Most of his surviving clocks are longcase clocks being of universally high quality incorporating such features as long going, frequent use of deadbeat escarpments, six spoke wheels, high count trains, repeating, enclosed movements, and a general high standard of workmanship at least equal to that of London makers of the time.

Most of a longcase clock's height is used to hold the long pendulum and weights.

Most longcase clocks are cable-driven, meaning that the weights are suspended by cables.

Most of the mechanical clocks are now sold as antiquities as many factories were shut down after First World War and after Second World War.

Most of today's quartz clocks and watches use 32, 768 Hz quartz tuning forks for timekeeping.

Most are used for consumer devices such as wristwatches, clocks, radios, computers, and cellphones.

Most municipalities-despite originally supporting time zone unification at their annual meetings-responded to the government initiative with overt resistance, leading to an amazing popular stand-off where Hamlets ran clocks at their preferred time and schools and airports frequently operated on another.

Most modern clocks have the numbers 1 through 12 printed at equally spaced intervals around the periphery of the face with the 12 at the top, indicating the hour, and on many models, sixty dots or lines evenly spaced in a ring around the outside of the dial, indicating minutes and seconds.

Most binary clocks are digital, although analog varieties exist.

Most of the gross inaccuracy of verge and foliot clocks was not due to the escapement itself, but to the foliot oscillator.

Most clocks were rebuilt with their foliots replaced by pendula, to the extent that it is difficult to find original verge and foliot clocks intact today.

Most fusee clocks include a ' winding stop ' mechanism to prevent the mainspring and fusee from being wound up too far, possibly breaking the chain.

Most modern projection clocks use a red LED-based projector, and also an ordinary LED or LCD display to enable time reading when ambient light is too bright for the projection to be seen.

Most digital clocks display the hour of the day in 24 hour format ; in the United States and a few other countries, a more commonly used hour sequence option is 12 hour format ( with some indication of AM or PM ).

Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.

Most assuredly ideas are invaluable.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

Most women, in this age of freezers, shop for the entire week on week-ends, when prices are lower.

Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.

Most beakers are graduated in cubic centimeters ( cc. ), making it necessary to convert the result to cubic inches.

Most seams are sewn with backstitch, especially on curved, slanted or loose edges.

Most floor battens are glued and screwed to the flooring.

Most of the data used are from Groth's Chemische Krystallographie.

Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.

Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.

The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.

1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.

Most Jewish mothers are determined to exercise vigilance over the social and sexual lives of their daughters by keeping them home.

Most members of the U.S. Senate, because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they can.

Most library budgets are hopelessly inadequate.

Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.

Most of the female faces are new, or at least not too familiar.

Most references to " amoebas " or " amoebae " are to amoeboids in general rather than to the specific genus Amoeba.

Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters.

Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.

Most salamanders are under long.

Most striking indeed is this beyond-normal ability to put a finger on `` pre-conscious '' moods and to clarify them.

Most striking was the disparity in wages.

Most striking was the productivity surge in capital, as Milken … and others took the vast sums trapped in old-line businesses and put them back into the markets.

Most henges do not contain stone circles ; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury ( and to a lesser extent Stonehenge ) among the greatest of such sites.

Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).

Most striking was her love for Hitler.

Most western countries partially legalized striking in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

Verses by Angilbert, who fought the battle on the side of Lothar are cited by historian Eleanor Shipley Duckett as the " Most striking of all these Latin records of the battle ".

Most species are strongly sexually dimorphic ; only the male has the striking plumage patterns characteristic of the genus, though the females share the white or red rump patches.

Most phrases now considered clichéd were originally regarded as striking, but lost their force through overuse.

Most were young men, with dreams of owning their land or striking it rich quick would essentially sell years of their labor in exchange for passage to the islands.

Most are dull black flies, and are usually small to medium in size,, and many species have striking wing patterns.

Most striking to Cole was Europe's tallest active volcano, Mount Etna ( Regarding the title: " Etna " is the more common spelling in the present day, but " Aetna " was a common nineteenth-century variant ).

Most striking were the " beavertail " observation cars of the 1930s and the " Skytop Lounge " observation cars by industrial designer Brooks Stevens in the 1940s.

Most notably, Joshi points to Hugh Elliott's Modern Science and Materialism, a 1919 nonfiction book that mentions the " extremely limited " senses of humans, such that of the many " aethereal waves " striking the eyes, " the majority cannot be perceived by the retina at all ".

In striking contrast to the Church of the Most Holy Annunciation, which occupied only a small section of the Collegio Romano, the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola took up a quarter of the entire block when it was completed.

Most striking are the comparisons between the Kincaid and Angel sites, which include analogous site plans, stylistic similarities in artifacts, and geographic proximity.

Most of the Mizo musical instruments used at the time of festivals and dances are striking instruments such as different types of Khuang and Dar, Bengbung, Seki, Talhkhuang.

Most striking in this regard is González Prada ’ s essay " Our Indians " included in his Horas de lucha after 1924.

Most uses of treads are for their striking appearance.

Most are grown for the ornamental foliage while others bear striking inflorescences.

Most striking in today ’ s skyline is the development known locally as the Chinamauer (“ China Wall ”), a roughly 300 m-long block of maisonette flats.

Most striking was how comfortable these Italians seemed in their appropriated shoes, adopting a foreign culture and somehow making it theirs.

Most striking are stripes on the side-on each side one beige and below a black stripe.