Most residents of the atolls depend on groundwater or rainwater for drinking purposes.

Most of the islands comprise low, flat coral atolls, but some rise high above sea level.

Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan (), KCMG, NGIV ( Nishan Ghaazeege ' Izzatheri Veriya, ) ( Insignia of the Most Distinguished Order of Ghazi ) ( September 2, 1926 – November 22, 2008 ) was a Maldivian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Maldives under Sultan Muhammad Fareed Didi from 1957 to 1968 and succeeded him to become the first President of the Second Republic from 1968 to 1978.

Most international students come from Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Japan, Afghanistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar etc.

Most nuts consist of the richly packaged storage kernel and its thick, adherent, brown covering -- the seedcoat.

Most diving competitions consist of three disciplines: 1 m and 3 m springboards, and the platform.

Most state championship meets consist of eleven dives.

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 earthquake clusters consist of small tremors that cause little to no damage, but there is a theory that earthquakes can recur in a regular pattern.

Most consist of a regular guitar, plus additional " harp " strings strung above the six normal strings.

Most terrestrial helium present today is created by the natural radioactive decay of heavy radioactive elements ( thorium and uranium ), as the alpha particles emitted by such decays consist of helium-4 nuclei.

Most copper devices consist of a plastic core that is wrapped in a copper wire.

Most of the beaches consist of either grass, rocks, or the silty sand that also makes up most of the bottom of the lake.

Most varieties of pyroxene consist of permutations of Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup >, Fe < sup > 2 +</ sup > and Mg < sup > 2 +</ sup > to balance the negative charge on the backbone.

Most proteins consist of linear polymers built from series of up to 20 different-α-amino acids.

Most slide rules consist of three linear strips of the same length, aligned in parallel and interlocked so that the central strip can be moved lengthwise relative to the other two.

Most large submarines consist of a cylindrical body with hemispherical ( and / or conical ) ends and a vertical structure, usually located amidships, which houses communications and sensing devices as well as periscopes.

Most chemical-reaction monopropellant rocket systems consist of a fuel tank, usually a titanium or aluminium sphere, with an ethylene-propylene rubber container or a surface tension propellant management device filled with the fuel.

Most corporate intranets consist of a high speed backbone network.

Most often choirs consist of four sections intended to sing in four part harmony, but there is no limit to the number of possible parts as long as there is a singer available to sing the part: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each ; Krzysztof Penderecki's Stabat Mater is for three choirs of 16 voices each, a total of 48 parts.

Most of their diets consist of fish, but can also include crayfish, frogs, ducklings, snakes, muskrats, mice, other small mammals, and small birds.

Most high explosive bombs consist of an insensitive secondary explosive that must be detonated with a blasting cap containing a more sensitive primary explosive.

Most observed GRBs are believed to consist of a narrow beam of intense radiation released during a supernova as a rapidly rotating, high-mass star collapses to form a neutron star, quark star, or black hole.

Most Socratic inquiries consist of a series of elenchi and typically end in aporia.

Most still consist of shirts with shorts or trousers for males, and skirts for females, only with differences on the color.

Most major traffic junctions consist of 2-lane roundabouts.

Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, which in turn consist of polyps that cluster in groups.

Most of the region's forests consist of softwood.

Most arrangements for large ensembles, big bands, in the swing era, were written down, however, and credited to a specific arranger, as were later arrangements for the Count Basie big band by Sammy Nestico and Neal Hefti.

Most intercalators are large polyaromatic compounds and are known or suspected carcinogens.

Most uses of diamonds in these technologies do not require large diamonds ; in fact, most diamonds that are gem-quality except for their small size, can find an industrial use.

Most countries control bank mergers and are wary of concentration in this industry due to the danger of groupthink and runaway lending bubbles based on a single point of failure, the credit culture of the few large banks.

Most of Cambridge's large office towers are located here, giving the area somewhat of an office park feel.

Most material ejected from the crater is deposited within a few crater radii, but a small fraction may travel large distances at high velocity, and in large impacts it may exceed escape velocity and leave the impacted planet or moon entirely.

Most recently, the Tea Party movement, founded in 2009, has proven a large outlet for populist American conservative ideas.

Most Canadian whiskies are blended multi-grain liquors containing a large percentage of corn spirits, and are typically lighter and smoother than other whisky styles.

Most industry of this sort is located around the working-class perimeter of Santo Domingo and other large towns.

Most natural dyes are mordant dyes and there is therefore a large literature base describing dyeing techniques.

Most, however, possess large amounts of intelligence and human speech.

Most non-dinosaurian archosaurs, most therapsids, and most of the large amphibians were eliminated, leaving dinosaurs with little terrestrial competition.

Most passenger train services originate or terminate at Helsinki Central railway station, and a large proportion of the passenger rail network radiates out of Helsinki.

" Most agarose gels are made with between 0. 7 % ( good separation or resolution of large 5 – 10kb DNA fragments ) and 2 % ( good resolution for small 0. 2 – 1kb fragments ) agarose dissolved in electrophoresis buffer.

Most ( though not all, see Mott insulator ) insulators have a large band gap.

Most cultures have at some point had a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewellery.

Most of the large Roman baths were also cultural centres, built from the start with a library, a two room arrangement with one room for Greek and one for Latin texts.

Most importantly public awareness would need to improve for industrialized countries to realize the large payoff in reducing over-illumination.

Most locksmiths also do electronic lock servicing, such as making keys for transponder-equipped vehicles and the implementation and application of access control systems protecting individuals and assets for many large institutions.

Most large scale battery powered models use radio control.

Most developers instead stuck with the original POE concept of a single large server providing the operating system functionality.

Most people would probably agree that at some 7 500 strong the Army is unnecessarily large, but sensible plans will need to be made for the employment of any surplus soldiers before they are discharged.

Most of West Papua, at that time known as Dutch New Guinea, was occupied, as were large parts of the Territory of New Guinea ( the former German New Guinea, which was also under Australian rule after World War I ), but Papua was protected to a large extent by its southern location and the near-impassable Owen Stanley Ranges to the north.