The Daoyuan diverges from the common maternal pattern by describing the supreme deity as male, naming him " Most Sacred Venerable Patriarch of Former Heaven " ( Zhisheng Xiantian Laozu ).

* Most monocots are unable to thicken their stems once they have formed, since they lack the cylindrical meristem present in other angiosperm groups.

Most of the special interest groups also have an annual conference.

Most Southern Baptist and National Baptist congregations, by contrast, generally relate more closely to external groups such as mission agencies and educational institutions than do those of independent persuasion.

Most members of these two groups are easily recognizable as cacti.

Most of the groups regarded by the larger group of Bahá ' ís as Covenant-breakers originated in the claims of Charles Mason Remey to the Guardianship in 1960.

Most provincial level competitions consist of events for 6 different age groups ( Groups A, B, C, D, E, and Open ) for both genders on each of the three board levels.

Most of the groups important in physics and chemistry are Lie groups, and their representation theory is crucial to the application of group theory in those fields.

Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households may be other social groups, organizations or individuals.

Most Protea species can be placed in one of two broad groups according to their response to fire: reseeders are killed by fire, but fire also triggers the release of their canopy seed bank, thus promoting recruitment of the next generation ; resprouters survive fire, resprouting from a lignotuber or, more rarely, epicormic buds protected by thick bark.

Most of Noland's paintings fall into one of four groups: circles, or targets ( see Beginning illustrated ), chevrons, ( see infobox ), stripes, and shaped canvases.

Most lorisids are solitary or live in small family groups.

Most often this takes the form of monetary or material donations or campaigning to the institutions which oversee the library, sometimes by advocacy groups such as Friends of Libraries.

Most deputies do not represent political parties as they are known in the West, and rarely form Western-style groups in the assembly.

Most involve studying specializations of particular animal groups, such as phycology, invertebrate zoology and ichthyology.

Most of these are operated by groups of volunteers and have a historical or tourist focus.

Most modern Pagan groups hold to a theology that embraces such beliefs as polytheism, animism, and pantheism, although there are groups who have instead advocated forms of Goddess-centred monotheism, agnosticism or atheism.

Most fall into ambiguous groups of frond-like animals (?

Most functional groups feature heteroatoms ( atoms other than C and H ).

Most prairie dog family groups are made up of one adult breeding male, two to three adult females and one to two male offspring and one to two female offspring.

Most digital computers internally represent all of their data as electronic representations of binary numbers, so processing the digits of integer representations by groups of binary digit representations is most convenient.

Most are organized by volunteers in non-profit groups, though most media-oriented events are organized by commercial promoters.

Most groups meet in libraries, schools and universities, community centers, pubs or restaurants, or the homes of individual members.

Most of these two founding groups of professors remained at Stanford until their retirement and were referred to as the " Old Guard ".

Most development projects, such as road construction, rely on Indian migrant labor.

Most reconstructions of social communities by archaeologists rely on the principle that social interaction is conditioned by physical distance.

Most commercial curry powders available in Britain, the U. S. and Canada, rely heavily on ground turmeric, in turn producing a very yellow sauce.

Most new engines rely on electrical and electronic engine control units ( ECU ) that also adjust the combustion process to increase efficiency and reduce emissions.

Most classes rely on a combination of lectures, recitations led by graduate students, weekly problem sets (" p-sets "), and tests.

Most other modern techniques rely on crossing lines of position or LOP.

Most such methods do rely on comparisons between the sequence to be predicted and sequences of known structure in the Protein Data Bank and thus account for environment indirectly, assuming the target and template sequences share similar cellular contexts.

Most land plants and land ecosystems rely on mutualisms between the plants, which fix carbon from the air, and mycorrhyzal fungi, which help in extracting minerals from the ground.

Most sharks rely on ram ventilation, forcing water into the mouth and over the gills by rapidly swimming forward.

Most agreements rely on the continued desire of the participants to abide by the terms to remain effective.

Most chelicerates rely on modified bristles for touch and for information about vibrations, air currents, and chemical changes in their environment.

Most legislatures prefer to base liability on either intention or recklessness and, faced with the need to establish recklessness as the default mens rea for guilt, those practising in most legal systems rely heavily on objective tests to establish the minimum requirement of foresight for recklessness.

Most traders are also not liable for Income Tax unless they rely solely on their profits from financial spread betting to support themselves.

Most observed effects are due not to toxicity, but to habitat changes and the decreases in abundance of species on which birds rely for food or shelter.

Most primarily rely on a thick layer of blubber ( fat ) under their skin, which also provides buoyancy, hydrodynamic shape, and stores energy.

Most productions rely on rather predictable contrasts in costuming to imply the rigid discipline of the former and the languid self-indulgence of the latter.

Most mosses rely on the wind to disperse these spores.

* Most DACs, shown earlier in this list, rely on a constant reference voltage to create their output value.

Most residents rely on bus services to reach the nearest rail stations.

Most modern, multi-user operating systems include access control and thereby rely on authorization.

Most of the above vector properties ( except for those that rely explicitly on del's differential properties — for example, the product rule ) rely only on symbol rearrangement, and must necessarily hold if del is replaced by any other vector.

Most digital recordings rely at least to some extent on computational encoding and decoding and so may become completely unplayable if not enough consecutive good data is available for the decoder to synchronize to the digital data stream, whereas any intact fragment of any size of an analog recording is playable.

Most people in the universe rely on personal body shields, which have made all forms of projectile weapons semi-obsolete.

Most women across the globe rely on the informal work sector for an income.