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 of the warmblood breeds used in sport horse disciplines, have open stud books to varying degrees.

Most warmblood breeds began as a cross of draft horse breeds on Thoroughbreds, but have, in some cases, developed over the past century to the point where they are considered to be a true-breeding population and have a closed stud book.

Most forms of draw poker are closed games ( draw games with a rollout are an exception ).

Most community card poker games like Texas hold ' em are considered closed as well, because the only cards exposed before showdown belong to everyone ; the individual players ' cards are never seen until showdown.

Most if not all Internet poker sites have freeroll tournaments although in many cases require a payment of points to play.

Most poker rooms claim to actively scan for such activity.

Most online poker sites operate games exclusively in U. S. dollars, even if they do not accept players based in the United States.

Most of his winnings at the poker table he lost quickly betting on sports or horses, always looking for " action ".

Most poker games do not rank suits ; the ace of clubs is just as good as the ace of spades.

Most bingo halls also offer links to online poker and casino offerings as the patrons are often in the target market.

Most poker tournaments, for simplicity, group payouts based upon rank below the final table.

Most prods also have a rubber tip, though some have metal tips with dull barbs ( in a similar design to a fire poker ) for herding stubborn animals.

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 parts of Greenwich Village comprise mid-rise apartments, 19th-century row houses and the occasional one-family walk-up, a sharp contrast to the hi-rise landscape in Mid-and Downtown Manhattan.

Most buildings are in the Romanesque style, although some dormitories, engineering buildings, and physical sciences labs are of various Modernist styles ( especially two large Brutalist dormitories at the campus ' northern edge ) that sharply contrast with the predominantly red-brick campus.

Most nations of Western Europe use more comprehensive measures, and in sharp contrast to the heated discussion in the U. S., abstinence is hardly discussed as an educational measure.

Most forms of Chinese are strongly tonal ( an exception being Shanghainese, where the system has collapsed to only a two-way contrast at the word level with some initial consonants, and no contrast at all with others ); while some of the Tibetan languages, including the standard languages of Lhasa and Bhutan and Burmese, are more marginally tonal.

Most of the ozone that is destroyed is in the lower stratosphere, in contrast to the much smaller ozone depletion through homogeneous gas phase reactions, which occurs primarily in the upper stratosphere.

Most passerines lay coloured eggs, in contrast with non-passerines, most of whose eggs are white except in some ground-nesting groups such as Charadriiformes and nightjars, where camouflage is necessary, and some parasitic cuckoos, which match the passerine host's egg.

Most of Anouilh's plays of the late 1940s and into the 1950s become darker and distinctly cruel and, in contrast with his earlier works, begin to feature middle-aged characters who must view life more practically than Anouilh's former idealistic youths.

Most reviewers contrast the technical shoddiness of the film with its successful atmospherics.

Most of eastern China was ravaged by the Second Sino-Japanese War the Chinese Civil War, by contrast, Qinghai was relatively untouched.

Most of his music, even his sacred music, is simple and clear in outline, sometimes even ascetic ; a greater contrast between Binchois and the extreme complexity of the ars subtilior of the previous century would be hard to imagine.

Most victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks, which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or weakened patients.

Most notably, the Annals, in contrast to the Silmarillion and Quenta traditions, hold that Morgoth leaves Angband passing over Taur-na-Fuin to contest the passage of Sirion.

Most industry leaders see new product development as a proactive process where resources are allocated to identify market changes and seize upon new product opportunities before they occur ( in contrast to a reactive strategy in which nothing is done until problems occur or the competitor introduces an innovation ).

Most of the larger independent schools are either full or partial boarding schools, although many are now predominantly day schools ; by contrast there are only a few dozen state boarding schools.

Most Somali songs are pentatonic ; that is, they only use five pitches per octave in contrast to a heptatonic ( seven note ) scale such as the major scale.

Most Japanese immigrants wanted to reside in America permanently and came in family groups ( in contrast to the Chinese immigration of young men, most of whom soon returned ).

Most young Earth creationists today argue that Adam did not have a navel, and in contrast to Gosse, posit that not only is the Earth young but the scientific data supports that view.

Most Europeans had never seen an Asian before, and the harsh contrast in language and physical appearance probably caused more skepticism than transcontinental immigrants did.

Most people usually refer to it as an executive desk, in contrast with the cubicle desk which is assigned to those who work under the executive.

Most people make a bad joke now and then, but to make a joke about people who have just died in particularly horrible circumstances — the contrast between standing on the beach in the dark being drowned and sitting round a comfortable table making jokes about them is just, just horrible.

Most modern injected radiographic positive contrast media are iodine-based.

Most imaging centers now use non-ionic contrast exclusively, finding that the benefits to patients outweigh the expense.