Most observers believed that without expansion slavery would eventually die out ; Lincoln argued this in 1845 and 1858.

Most observers agree that the elections themselves were relatively free and transparent and that the opposition parties garnered between two-thirds and three-quarters of the total vote.

Most observers familiar with horses and their capabilities estimate that Watt was either a bit optimistic or intended to underpromise and overdeliver ; few horses can maintain that effort for long.

Most observers thought that Landis waited because he did not want to rule against the two established leagues and their contracts.

Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well-defined regions: the Maracaibo lowlands in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east-west arc from the Colombian border along the Caribbean Sea, the wide Orinoco plains ( llanos ) in central Venezuela, and rank highly dissected Guiana highlands in the southeast.

Most international observers believed that these negotiations would lead to Kosovo's independence, subject to a period of international supervision.

Most observers rated Dewey as the winner of the debate, and a few days later Dewey defeated Stassen in Oregon.

Most observers felt that Kennedy won the debate, and Johnson was not able to expand his delegate support beyond the South.

Most observers expected Chiang's government to eventually fall in response to a Communist invasion of Taiwan, and the United States initially showed no interest in supporting Chiang's government in its final stand.

Most observers credited him with being scrupulously fair in presenting opinions of the agencies to the President, even when they conflicted with his own.

Most observers noted the personal animus between the bishop of Lincoln and the pope, but it did not stop the pope from agreeing to most of Grosseteste's demands about the way the English church ought to function.

Most recently, Claude " Buddy " Leach ran a populist campaign in the Louisiana gubernatorial election of 2003 that some observers compared to Huey Long's.

Most external observers agree that Hu presided over a decade of consistent economic growth, led China through the storm of the global financial crisis relatively unscathed, and increased China's international stature immensely.

Most observers, whether they were in favor of the Indian removal policy or not, realized that the passage of the act meant the inevitable removal of most Indians from the states.

Most political observers see the Crown Prince Party as having been at the pinnacle of their power in the 1980s and to have had their power reduced after 1989 for a number of reasons:

Most observers thought this was an unprecedented move, but Iacocca pointed to the government's bailouts of the airline and railroad industries.

Most ringside observers and boxing writers felt Walcott deserved the win, and so there was a rematch on June 25, 1948, when Louis prevailed once again, this time by a knockout in round 11.

Most observers, notably Gus and Clara Allen, are quite certain that Call is his father.

Most observers remarked that with the exception of Applefest, the annual “ Warwick Valley Bridal Trail ” in the downtown business and historical district has eclipsed all other one-day Village events in size and participation.

Most domestic and international observers consider his regime to be one of the most corrupt, ethnocentric, oppressive and undemocratic states in the world.

Most Churches of God are Sabbatarian observers of primitive, apostolic Christianity, as are some Noahide Churches of the Nazarene.

Most observers expected Chiang's government to eventually fall in response to a Communist invasion of Taiwan, and the United States initially showed no interest in supporting Chiang's government in its final stand.

Most observers believed that the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) would have preferred to see Chen Shui-bian replaced by an administration less sympathetic to Taiwan independence and more in favor of Chinese reunification.

Most observers believed that this was because the PRC has learned that any comments, especially in the form of threats, have been counterproductive.

Most modern CPUs " guess " which branch will be taken even before the calculation is complete, so that they can load up the instructions for the branch, or ( in some architectures ) even start to compute them speculatively.

Most handsets have security measures built into their firmware that protects them from repeated attempts to guess the unlock code.

Most parts of the unit have exotic and technical names, such as " asynchronous data compactor " or " phlamson joint " -- this again, allows for more room of error by initially trying to guess which part each name belongs to.

Most of the population lives in the western and northwestern parts of the country, where the two major cities, Yerevan and Gyumri ( which was called Aleksandropol ' during the tsarist period ), are located.

Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 84. 5 %), with Italian being second most common ( 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 2. 9 %).

Most of the population () speaks German ( 477, 093 or 87. 1 %) as their first language, Italian is the second most common ( 17, 847 or 3. 3 %) and Serbo-Croatian is the third ( 10, 645 or 1. 9 %).

Most of the population lives in coastal cities, although the hinterland is occupied at most in small towns and villages along the rivers.

Most of the population make their living through fishing.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 129, 592 or 77. 8 %), with Italian being second most common ( 9, 049 or 5. 4 %) and French being third ( 4, 280 or 2. 6 %).

Most of its ethnically and linguistically diverse population lives in the south, with densities ranging from 54 persons per square kilometers in the Logone River basin to 0. 1 persons in the northern B. E. T.

Most of the rest of the population belong to other Afro-Asiatic-speaking communities of the Cushitic branch.

Most of Guatemala's population is rural, though urbanization is accelerating.

Most of the population () speak French ( 128, 622 or 72. 3 %), with English being second most common ( 7, 853 or 4. 4 %) and Spanish third ( 7, 462 or 4. 2 %).

Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.

Most of its members came from the middle class and tended to represent the Parisian population.

Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth.

Most of the population is of European origin, mainly Spanish, British, German and other European nationalities.

Most of its German population fled to the " mainland " of Germany during the war.

Most people had been evacuated but the majority of the population became homeless.

Most of the population () speaks French ( 98, 424 or 78. 8 %), with German being second most common ( 5, 365 or 4. 3 %) and Italian being third ( 4, 976 or 4. 0 %).

Most of the Jewish population has left to Israel and Venezuela.

Most of the population fled to Germany or was killed during or after the war, while the rest was subject to a " nationality verification ", organized by the communist government of Poland.

Most of the islands ' native population ( 90 %- 95 %) died from Spanish diseases or married non-Chamorro settlers under Spanish rule.

Most of the population remained rather isolated on the island, allowing the dialects time to develop independently of those on the North American continent.

Most of the population is concentrated on the northern and eastern coast of this island where Calapan and Puerto Galera are located.

Most brown bears have about 2 percent genetic material from polar bears, but one population residing in the Alexander Archipelago has between 5 percent and 10 percent polar bear genes, indicating more frequent and recent mating.

Most of this urban increase was attributable to migration rather than to natural growth of the urban population.