Most cities were composed of several tribes or phylai, which were in turn composed of phratries ( common-ancestry lineages ), and finally génea ( extended families )

Most lineages adopted the form of calcium carbonate which was stable in the ocean at the time they first mineralised, and did not change from this mineral morph-even when it became the less favorable.

Most lineages maintained links to a home territory ( butaka ) within a larger clan territory, but lineage members did not necessarily live on butaka land.

Most of the Batlokwa clans trace their royal lineages to Queen Manthatisi and her son Chief Sekonyela, and have the wild-cat as their original totem.

Most osteoglossomorph lineages are extinct today.

Most trace their origins to ruling lineages of the medieval Kanem-Bornu, its client states or provinces.

Most psychrophiles are bacteria or archaea, and psychrophily is present in widely diverse microbial lineages within those broad groups.

Most of these lineages had been founded by religious teachers or their descendants.

Most lineages ( e. g., of plants ) never got smart, and all lineages of animals on earth except ours were stuck well beneath the subgenius level.

* Most evolution &# 151 ;" nine-tenths "&# 151 ; occurs by the steady phyletic transformation of whole lineages ( anagenesis ).

* Most lineages of Hung Gar and Hung Fut contain drunken forms.

Most usage of supercluster in population genetics research articles applies to proposed large groups of human mtDNA haplotype lineages, found by cluster analysis, that are thought to stem from a single distant most recent common ancestor, on a time scale of tens of thousands of years.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

" Most ancient writers considered him a highly successful leader in guerrilla warfare, alert and quick, yet cautious — a man, moreover, whose personal bravery was rarely questioned in his own time.

Most psychologists and neuroscientists have not accepted these arguments — nevertheless it is clear that the relationship between a physical entity such as light and a perceptual quality such as color is extraordinarily complex and indirect, as demonstrated by a variety of optical illusions such as neon color spreading.

Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp — such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp — used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers.

Most soft sectored and all hard sectored drives would have also required an extra cut-out for the index hole — a harder modification.

Most of them-and many widows as well — lived in poverty.

Most Christians believe that the kosher food laws do not apply to them as they are no longer under the Law of Moses, and that, as Jesus taught in Mark 7: what you eat doesn't make you unclean but what comes out of a man's heart makes him unclean — although Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have their own set of dietary observances.

Most of the film noirs of the classic period were similarly low-and modestly budgeted features without major stars — B movies either literally or in spirit.

Most Guineans, 99 %, are blacks — mostly Fula and Mandinka-speakers concentrated in the north and northeast, the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern coastal regions, and the Manjaco and Mancanha, occupying the central and northern coastal areas.

Most factions of the Taliban, Iraqi insurgency, Colombia's FARC, and the Communist Party of India ( Maoist ) are said to be engaged in some form of guerrilla warfare — as was, until recently, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ).

Most citrine is made by heating amethyst, and partial heating with a strong gradient results in ametrine — a stone partly amethyst and partly citrine.

Most political actors perceived Duvalier — a medical doctor who had served as a rural administrator of a United States-funded anti-yaws campaign before entering the cabinet under Estimé — as an honest and fairly unassuming leader without a strong ideological motivation or program.

( Most of the universe's mass is not in the form of chemical elements — that is, " baryonic " matter — but is made up of dark matter and dark energy.

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 artists, theatres, and orchestras — after struggling to survive the Depression — found these inducements hard to refuse.

He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 — the first black player so honored.

Most flora which begin to grow above water — primarily coconut palms — die out quickly due to the fierce tides and lack of resources necessary to sustain plant life.

Most scholars have agreed with the assessment made by Hans Bethe in 1952, which concluded that by the time Fuchs left the thermonuclear program — the summer of 1946 — there was too little known about the mechanism of the hydrogen bomb for his information to be of any necessary use to the Soviet Union ( the successful Teller-Ulam design was not discovered until 1951 ).

Most of the Eskimo peoples from the Aleutian Islands eastward to Greenland relied on the kayak for hunting a variety of prey — primarily seals, though whales and caribou were important in some areas.

Most famously, frigatebirds and skuas engage in this behaviour, although gulls, terns and other species will steal food opportunistically.

Most fossil gannets are from the Late Miocene or Pliocene, a time when the diversity of seabirds in general was much higher than today.

Most reliabilists maintain that a belief can be justified, or can constitute knowledge, even if the believer does not know about or understand the process that makes the belief reliable.

Most states chose an indirect procedure, usually involving a first round, voting to constitute an Electoral college which chose the actual deputies in a second round.

Most Romanians live in Romania, where they constitute a majority ; Romanians also constitute a minority in the countries that neighbour Romania.

Most Latter-day Saints assume that statements made by the President in sermons at a general conference of the Church or other formal church meeting would constitute statements made in the capacity of Church President.

Most abortions in Sweden are performed on women aged 20 – 24 years old, followed by the age group 25 – 30 years old, and teenage abortions ( 15 – 19 years old ) constitute the third largest group.

Most of the Slavs who constitute around 67 % of the population are Russian Orthodox ( a large part being Old Believer ).

Most of the practiconers are the tribal Jumma people who are found mainly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, where they constitute about 45 % of the area's population.

Most Buddhist schools are committed doctrinally to anātman ( Pali: anattā ), " non-self ," the teaching that none of the things perceived by the senses constitute a " self.

Most full-time Mormon missionaries constitute single young men in their late teens and early twenties, young women in their early twenties, and older couples no longer with children in the home.

Most towns constitute separate urban municipalities, while some have joined with surrounding rural municipalities.

Most shin-hanga landscape prints ( which constitute seventy percent of shin-hanga prints ) feature places that are obscure and tranquil.