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Most of these are installed in government offices, collective farms, and state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ), with only perhaps 10 percent controlled by individuals or households.
Most important, they assumed collective responsibility for carrying Mafia prosecutions forward: all the members of the pool signed prosecutorial orders to avoid exposing any one of them to particular risk, such as the one that had cost judge Gaetano Costa his life.
Most of the books are published under the collective pseudonym of Victor Appleton.
Most controversially, he articulated, along with a few other maverick Bolsheviks, a philosophy he called " God-Building ", which sought to recapture the power of myth for the revolution and to create a religious atheism that placed collective humanity where God had been and was imbued with passion, wonderment, moral certainty, and the promise of deliverance from evil, suffering, and even death.
Most modern historians believe that this famine was caused by the sudden disruption of production brought on by collective farming policies and mass seizure of property ( the proceeds of which were used, according to Aleksandr Bushkov, to accelerate industrial development ).
See also the collective use of " Most Honourable ", as in " The Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council " ( the Privy Council ).
Most significant was their form of collective worship.
Most of her novels address " sexual desire and the family ", exploring " the relationship between sexual behaviour and social organisation ; the anarchic nature of desire and the orderly force of the institution of ' family '; the similarities and differences between collective households and nuclear families ; the significance and the language of housework ; the idea of ' the house ' as image, symbol, site and peace.
Most of the delegates present at the 17th congress in 1934 were gone, and Stalin was heavily praised by Litvinov and the western democracies criticized for failing to adopt the principles of " collective security " against Nazi Germany.
Most of the roots of modern Turkish literature were formed between the years 1896 — when the first collective literary movement arose — and 1923, when the Republic of Turkey was officially founded.
Most of the nationally know horn bands were populated by reading musicians who were more comfortable with scores than long stretches of solo or collective improvisation.
Most of the languages – Tiwa ( Taos, Picuris, Southern Tiwa ), Tewa, and Towa – are spoken in the Pueblos of New Mexico ( with one outlier in Arizona ) and were the ones first given the collective name Tanoan, while Kiowa is spoken mostly in southwestern Oklahoma.
Most papers were run on collective principles.
Most of the Russian defenders of the city killed during the siege were buried in Brotherhood cemetery in over 400 collective graves.
Most immediate abbots however, while bearing the title of a " Prince-Abbot ", only held the status of an Imperial prelate with a collective vote in the Reichstag.
Most workplaces are today covered by collective agreements set up by Landsorganisationen, which apply not only to members of LO, but also other employees of the workplace in question.
Most of Ulu Baram belongs to the traditional area of the Orang Ulu ( Upriver People ), a collective name that includes the Penan people ( about 10, 000 overall ), Kayan, Kenyah, Saban, Punan and Kelabit.
Most models are fixed-pitch, i. e. the collective pitch of the blades cannot be controlled, plus the cyclic control is only applied to the lower rotor.
In 2008, it was included in the Associated Press ' " 10 Most Influential Telenovelas of Latin America " list, " because it represented a precedent in this genre and has had an influence on the collective imaginary.
Most alternative bands were unified by their collective debt to punk, which laid the groundwork for underground and alternative music in the 1970s.

Most and nouns
Most of the words changed by this process are nouns.
Most languages have a number of verbal nouns that describe the action of the verb.
Most Lithuanian nouns can take the illative ending, indicating that from the descriptive point of view the illative still can be treated as a case in Lithuanian, although since the beginning of the 20th century it isn't included in the lists of standard Lithuanian cases in most grammars and textbooks and the prepositional construction į + accusative is more frequently used today to denote direction.
Most measure words in English correspond to units of measurement or containers, and are themselves count nouns rather than grammatical particles:
Most adjectives, when used attributively, appear after their nouns: le vin rouge (" the red wine ").
Most of the nouns of the song are in use in all major languages in India.
Most of the neuter nouns became masculine while a few feminine, like the neuter अग ् न ि ( agni ) in the Prakrit became the feminine आग ( āg ) in Hindi and jag in Romani.
Most of the claims about Koko's language use center around her use, not of sentences, but of adjectives, nouns, and noun phrases.
Most of the neuter nouns became masculine while a few feminine, like the neuter अग ् न ि ( agni ) in the Prakrit became the feminine आग ( āg ) in Hindi and jag in Romani.
Most readers can undoubtedly think of new nouns or verbs entering their lexicon, but it's very unlikely that they can recall any new prepositions or pronouns appearing in the same fashion.
Most nouns which inflect according to this system designate objects that are frequently found in groups, for example adar " birds / flock of birds ", aderyn " bird "; mefus " a bed of strawberries ", mefusen " a strawberry "; " children ", " a child "; and " forest ", " a tree ".
Most find it best to not even drop articles when using proper nouns made from foreign languages:
Most nouns have one or more particular classifiers associated with them.
Most first-declension nouns are feminine, some masculine.
Most nouns and many adjectives can take diminutive or augmentative derivational suffixes, and most adjectives can take a so-called " superlative " derivational suffix.
Most keywords are proper nouns, but some common nouns also are not translated, such as " fiend " ( e. g. Y fiend!
Most Anglo-Chinese borrowings are nouns ( Yuan 1981: 250 ), with a few exceptions such as to kowtow, to Shanghai, to brainwash, and lose face.
Most classical compounds translate readily into everyday language, especially nouns: bio-as ‘ life ’-graphy as ‘ writing, description ’.
Most words of this kind come from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative-or.
Most Spanish nouns beginning with the letters al-( from the Arabic definite article ) have their origin in Arabic.
Most of the lines for this video game were recorded with the nouns and verbs being fractured ; resulting in one-second pauses between non-crucial words and words crucial to gameplay.
Most adjectives can be treated as nouns or pronouns.
Most nouns which belong in this system are frequently found in groups, for example, " children " and " a child ", or " forest " and " a tree ".

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