These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

Economy class fares and charter flights have attracted almost all new passengers to the airlines.

For some compulsive reason which would have fascinated Dr. Freud, Communists of all shapes and sizes almost invariably impute to others the very motives which they harbor themselves.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

The doctor's wits had not left him, however, for all his sixty-eight years, and the wails were almost immediately lost in the sound of water rushing out from the showerhead.

Some offices have very broad responsibilities, touching on almost all aspects of a university's instructional program.

The lyric beauties of Schubert's Trout Quintet -- its elemental rhythms and infectious melodies -- make it a source of pure pleasure for almost all music listeners.

He has announced results on Hokan, Penutian, Uto-Aztecan, and almost all other American families and phyla, and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; ;

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

But it has achieved a cross-section of students from almost all the states, and two-thirds of its undergraduates come from outside New England.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may be a profession ) will be called upon to use some of the skills developed and the competence obtained.

I discovered in the course of a visit there that almost all the pupils were Negroes.

It was, indeed, all here -- almost a century.

Mr. Skyros did not at all like the look on Angelo's regular-featured, almost girlishly good-looking face -- or indeed anything about Angelo.

`` He almost brought it back all the way ''.

So in the name of justice the magistrate cleared the court of all except officials to allow the captain to elaborate for almost an hour.

`` Her basic hull form ( a teardrop ) and her nuclear power plant will be used for almost all new submarines, including the potent Polaris missile submarines '', the statement went on.

But almost all the schools were primary.

Houses generally faced the south, and plaza areas were almost always girt with edifices of sealed-off rooms or high walls.

By October 1993, Armenian forces succeeded in occupying almost all of former NKAO, Lachin and large areas in southwestern Azerbaijan.

Most have been repealed, have been declared unconstitutional, or are simply unenforced ; though prohibitions on the sale of alcoholic beverages or prohibitions of almost all commerce on Sundays are still enforced in many areas.

Over the last 40 years biochemistry has become so successful at explaining living processes that now almost all areas of the life sciences from botany to medicine are engaged in biochemical research.

They prefer areas in the nesting season that have access to both upland and wetland areas, though they feed almost entirely in dry areas.

The data showed noncompliance climbed to, or almost 15 % of all Bt corn grown, suggesting in some areas ample acreage does not exist to support pests without resistance to mate with any resistant pests that survived the Bt corn.

In common law legal systems ( connotation 2 ), the common law ( connotation 1 ) is crucial to understanding almost all important areas of law.

Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America ( except Chile ) in densely forested areas near bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds and marshes, as well as flooded savannah and along rivers in tropical forest.

This allele occurs almost exclusively in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including South Asian Indians.

In both zones, Chagas occurs almost exclusively in rural areas, where triatomines breed and feed on the over 150 species from 24 families of domestic and wild mammals, as well as humans, that are the natural reservoirs of T. cruzi.

By the end of 1990 almost 15 million homes had been included in franchised areas, but only 828, 000 of these had been passed by broadband cable and only 149, 000 were actually subscribing.

Official observers from the Carter Center reported that returns from almost 2, 000 polling stations in areas where support for Tshisekedi was strong had been lost and not included in the official results.

A major change from previous versions was the inclusion of a clinical significance criterion to almost half of all the categories, which required symptoms cause " clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning ".

These areas are often man-made reservoirs or drainages that have been almost entirely monotypic.

Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly almost imperceptible and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over large areas, depending on their depth.

others such as Hammerbrook are nowadays purely commercial areas with almost no residential population.

Some areas use brick almost exclusively, and quarried stone has long provided walling.

In the rural areas of the alluvial plain and in the lower Diyala region, settlement almost invariably clusters near the rivers, streams, and irrigation canals.

In the arid areas of Iraq to the west and south, cities and large towns are almost invariably situated on watercourses, usually on the major rivers or their larger tributaries.

Throughout the twentieth century, human exploitation, shifting agriculture, forest fires, and uncontrolled grazing denuded large areas of Iraq ’ s natural forests, which in 2005 were almost exclusively confined to the northeastern highlands.

The most densely populated areas are the Po Valley ( that accounts for almost a half of the national population ) and the metropolitan areas of Rome and Naples, while vast regions such as the Alps and Appennines highlands, the plateaus of Basilicata and the island of Sardinia are very sparsely populated.