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For all concerned with social-welfare legislation, the significance of this radical and revolutionary change in the thought and habits of the vast majority of the American people is clear, profound and far-reaching.
Debierne, who is now considered by the vast majority of historians as the discoverer, lost interest in the element and left the topic.
The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.
This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.
Wesley thoroughly agreed with the vast majority of what Arminius himself taught, maintaining strong doctrines of original sin, total depravity, conditional election, prevenient grace, unlimited atonement, and possibly apostasy.
The vast majority of his Khoja Ismaili followers in India welcomed him warmly, but some dissident members, sensing their loss of prestige with the arrival of the Imam, wished to maintain control over communal properties.
It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.
Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training.
Artillery is the most lethal form of land-based armament ; in the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II the vast majority of combat deaths were caused by artillery.
" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.
His superior command of Greek, and the fact that the vast majority of his writings were in Greek, led some in the West to claim that he was a Greek born in Alexandria.
A paradox in metabolism is that, while the vast majority of complex life on Earth requires oxygen for its existence, oxygen is a highly reactive molecule that damages living organisms by producing reactive oxygen species.
The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life.
They are responsible for the vast majority of published standards and specifications.
" However, the vast majority of evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and paleontologists completely dismiss the possibility of the existence of sasquatch.
When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.
Thus, a robust surveillance system involving human clinicians and veterinarians may identify a bioweapons attack early in the course of an epidemic, permitting the prophylaxis of disease in the vast majority of people ( and / or animals ) exposed but not yet ill.
Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.
There are three " parts " of the act under which the vast majority of " acts of bankruptcy " fall.
: Consumer estates were the vast majority, with 122 999 estates.
The vast majority of companies covered by the Act have hired internal auditors to ensure that the company adheres to required standards of internal control.
As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).
The vast majority of these products are exported, mainly to the United States.
At the same time the vast majority of these resources are exported, integrating Canada closely into the international economy.

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Instead, the game and rules focused on parties of characters exploring the Ringworld itself, and, despite its vast size ( with a surface area larger than that of all of Known Space's inhabited planets put together ), many who bought the game felt limited by this one world setting.
Known as the " Pacific Railroad " when it opened, this served as a vital link for trade, commerce, and travel and opened up vast regions of the North American heartland for settlement.
Known as " John F .", he studied at Dalhousie University and then entered the management of the family's vast business empire.
Known under the nickname of Melić, then Melith, which later became their surname, they obtained vast estates in Transylvania.

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Some scientists, including members of the Space Studies Institute, argue that the vast majority of mankind eventually will live in space and will benefit from doing this.
It also has considerable agricultural potential with its vast steppe lands accommodating both livestock and grain production, as well as developed space infrastructure, which took over all launches to the International Space Station from the Space Shuttle.
The earlier history of Trantor is recapitulated in The Currents of Space, mentioning the five worlds of the Trantorian Republic growing into the Trantorian Confederation and then Trantorian Empire ( evidently modelled on the Roman Republic, originally ruling only part of central Italy, developing into the vast Roman Empire ).
The National Space Society's vision is: People living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.
The second paper, " Power from Space and the Hydrogen Economy ," discussed the implications of the recent discovery of vast deposits of methane hydrates under Arctic permafrost and on continental shelves, which may be sufficient to meet all world energy needs for many thousands of years.
The mental capabilities of Minds are described in Excession to be vast enough to run entire universe-simulations inside their own imaginations, exploring metamathical ( a fictional branch of metamathematics ) scenarios, an activity addictive enough to cause some Minds to totally withdraw from caring about our own physical reality into " Infinite Fun Space ", their own, ironic and understated term for this sort of activity.
To the east of the route is Mojave Air & Space Port, home to the National Test Pilot School and SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded human spaceflight, as well as a vast airplane graveyard ; all are visible from Route 14.
Space produces no resources, as it is a vast void.
Worked with Cartoon Network's George Lowe ( voice of Space Ghost ) to produce the vast majority of commercials on 99X 1994-1996 before becoming Production Director and Air Talent from 1996-1999.
The wise disposer of all Events has hitherto smiled upon our virtuous Efforts ; Those Mercenary Troops, a few of whom lately boasted of Subjugating this vast Continent, have been check'd in their earliest Ravages and are now actually encircled in a small Space ; their Arms disgraced, and Suffering all the Calamities of a Siege.

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Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.
Since the death of Elissa Aalto the office has continued to operate as the Alvar Aalto Academy, giving advice on the restoration of Aalto buildings and organising the vast archive material.
The vast array of material on spiritual movements, anarchism, libertarian socialism and the Green Movement that is now available on the Internet has been perhaps more influential than any printed book.
This has led to the production of vast amounts of material on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle.
A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.
The MGH is a vast series ( it runs to hundreds of volumes and is still publishing ) of edited primary source material essential for scholarly work on late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
* Bowman v United Kingdom ( 1998 ) 26 EHRR 1, distributing vast quantities of anti-abortion material in contravention to election spending laws
The vast increase in film production after 1906 inevitably brought specialist writers into film-making as part of the increasing sub-division of labour, but even so the film companies still had to buy stories from outsiders to get enough material for their productions.
The German army was to be limited to 100, 000 officers and men ; the general staff was to be dissolved ; vast quantities of war material were to be handed over and the manufacture of munitions rigidly curtailed.
Natural populations of bacteria contain, among their vast numbers of individual members, considerable variation in their genetic material, primarily as the result of mutations.
Despite the political climate in which the band had lived, the vast majority ( though not all ) of the material the band released focused not upon the Northern Irish Troubles, but upon issues such as adolescence, teenage angst and heartbreak.
The project was launched in September 2010 and is making freely available, via a specially designed transcription interface, digital images of UCL's vast Bentham Papers collection — which runs to some 60, 000 manuscript folios — in order to engage the public and recruit volunteers to assist in transcribing the material.
Many aspects of Semitic Canaanite material culture now reflected a Mesopotamian influence, and the entire region became more tightly integrated into a vast international trading network.
To this end, a vast quantity of bridging material was collected, along with 2, 300 vehicles to carry it and 9, 000 engineers to assemble it.
Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah, having collated a vast number of manuscripts, systematized his material and arranged the Masorah in the second Bomberg edition of the Bible ( Venice, 1524 – 25 ).
While acknowledging that Morris had brought to light a vast quantity of previously unknown archival material, Finkelstein and Masalha accused Morris of presenting the evidence with a pro-Zionist spin.
The Pennells ' vast collection of Whistler material was bequeathed to the Library of Congress.
A running gag is the castaways ' ability to fashion a vast array of useful objects from bamboo and other local material.
Roine Stolt has written the vast majority of the material the band has recorded, with Bodin contributing most of the rest.
As nearby Eglin Field was expanded into a major testing base, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad laid a long sidetrack in Crestview in the spring of 1941 to handle the number of oil tankcars required to supply the Asphault Products Company with material for the vast paving job of the ten new airfields.
Edison hoped to concentrate the mountain's vast quantities of low-grade ore and supply East Coast mills with raw material.
") PiL material also made up the vast majority of tracks on the 2005 John Lydon compilation, The Best of British £ 1 Notes.
Stone is the one category of material which is used by ( virtually ) all human cultures and, for the vast majority of the human past, is the only record of human behaviour.
After the demise of Grand Royal Records in 2001, Sean signed with Capitol Records ( whose parent company EMI has released the vast majority of his father's musical output, group and solo ), yet no solo material surfaced until February 2006, when " Dead Meat " was released as the first single from his new album, Friendly Fire.

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