Most scholars hold that the Hebrew text underlying the Septuagint version is older than the Masoretic text and that either the Masoretic evolved either from this vorlage or from a closely related version.

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 modern societies have laws regarding incest or social restrictions on closely consanguineous marriages.

Most of the planetary orbits can be rather closely approximated as circles, so it is not immediately evident that the orbits are ellipses.

Most of the evidence from that period has been discovered in tombs, many closely associated with Titelberg, a 50 ha site which reveals much about the dwellings and handicrafts of the period.

Most revolvers made today have drop safeties ( such as firing pin blocks, hammer blocks, or transfer bars ) that prevent the firing pin from contacting the cartridge's primer unless the trigger is pulled, which correlates more closely to an intentional firing.

Most popular accounts are based on E. A. Ritter's novel Shaka Zulu ( 1955 ), a potboiling romance which was re-edited into something more closely resembling a history.

Most of the southern peoples use the Ewe or Mina languages, which are closely related and spoken in commercial sectors throughout Togo.

) Most of these territories were in effect ceded to the German Empire, which intended to have them become economically dependent on and politically closely tied to the empire under various German kings and dukes.

Most sharks, rays and skates ( Elasmobranchii ) have small brain-to-body ratios, but the ratio is relatively high in manta rays and the closely related Mobula rays.

Most levels of football, including high school, college, most indoor leagues, and Canadian football, use a system known as the " Kansas Playoff " that more closely resembles baseball innings.

Most states model their general jurisdiction trial court rules closely upon the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure with modifications to address types of cases that come up predominantly in state practice, and model their professional ethics rules closely upon models drafted by the American Bar Association with minor modifications.

Most significant moons in the Solar System are tidally locked with their primaries, since they orbit very closely and tidal force increases rapidly ( as a cubic ) with decreasing distance.

Most of these styles are closely related to the styles and variations in neighboring Mongolia.

Most would not consider it unreasonable to label an economy that, while not being a perfect representation, very closely resembles an ideal by applying the rubric that denominates that ideal.

Most varieties of Malvasia are closely related to Malvasia Bianca.

Most of natron's uses both in the home and by industry were gradually replaced with closely related sodium compounds and minerals.

Most of the plant consists of a branched whitish underground stem closely covered with thick fleshy colourless leaves, which are bent over so as to hide the under surface ; irregular cavities communicating with the exterior are formed in the thickness of the leaf.

Most breed standards use the terms " ticked " and " roan " interchangeably, with the former referring to clearly defined flecks on a white background and the latter to flecks so closely spaced that the mixture appears even.

Most of the cities in the prefecture are closely connected to downtown Tokyo by metropolitan rail, and operate largely as residential and commercial suburbs of Tokyo.

Most receivers have the ability to compute a great circle route towards a waypoint, enabling them to find the shortest route even over long distances, although waypoints are often so closely spaced that this isn't a factor.

Most of the ostracoderms, such as thelodonts, osteostracans, and galeaspids, were more closely related to the gnathostomes than to the surviving agnathans, known as cyclostomes.

Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction between internment, which is being confined usually for preventive or political reasons, and imprisonment, which is being closely confined as a punishment for crime.

Most of the Garamond faces are more closely related to the work of a later punch-cutter, Jean Jannon.

Most members share a suite of glucosinolate compounds that have a typical pungent odour usually associated with cole crops.

Most early vector CPUs, such as the Cray-1, were associated almost exclusively with scientific research and cryptography applications.

Most rearrangements are associated with the breaking and formation of new carbon-carbon bonds.

Most Chinese until recently have avoided milk, partly because pasturage for milk producers in a monsoon rice ecology is not economic, partly because milk products became negatively associated with horse riding, milk drinking nomadic tribes.

Most plant exposures occur in children younger than six years and are usually unintentional and without associated significant toxicity.

Most hormones initiate a cellular response by initially combining with either a specific intracellular or cell membrane associated receptor protein.

Most of their titles are associated with The Vanilla Series, a series of hentai titles produced in Japan by Digital Works which are tied-in with eroge games of the same title.

Most notably they are associated with the positions of police officer, firefighter, Roman Catholic Church leaders and politicians in the larger Eastern Seaboard metropolitan areas.

Most IHO publications, including the standards, guidelines and associated documents such as the International Hydrographic Review, International Hydrographic Bulletin, the Hydrographic Dictionary and the Year book are available to the general public free from the IHO website.

Most air accident investigations are carried out by an agency of a country that is associated in some way with the accident ; for example, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch conducts accident investigations on behalf of the British Government.

Most literature supports the belief that IC's symptoms are associated with a defect in the bladder epithelium lining allows irritating substances in the urine to penetrate into the bladder — essentially, a breakdown of the bladder lining ( also known as Adherence Theory ).

Most of the Methodist aristocracy were associated with the Countess of Huntingdon who invited Methodist preachers to gatherings she hosted.

Most programming languages have an associated core library ( sometimes known as the ' standard library ', especially if it is included as part of the published language standard ), which is conventionally made available by all implementations of the language.

Most Paranthropus species seem almost certainly not to have used language nor to have controlled fire, although they are directly associated with the latter at Swartkrans.

Most individuals associated with the project, including O ' Brien, agree that the film will probably never be made, owing to the failure of Shock Treatment and the aging of the cast.

Most of these national bodies are associated then with the International governing body call TWIF which stands for The Tug of War International Federation.

Most modernists disdained the villanelle, which became associated with the overwrought formal aestheticism of the 1890s ; i. e. the decadent movement in England.

* Most of Europe enjoyed growing prosperity during the 90s however problems including the massive 1995 general strikes in France following a recession and the difficulties associated with German reunification lead to sluggish growth in these countries.

Most often Isis is seen holding only the generic ankh sign and a simple staff, but in late images she is seen sometimes with items usually associated only with Hathor, the sacred sistrum rattle and the fertility-bearing menat necklace.

Most other species, however, have external gills, generally, although not always, associated with the parapodia.

Most of the Maoist reforms associated with the Cultural Revolution were abandoned by 1978.

Most of the readily visible signs are associated with the skeletal system.

Most commonly associated with radiological or chemical materials, dirty bombs seek to kill or injure and then to deny access to a contaminated area until a thorough clean-up can be accomplished.

Most tyrosine kinases have an associated protein tyrosine phosphatase, which removes the phosphate group.