The preconditions of sociology have remained largely unexamined by the sociologist.

In contrast, archaeology and biological anthropology remained largely positivist.

Until recently, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

In 2010, Armenia ’ s exports remained resource-dependent, largely because the non-resource-intensive sectors were significantly less competitive.

The Diamondbacks announced in early September 2006 that their uniforms, which remained largely unchanged since the team's first season, would be completely redesigned for the 2007 season.

The mountain areas were still not completely converted and remained largely by people of non-Muslim faiths.

While the government and parliament moved to Berlin, as a compromise, some of the ministries ( such as Defence and Agriculture ) largely remained in Bonn, with only the top officials in Berlin.

For Sundays and special feasts Lauds and Vespers largely remained the same, Psalm 118 remained distributed at the Little Hours and Psalms 4, 90, and 130 were kept at Compline.

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

Though there remained a nominal Zhou king until 256 BC, he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.

At this time Sun remained largely sidelined ; and, without arms or money, was soon expelled from Guangzhou and exiled again to Shanghai.

The countryside, however, remained largely under Communist control.

Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169.

Although the Legacy DOM implementations were largely compatible since JScript was based on JavaScript, the DHTML DOM extensions were developed in parallel by each browser maker and remained incompatible.

Dennett has remarked in several places ( such as " Self-portrait ", in Brainchildren ) that his overall philosophical project has remained largely the same since his time at Oxford.

The upright bass remained an integral part of pop lineups throughout the 1950s, as the new genre of rock and roll was built largely upon the model of rhythm and blues, with strong elements also derived from jazz, country, and bluegrass.

Freestyle remained a largely underground genre with a sizeable following in New York, but has seen a comeback in the cities where the music experienced its greatest success.

Indeed, according to various historical accounts, after that point few mathematicians tackled the issues and the work of those who did remained obscured largely because of resistance to such unfamiliar emerging concepts, which were sometimes referred to as mathematical " monsters ".

Agfa began to produce motion picture film in 1913, but remained a largely local supplier until World War I boycotts of popular French, American and Italian film stocks allowed the UFA film studio to flourish, boosting Agfa's orders.

Over the following years before the release of version 2. x in 2005, the game remained largely unchanged.

The inflectional categories of the Greek verb have likewise remained largely the same over the course of the language's history, though with significant changes in the number of distinctions within each category and their morphological expression.

Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.

The Christmas tree remained confined to the upper Rhineland for a relatively long time.

Before the Industrial Revolution in the mid-to-late 19th century, demand for oriental goods remained the driving force behind European imperialism, and ( with the important exception of British East India Company rule in India ) the European stake in Asia remained confined largely to trading stations and strategic outposts necessary to protect trade.

By this time however, the influence of Slobodan Milošević was confined to Serbia only as Montenegro had experienced internal regime change in 1996 when former Milošević ally Milo Đukanović reversed his policies, showed resilience by becoming leader of his party and subsequently dismissing former Montenegrin leader Momir Bulatović, a man who remained loyal to Milošević.

In Vedic religion, Dyaus Pitar remained confined to his distant, removed, passive role and the place of sovereign god was occupied by Varuna and Mitra.

Interestingly, though, his repertoire remained unusually confined to theatre and film.

Since, moreover, Dharma was made the central subject of a literary tradition which was to become vast and extensive throughout India, while the conception of Ṛta remained largely confined to the Vedas and their commentaries, it naturally took possession of brāhmaṇical thinking even at the expense of older, exalted concepts and conceptions.

Construction continued throughout World War I: some of the monks were of German nationality, but were not sent to an internment camp, on condition that they remained confined to the Abbey grounds.

For whatever reason, he abruptly retreated from public life and remained largely confined to his home, cared for by his estranged wife Sachiko.

Germany remained neutral ; Charles VII of France confined himself to securing to his kingdom ( by the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, which became law on 13 July 1438 ) the benefit of a great number of the reforms decreed at Basel ; England and Italy remained faithful to Eugene IV.

Manuel had Plethon confined in Mistra, though he remained something of a celebrity.

The area below the disputed site remained a place for public use for a long time till the Mughal period when the disputed structure was built which was confined to a limited area and the population settled around it as evidenced by the increase in contemporary archaeological material including pottery.

Mary remained an active member of the Jehovah's Witnesses until becoming confined to her home in the years before her death in 1962 at age 93.

" While this went largely unheeded, and many children and adults in the U. S. referred to and continue to refer to the pieces as " LEGOs ", use of the deprecated term remained largely confined to the LEGO Company's own products – and not, for example, to Tyco's competing and interchangeable product – so genericization of the LEGO trademark did not occur.

The Soviet period saw a rapid increase of the population, although most of it remained confined to urbanized territories along the sea coast and the railroads.

His former immediate superior at the time stated that Waldheim had " remained confined to a desk ".

The family diversified and prospered but remained confined to the North American continent until only about 2 or 3 million years ago, when representatives arrived in Asia, and ( as part of the Great American Interchange that followed the formation of the Isthmus of Panama ) South America.

Although the origins of a movement that was confined largely to the literate culture of intellectual endeavor and patronage can be traced to the earlier part of the 14th century, many aspects of Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval ; the Renaissance did not come into full swing until the end of the century.

She remained confined to a room on the second floor, leaving the social chores to her daughter ( Martha Johnson Patterson ).

Afterwards, the head of Husayn remained confiscated and confined in Damascus by the order of the Umayyad monarch, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik ( d. 86 / 705 ), in this condition for about two hundred twenty years.

The party's electoral success remained largely confined to the Northwest Province, where it again won a majority of seats, with 11 out of 20.

Within a few years she was confined to her bed, and remained incapacitated for 22 years.

The Balkars remained confined by the special settlement restrictions until 28 April 1956.