrat, and force a new election for the Bundestag by making the country ungovernable for Gerhard Schröder's coalition.

For example, over two-thirds of seniors at-risk of hunger are caucasian.

For an SLR, the Pentaprism of all classical Zenits was undersize, with the viewfinder showing about two-thirds of the actual frame-size.

For a partial callosotomy, the anterior two-thirds of the corpus callosum are sectioned, and for a complete callosotomy, the posterior one-third is also sectioned.

For budget bills or supplementary appropriations bills, two-thirds of the members elected to each house are required to override the governor's veto of a bill or items or parts thereof.

" For instance he points out that Indonesia reduced its infant mortality and illiteracy rates by two-thirds after economists persuaded its leaders to borrow money in 1970.

For a treaty, a two-thirds vote of the Senate is required anyway ; thus, a filibuster could only delay passage.

For a twentieth century thinker committed to the same ideal, government was an essential tool to the same end ... odern liberalism is instead the logical and sociological outcome of classical liberalism.

For much of the twentieth century it nurtured a strong style of figurative surrealism, as in the works of Ivan Albright and Ed Paschke.

For this reason, work on unification, for much of the twentieth century, focused on understanding the three " quantum " forces: electromagnetism and the weak and strong forces.

For Canadian historian Charles Norris Cochrane ( 1889 – 1945 ), Thucydides ' fastidious devotion to observable phenomena, focus on cause and effect, and strict exclusion of other factors anticipates twentieth century scientific positivism.

For better or worse, the twentieth century.

For most of the twentieth century a " Strowger switch " or a " crossbar switch " referred to an individual piece of mechanical equipment making up part of an exchange.

" For Roy Porter, these often violent and invasive psychiatric interventions are indicative of both the well-intentioned desire of psychiatrists to find some medical means of alleviating the suffering of the thousands of patients in psychiatric hospitals in the twentieth century and also the relative lack of social power of those same patients to resist the increasingly radical and even reckless interventions of asylum doctors.

For much of the remainder of the twentieth century, Alexander's views remained predominant.

For the most part, they still take place in the American West and reveal the progression of the Old West mentality into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

" For much of the twentieth century, scientific study of the Hyades focused on determining its distance ; modeling its evolution ; confirming or rejecting candidate members ; and characterizing individual stars.

For most of the twentieth century, however, it was banned in most nations.

For a period of around two decades in the twentieth century ( 1968-1982 ), 1, 630 children from Réunion were relocated to France, particularly to Creuse.

For much of the twentieth century, the village grew slowly and steadily.

For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of Oregon as home to Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, the only commercial nuclear reactor in the state, which supplied electricity to Portland and its suburbs starting in March 1976.

For decades the major industry of the town was coal mining, but as mines closed throughout the latter half of the twentieth century the area has had ongoing economic difficulty.

For example, in the twentieth century, many land reforms emerged from a particular political ideology, such as communism or socialism.

For much of the twentieth century, streets were designed by engineers who were charged only with ensuring traffic flow and not with fostering the other functions of streets.

For most of the twentieth century the Swedish Navy focused on the threat of a full-scale invasion of Sweden via the Baltic and protecting commercial shipping.

For many years during the twentieth century, the water supply was rainwater harvested from several large bitumen sealed catchment areas behind Longreach Bay.

For much of the twentieth century, Cahir stood at an intersection of two busy national roadways: the Dublin to Cork N8, and the Limerick to Waterford N24.

For most of the twentieth century, Asakusa was the major entertainment district in Tokyo.

For example, in the early twentieth century the scientific consensus was that there existed an absolute frame of reference, given the name luminiferous ether.

For example, one clause declares that the “ date of departure homeward for foreign ships shall not be later than the twentieth day of the ninth month .” In addition to this, Iemitsu forbade alterations of the set price for raw silk and thus made sure that competition between trading cities was brought to a minimum.

For much of the twentieth century it was formally known as the Chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel Mahre, but is now usually referred to as the Chronicle of Zuqnin or the Zuqnin Chronicle.