He initially came to Springfield an eager, idealistic, guitar-playing, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia-driving young man in the seventies, only to become cynical and disillusioned about his flock and ministry, mostly due to Ned Flanders, who constantly pesters him with religious non-emergencies such as " coveting his own wife " or sometimes non-religious non-emergencies such as thinking he " swallowed a toothpick.

The borough is mostly Christian at 85. 63 %, compared to the national average of 71. 74 %, with the next most significant grouping at 5. 84 % describing themselves as non-religious ( much lower than the national average of 14. 59 %).

Unlike the Muslim Bulgarians in the Central and Eastern Rhodopes, who usually have a Bulgarian identity and are mostly secular Muslims, non-religious or have even adopted Christianity, the ones living on the western fringes of the Rhodopes ( in the provinces of Pazardzhik and Blagoevgrad ) are strongly religious and have preserved the Muslim name system, customs and clothing.

While most private shortwave broadcasters in the United States are operated by religious groups or carry mostly religious programming, there have also been attempts at starting non-religious shortwave stations.

Often simple Chinese characters are mixed in with the Arabic script, mostly discussing non-religious matters, and therewith relatively little Arabic and Persian loans.

In 1980 WYAH, along with the rest of the Continental stations, began five to eight hours of general entertainment programming on Sunday afternoons, mostly extending the non-religious programming to syndicated theatrical shorts from Warner Bros., MGM, and Paramount and weekly " theaters " dedicated to Shirley Temple, Abbott & Costello, and Blondie and Dagwood movies.

The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

There are now active stage groups and training centers, mostly of modest proportions, in 12 countries.

The lateritic bauxites are found mostly in the countries of the tropics.

Not yet in force, but considered morally binding by signatories, the Amendment prohibits the export of hazardous waste from a list of developed ( mostly OECD ) countries to developing countries.

Today constitutional monarchies are mostly associated with Western European countries such as the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Sweden.

Cholera exists as a seasonal disease in many endemic countries, occurring annually mostly during rainy seasons.

In Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, dill is called shibint and is used mostly in fish dishes.

Modern computer technology was developed mostly in the English-speaking countries, so data formats, keyboard layouts, etc.

The rally could not be considered as it mostly used the roads of other European countries.

When the IFF was founded in 1986, the sport was played in mostly Nordic countries, Japan, and several parts of Europe.

Hayek, of course, had lived his early life under the mostly liberal, but mostly non-democratic, rule of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, and Hayek had seen democracy descend into illiberal tyranny in a host of Central and Eastern European countries.

While the Finnish political and intellectual elite mostly understood the term to refer more to the foreign policy problems of other countries, and meant mostly for domestic consumption in the speaker's own country, many ordinary Finns considered the term highly offensive.

There are also a large graffiti influences in Southeast Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture, such as Malaysia, where graffiti has long been a common sight in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur.

Afrique Numero Un also has relay stations in mostly French-speaking African countries.

16, 527, 148 are Ghanaian passport holders ( i. e. Ghanaian citizenship and Ghanaian passport holders ), while 745, 294 are permanent residents ( i. e. holders of the Ghana Card ), and 307, 978 are foreign workers ( i. e. non-resident ), with an estimated 7, 078, 403 being illegal immigrants mostly from West African countries.

The sweet German wines sold in English-speaking countries seem mostly to cater to the foreign market, as they are rare in Germany.

In many countries there are regional geocaching sites, but these mostly only compile lists of caches in the area from the three main sites.

Approximately 80 percent of the weapons manufactured in Brazil are exported, mostly to neighboring countries ; many of these weapons are then smuggled back into Brazil.

These fourteen countries came to be known as the " Cairns Group ", and included mostly small and medium sized agricultural exporters such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, and New Zealand.

Other European countries, such as Belgium, Germany, and Italy, pursued colonial empires as well ( mostly in Africa ), but they were comparatively smaller than those mentioned above.

Gaddafi stopped endorsing terrorist attacks on western countries, and while his behaviour remained extremely erratic, occasionally provoking international incidents such as the HIV trial in Libya and the Swiss-Libyan diplomatic crisis, Gaddafi managed to improve his image in the west and by the early 2000s had mostly benign relations with western democracies.

Although α and − α produce the same differential equation, it is conventional to define different Bessel functions for these two orders ( e. g., so that the Bessel functions are mostly smooth functions of α ).

The addresses and sermons of Eusebius are mostly lost, but some have been preserved, e. g., a sermon on the consecration of the church in Tyre and an address on the thirtieth anniversary of the reign of Constantine ( 336 ).

The free software community has from time to time explored a guild-like structure to unite against competition from Microsoft, e. g. Advogato assigns journeyer and master ranks to those committing to work only or mostly on free software.

German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects ( e. g. Alemannic ).

Most hydrogen is employed near its production site, with the two largest uses being fossil fuel processing ( e. g., hydrocracking ) and ammonia production, mostly for the fertilizer market.

In 1934, the authorities of the Basel-Stadt canton criminalized anti-Jewish hate speech, e. g. the accusation of ritual murders, mostly in reaction against a pro-nazi antisemitic group and newspaper, the Volksbund.

The distillation process was to be repeated until the final product was perfectly clear and " safe to light ", i. e. volatile hydrocarbon fractions had been mostly removed.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

The long-term prognosis for individuals with the disorder is uncertain, and this has mostly to do with the etiology ( underlying cause ; i. e. autoimmune, paraneoplastic, etc.

A pawnshop might have too little inventory if, for example, it mostly buys jewels and gold that it resells or smelts — or perhaps the pawnshop owner quickly sells most items through specialty shops ( e. g., musical instruments to music stores, stereos to used hi-fi audio stores, etc .).

Though the code of chivalry crucial to later continental romances dealing with the Round Table is mostly absent from the earlier Welsh material, some passages of Culhwch and Olwen seem to prefigure it, for instance when Arthur explains the ethos of his court, saying " e are nobles as long as we are sought out: the greater the bounty we may give, the greater our nobility, fame and honour.

The popularly held beliefs that Satan was once a prideful angel who eventually rebels against God, however, are not portrayed explicitly in the Bible and are mostly based on inference ( e. g., Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14: 12 – 17 ).

* Police or regulators cannot initiate complaints under criminal law but can only investigate ( prosecution is mostly reserved for the Crown Prosecution Service ), which prevents selective enforcement, e. g. the ' fishing expedition ' which is often specifically forbidden.

In addition to numerous modern bridges over the Tiber in Rome, there remain several ancient bridges ( now mostly pedestrian-only ) that have survived in part ( e. g., the Milvian Bridge and the Ponte Sant ' Angelo ) or in whole ( Fabricius ' Bridge ).

The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked ( e. g. the Greek lyre ).

Such studies include mostly medical analysis of the voice i. e. phoniatrics, but also speaker identification.

As this was to be a meeting of administrators to discuss implementation of a policy already decided at the executive level, those invited were mostly state secretaries, i. e., chief administrative ( subministerial ) officers of government ministries.

Beliefs in witchcraft, and resulting witch-hunts, existed in many cultures worldwide and still exist in some today, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa ( e. g. the witch smellers in Bantu culture ).

In French furniture the style remained somewhat more reserved, since the ornaments were mostly of wood, or, after the fashion of wood-carving, less robust and naturalistic and less exuberant in the mixture of natural with artificial forms of all kinds ( e. g. plant motives, stalactitic representations, grotesques, masks, implements of various professions, badges, paintings, precious stones ).

This is mostly due to Indonesians combining aspects of their own local languages ( e. g., Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, and Chinese dialects ) with Indonesian.

In Essex, towns that mostly grew up from post-war migration out of London ( e. g. Basildon and Harlow ) often have a strong Cockney influence on local speech.

In contrast to the previously mentioned amplifiers, which are mostly used in telecommunication environments, this type finds its main application in expanding the frequency tunability of ultrafast solid-state lasers ( e. g. Ti: sapphire ).