Some of the earliest visitors to the area that became Cottage City and later Oak Bluffs were Methodists, who gathered in the oak grove each summer for for multi-day religious " camp meetings " held under large tents and in the open air.

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

Primogeniture has the effect of keeping large estates united and thus perpetuating an elite.

However it was the Franks who came to dominate Western and Central Europe after the fall of Rome, and they generally fielded armies composed of large masses of infantry, with an infantry elite, the comitatus, which often rode to battle on horseback rather than marching on foot.

There also exists a small Nepali population, large numbers of Arabs, Filipinos and an economic elite of Sinhalese from Sri Lanka.

The Franco-Mauritian elite controls nearly all of the large sugar estates and is active in business and banking.

The egalitarian Mayan society of pre-royal centuries gradually gave way to a society controlled by a wealthy elite that began building large ceremonial temples and complexes.

The house, located at the epicenter of India's ruling Mughal elite, is so large that in 2001 it housed eight different families.

In the 16th century, the large zweihander was used by the elite German mercenaries known as doppelsoldners.

She brings with her a large dowry and an elite Gothic force of 5, 000 soldiers.

At the time China faced the Qiang tribes in the northwest, and thus Dong Zhuo controlled a large army with elite training.

Sharing the language and culture of the Shang, the early Zhou rulers, through conquest and colonization, established a large imperial territory wherein states as far as Shandong acknowledged Zhou rulership and took part in elite culture.

In 1658 Giuseppe Branciforti, Prince of Butera and former Viceroy of Sicily, built a large villa and established the region as the preferred location for villeggiatura by Palermitan elite.

Most of the city's large businesses, which had previously been state owned, were fought over by members of the former party elite, the emerging nouveau riche, and fast growing criminal syndicates.

Media production was once limited to an elite group of individuals who spent a large portion of their time taking courses and specializing in the art.

The Librarian is a member of a small elite group of senior librarians who have the knowledge and ability to travel through L-space, an extradimensional space that connects all libraries and other large accumulations of books.

Developed over many years, it had a large enclosed square, within which were four platform mounds, used for ceremonial purposes and elite residential ; another square, and a larger conical mound used for burials.

After many trips in Podolia and Volhynia as a Baal Shem, Besht, considering his following large enough and his authority established, decided ( about 1740 ) to expound his teachings in the shtetl of Medzhybizh and people, mostly from the spiritual elite, came to listen to him.

* Barrow's Boys-Fergus Fleming ( 1998 ) " For 30 years beginning 1816, the British Admiralty's John Barrow and his elite team charted large areas of the Arctic, discovered the North Magnetic Pole, were the first to see volcanoes in the Antarctic, crossed the Sahara to find Timbuktu and the mouth of the Niger-John Ross, John Franklin, William Edward Parry and others.

Though admitting a mistake had been made, Bradley placed the blame on General Montgomery for moving the Commonwealth troops too slowly, though the latter were in direct contact with a large number of SS Panzer, Fallschirmjaeger, and other elite German forces.

In general, the elite burials at Altun Ha during the Late Classic can be characterized by large amounts of jade.

Later cultures within the area made use of large " above ground burial chambers for the social elite ... known as " chullpas ".

At the same time, some among the Anglophone business elite were advocating for a union of Upper and Lower Canada to ensure competitiveness on a national scale with the increasingly large and powerful economy of the United States ( who, in part, inspired the rebels by their own successful war of independence ).

They might have been from an elite family that had lost its fortune, or from a large family with children to spare.

The elite of society were accustomed to hanging large tapestries on the walls of their homes, a tradition from the Middle Ages.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

Spencer wrote that in production the advantages of the superior individual is comparatively minor, and thus acceptable, yet the benefit that dominance provides those who control a large segment of production might be hazardous to competition.

In some competitions, boards are pre-dealt prior to the competition, especially if the same hands are to be played at many locations ( for example in a large national or international tournament ).

Particularly in team competition there can be a large number of bowls on the green towards the conclusion of the end, and this gives rise to complex tactics.

As such, males have large testicles for sperm competition.

Perfect competition describes a market structure such that no participants are large enough to have the market power to set the price of a homogeneous product.

In microeconomics, it applies to price and output determination for a market with perfect competition, which includes the condition of no buyers or sellers large enough to have price-setting power.

Most non-dinosaurian archosaurs, most therapsids, and most of the large amphibians were eliminated, leaving dinosaurs with little terrestrial competition.

Two prominent Canadian authors ( both very hostile to the " Chicago School " philosophy ) argue that government at times has to intervene to ensure competition in large and important industries.

The shape of the Earth is to a large extent the result of its rotation, which causes its equatorial bulge, and the competition of geological processes such as the collision of plates and of volcanism, resisted by the Earth's gravity field.

Germany became Europe's leading steel-producing nation in the 1890s, thanks in large part to the protection from American and British competition afforded by tariffs and cartels.

In the 1970s the People Republic of China began large radical economic reforms, which forced the country from a zero competition nation to one of the most capitalistic in the world.

Textbook examples of industries with market structures similar to monopolistic competition include restaurants, cereal, clothing, shoes, and service industries in large cities.

The Barrayarans, with their single wormhole to defend and broadly habitable planet, both need and can afford a militaristic society with a certain amount of internal competition as large families spread out into newly terraformed regions.

In economic theory, perfect competition describes markets such that no participants are large enough to have the market power to set the price of a homogeneous product.

Each new form, also, as soon as it has been improved, will be able to spread over the open and continuous area, and will thus come into competition with many other forms ... the new forms produced on large areas, which have already been victorious over many competitors, will be those that will spread most widely, and will give rise to the greatest number of new varieties and species.

American television in the 2000s saw the sharp increase in popularity of reality television, with numerous competition shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor and The Apprentice attracting large audiences, as well as documentary or narrative style shows such as Big Brother, The Hills, The Real Housewives, Cheaters, among many others.

The TV show Expedition Robinson, created by TV producer Charlie Parsons, which first aired in 1997 in Sweden ( and was later produced in a large number of other countries as Survivor ), added to the Nummer 28 / Real World template the idea of competition and elimination, in which cast members / contestants battled against each other and were removed from the show until only one winner remained.

The movie removed most of the reality-TV element of the book: its competition now took place entirely within a large TV studio, and more closely resembled an athletic competition ( though a deadly one ).

With competition from the railways having taken a large share of traffic in the second half of the 19th century, improvements in roads and vehicle technology in the early part of the 20th century meant that the lorry was also becoming a threat to the canals.

The increase in competition for crews on armed merchant vessels and privateers was due, in a large part, because of the chance for a considerable payoff.

Germany and the Lowlands had large flourishing towns that grew in comparative peace, in trade and competition with each other, or united for mutual weal, as in the Hanseatic League.