It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;

It has been my privilege to paint with Roy Mason on numerous occasions, mostly in the vicinity of Batavia.

Today, that distinction has mostly disappeared and the terms " astronomer " and " astrophysicist " are interchangeable.

Of course, the " substrate " of Angolan culture is African, mostly Bantu, while Portuguese culture has been imported.

Ambergris has been mostly known for its use in creating perfume and fragrance much like musk.

The ACC has been known to sailors for centuries ; it greatly speeds up any voyages from west to east, but makes sailing extremely difficult from east to west ; though this is mostly due to the prevailing westerly winds.

Thus, study of this Barnum / Forer effect has been mostly focused on the level of acceptance of fake horoscopes and fake astrological personality profiles.

Among these, mate has long been the most widely enjoyed ; in 2006, over 700, 000 metric tons were harvested in Argentina, mostly for domestic consumption.

In English, which has mostly lost the case system, the definite article and noun – " the car " – remain in the same form regardless of the grammatical role played by the words.

Technical fire control has been performed in various places, but mostly in firing batteries.

Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285, a beltway locally known as " the Perimeter " that has come to mark the boundary between “ Inside the Perimeter ” ( ITP ), the city and close-in suburbs, and “ Outside the Perimeter ” ( OTP ), the outer suburbs and exurbs.

Bromine is rarer than about three-quarters of elements in the Earth's crust ; however, the high solubility of bromide ion has caused its accumulation in the oceans, and commercially the element is easily extracted from brine pools, mostly in the United States, Israel and China.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

More recently, British artist James Mylne has been creating photo-realistic artwork using mostly black ballpoints, sometimes with minimal mixed-media color.

Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives in which he seemed incoherently drunk or ill. Haley's first wife has been quoted as saying, " He would call and ramble and dwell on the past, his mind was really warped.

Since the 1970s Bambara has mostly been written in the Latin script, using some additional phonetic characters.

" Though she claims thousands of followers, mostly in Germany, there has been no verification that any have lived for extended periods without food.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

The atoll has been occupied at various times by guano miners, would-be settlers or military personnel, mostly from Mexico, which formerly claimed it until international arbitration awarded it to France in 1931.

Diagnosis has mostly been based on clinical and physical examination of symptoms.

Chalmers has partnerships with major industries mostly in the Gothenburg region such as Ericsson, Volvo and SKF.

Copper deposition of the metal has been done mostly by electroplating, in order to reduce the cost.

It has more than 100 stars which do not vary widely in brightness, mostly being of the 15th and 16th magnitude.

It has many franchises and mostly eaten in the winter for people to keep warm.

It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

It has lost its ground of being and floats in a mist of appearances.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

he has lost confidence in his own eyes and in the validity of his own psychological insights.

He has been seduced by the marvels of the unconscious and has lost interest in studying the surfaces of character.

`` He has lost much blood '', he said.

But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination.

Here the New York Central Railroad, one of the Nation's most important carriers, has alone lost 47.6 percent of its passengers since 1949.

Meanwhile he has been thinking about the facts surrounding the problem, facts which he knows can never be complete, and the general background, much of which has already been lost to history.

Since the course, one member has lost her husband.

In such a case, any attitude would be as fitting or unfitting as any other, which means that the notion of fitness has lost all point.

He can take security from the fact that the progress he has made by his gentle approach will not be lost.

She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.

Yet nationalism has lost few of its charms for the historian, writer or man in the street.

The master's hand has lost none of its craft.

Beatie, getting no sympathy for her misfortune, soon rallies and finds that although she has lost a lover she has gained her freedom.

The instinct of discipline has been lost.

Nothing has been lost.

In the last oracle is mentioned that the " water which could speak ", has been lost for ever.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.