Most of it followed traditional forms and the aesthetic norms were handed down orally as well as written.

Most forms of artillery require a propellant to propel the projectile at the target.

Most forms of albinism are the result of the biological inheritance of genetically recessive alleles ( genes ) passed from both parents of an individual, though some rare forms are inherited from only one parent.

Most pop standard and jazz ballads are built from a single, introductory verse ; usually around 16 bars in length, and ending on the dominant ; the chorus or refrain, usually it is 16 or 32 bars long, and in AABA form ( though other forms such as ABAC are not uncommon ).

Most English verbs ( traditionally known as " weak verbs ") have just four separate forms, e. g., " start ", " starts ", " starting ", " started ".

Most radios and television sets prior to the 1970s used filament-heated-cathode electron tubes for signal selection and processing ; to this day, a hot cathode forms the source of the electron beam ( s ) in cathode ray tubes in many television sets and computer monitors.

Most have been extinct since the last ice age, although dwarf forms of mammoths might have survived as late as 2, 000 BCE.

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle.

Most forms of feminism characterize patriarchy as an unjust social system that is oppressive to women.

Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense, at least in written representations, though retaining a potential degree of linkage, however nebulous, with more traditional forms.

Most cooperative games are presented in the characteristic function form, while the extensive and the normal forms are used to define noncooperative games.

Most English personal pronouns have five forms ; in addition to the nominative and oblique case forms, the possessive case has both a determiner form ( such as my, our ) and a distinct independent form ( such as mine, ours ) ( with the exceptions that these are not distinct for the third person singular masculine car, it is his and that the third person singular neuter it does not have the possessive independent form ); and they have a distinct reflexive or intensive form ( such as myself, ourselves ).

** Most forms of cognitivism hold that some such propositions are true, as opposed to error theory, which asserts that all are erroneous.

Most forms of ethical subjectivism are relativist, but there are notable forms that are universalist:

Most forms of non-cognitivism are also forms of expressivism, however some such as Mark Timmons and Terrence Horgan distinguish the two and allow the possibility of cognitivist forms of expressivism.

Most relativist theories are forms of moral subjectivism, though not all subjectivist theories are relativistic.

Most forms of moral nihilism are non-cognitivist and vice versa, though there are notable exceptions such as universal prescriptivism ( which is semantically non-cognitive but substantially universal ).

Most molybdenum compounds have low solubility in water, but the molybdate ion MoO < sub > 4 </ sub >< sup > 2 −</ sup > is soluble and forms when molybdenum-containing minerals are in contact with oxygen and water.

Most forms are pricked with a fork or a similar tool to keep the finished product from puffing up, and the resulting flat piece of dough is cooked at high heat until it develops dark spots, then set aside to cool and, if sufficiently thin, to harden to crispness.

Most inhabited planets undergo terraforming, that is, the destruction of native plant and animal life and the imposition of Earth-based forms.

Most American Chinese establishments cater to non-Chinese customers with menus written in English or containing pictures.

Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).

Most people and institutions in China primarily use the Indian ( Arabic ) system for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used mainly in some formal or ceremonial occasions such as on printed money.

Most Chinese numerals of later period were descendants from Shang dynasty oracle numerals of 14th century B. C.

Most Chinese emperors used a mix of Legalism and Confucianism as their ruling doctrine, often with the latter embellishing the former.

Most Chinese regard Hui Halal food as cleaner than food made by non Muslims so their restaurants are popular in China.

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 of those prosecuted were labeled by the Kuomintang as " bandit spies " ( 匪諜 ), meaning spies for Chinese Communists, and punished as such.

Most Chinese history that is published in the People's Republic of China is based on a Marxist interpretation of history.

Most immigrants were illiterate or poorly educated peasants and coolies ( Chinese: 苦力, literally " hard labor "), who immigrated to developing countries in need of labor, such as the Americas, Australia, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Malaya and other places.

Most inhabitants of Diego Garcia through the period from 1793 to 1971 were plantation workers, but also included Franco-Mauritian managers, Indo-Mauritian administrators, Mauritian and Seychellois contract employees, and in the late 19th Century, Chinese and Somali employees.

Although the Chinese and Indian communities could maintain their own Chinese and Tamil-language primary schools, all their students were required to learn Malay, and to study an agreed “ Malayan curriculum .” Most importantly, the entry exam to the University of Malaya ( which moved from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in 1963 ) would be conducted in Malay, even though most teaching at the university was in English until the 1970s.

Most of Kyrgyzstan's rivers are tributaries of the Syrdariya, which has its headwaters in the western Tian Shan along the Chinese border.

Most of this trade is in barter conducted by ethnic Kyrgyz or Kazakhs who are Chinese citizens.

Most ( but not all ) machines sold to run TOPS-10 were painted " Blasi Blue ", whereas most TOPS-20 machines were painted " Terracotta " ( often mistakenly called " Chinese Red " or orange ; the actual name of the color on the paint cans was Terracotta ).

Most punctuation marks in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have similar functions to their English counterparts ; however, they often look different and have different customary rules.

Most Chinese people and many others have been influenced in some way by Taoist tradition.

Most Chinese and Westerners of the early 20th century regarded the traditional Chinese legal system as backward and barbaric.

Most sources credit the discovery of gunpowder to Chinese alchemists in the 9th century searching for an elixir of immortality.

Most of these staff speak Mandarin Chinese.

Most often it was transcribed phonetically using Chinese characters, as is the case with the only surviving copies of The Secret History of the Mongols.

Most Chinese were divided into four occupations with scholar-bureaucrats, who were also agrarian landlords, on top and merchants on the bottom because they did not produce but only distribute goods made by others.