The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Even though it's widely used with many small variations, many big and influential groups still use different systems.

Equally memorable and influential on Walt Whitman is Emerson's idea that " a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Contemporary Jainism is a small but influential religious minority with as many as 6 million followers in India and growing immigrant communities in North America, Western Europe, the Far East, Australia and elsewhere.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

Prout ’ s hypothesis was proven inaccurate in many respects, but the abstract concepts of atomic mass and amount continue to play an influential role in chemistry, and the atomic mass unit continues to be the unit of choice for very small mass measurements.

Corporate oligarchy is a form of power, governmental or operational, where such power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals, sometimes from a small group of educational institutions, or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities, lobbyists that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.

In Ohio, a small but influential underground rock scene emerged, led by Devo in Akron and Kent and by Cleveland's The Electric Eels, Mirrors and Rocket from the Tombs.

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968 – 1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

Deutsch's very efficient and influential aerodynamic designs allowed DB race cars to reach impressive top speeds despite the small Panhard flat-twin engine.

The French were also interested in ensuring that the small but influential elite was sufficiently satisfied with the status quo to refrain from any anti-French sentiment.

# Immobilizing of nutrients and other chemicals within complex polysaccharide molecules affects their release and subsequent absorption from the small intestine, an effect influential on the glycemic index.

While many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are small fragments of Biblical, apocryphal, or sectarian manuscripts, some of the scrolls have come to be well known and influential to Second Temple Judaism.

Another festival, small yet influential, is FITA, held each December.

Nevertheless, the Doppers were symbolic of resistance to all things English in South Africa, and despite their small size and distinctiveness they were culturally sophisticated and disproportionately influential during and after the Great Trek.

The most influential of all was Edward FitzGerald ( 1809 – 83 ), who made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyám's rather small number of quatrains ( rubāʿiyāt ) in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Cáceres flourished during the Reconquista and the Discovery of America, as influential Spanish families and nobles built homes and small palaces there, and many members of families from Extremadura participated in voyages to America where they made their fortunes.

A few Roman tonsores became wealthy and influential, running shops that were favourite public locations of high society ; however, most were simple tradesmen, who owned small storefronts or worked in the streets for low prices.

* Directory ( political ), a small group of influential states that is said to ' direct ' the agenda

A small but influential group of social democrats associated with Maxim Gorky's newspaper Novaya Zhizn ( New Life ) refused to join either party.

Charles Fort's 1919 The Book of the Damned exposed to a small but influential group of readers to Fort's extensive references to unidentified objects.

Although she claimed that her father was chief of all the Northern Paiute ( and she was therefore often called the " Paiute Princess " by the press ), the Paiute had no centralized leadership and her father, though influential, was the leader of a small band.

It referred to movements led by members of the liberal intelligentsia, in some republics small and peripheral, in others broad-based and influential.

His " prophetic " views on religion, science, politics, and social issues became influential beyond his small group of followers.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

A number of small publishers in the 1990s changed the format and distribution of their comics to more closely resemble non-comics publishing.

He worked for a while in a small publishing house while attempting to sell his drawings to newspapers and other printed material with little success.

In 1996, Orchises Press, a small publishing house in Virginia, started the process to publish " Hapworth " in book form.

A manga artist ( mangaka in Japanese ) typically works with a few assistants in a small studio and is associated with a creative editor from a commercial publishing company.

He established the small publishing house Spring Ast LIX in 1997, whose publications include: Braes Woodland Diary-the First Ten Years by Ann Chapman.

He has been living in Kraków since 1997 where he runs the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation aimed at providing education to the small local Jewish community as well as local Gentiles, and where he set up Pardes Lauder, a Jewish religious publishing house which has so far published more than 20 books, including a prayer book and Haggada for Passover.

Anti-aliased rendering, combined with Adobe applications ability to zoom in to read small type, further combined with the now open PostScript Type 1 font format, provided the impetus for an explosion in font design, and desktop publishing of newspapers and magazines.

Seifert, Mikulášek, Skácel were all also barred from publishing ; their work was published as samizdat, small underground presses that hand-published much of the work of the underground, illegal authors.

The term " desktop publishing " is attributed to Aldus Corporation founder Paul Brainerd, who sought a marketing catch-phrase to describe the small size and relative affordability of this suite of products in contrast to the expensive commercial phototypesetting equipment of the day.

Throughout the 1990s alt. zines was really the only forum for zinesters to promote, talk, and discuss small publishing issues and tips.

Over the years, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has been awarded to emerging and established authors from both small independent and large publishing houses in Canada.

The Great Depression was a factor for most publishing houses and Little Brown was no exception ; they carefully released a small first printing.

* Mansfield Press, a small, independent publishing house located in Toronto's Little Italy.

Philtrum Press is a small publishing house run by Stephen King.

After transcribing other people's music for a small music publisher, Webb was signed to a songwriting contract with Jobete Music, the publishing arm of Motown Records.

He has produced a book of anarchist postage stamps " For after the Revolution " and created his own small publishing project Agraphia Press.

At the end of nine years the small project had become a gigantic publishing venture ; Emanuel Haldeman-Julius became known as " the Henry Ford of literature ".

The St. Bernard Voice, a local paper, began publishing in the late 19th century, and still is produced from a small building on Mehle Street, near the Mississippi river in what was the original settlement.

This lack of expansion abilities, along with the small screen size and Macintosh's popularity in the burgeoning field of desktop publishing led to such oddities as video displays which connected through the SCSI port by users seeking to connect a larger full-or dual-page display to their Mac.

In 1977, Zündel founded a small press publishing house called Samisdat Publishers which issued such pamphlets as " The Hitler We Loved and Why " and " Did Six Million Really Die?

Since this time, enthusiasts such as G. Maurice Morris and MW Models have taken to publishing their own model plans, ranging from small models up to large and complex machines.

Both Noon and small publishing house Ringpull's debut novel, it went on to win the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award and was later listed in The Best Novels of the Nineties.

His publishing legacy includes the distinctions of inventing italic type, establishing the modern use of the semicolon, developing the modern appearance of the comma, and introducing inexpensive books in small formats bound in vellum that were read much like modern paperbacks.

Emin and Childish were a couple until 1987 during which time she was the administrator for his small press Hangman Books which specialized in publishing Childish's confessional poetry.