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 observers guess the population of Nogales, Sonora, at roughly 300, 000. International commerce is a big part of Nogales ’ economy.

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.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

Most species seem to prefer a ready-made hollow such as a deserted mouse nest, a bird house, or the hole made by a woodpecker ; ;

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 importantly, the ' Altaic ' languages do not seem to share a common basic vocabulary of the type normally present in cases of genetic relationship.

They go on to add, " Most contemporaries seem in fact to have held him in high esteem, and he certainly inspired loyalty in a way his brother could not ".

Most scholars hold that Ezra lived during the rule of Artaxerxes I, though some have difficulties with this assumption: Nehemiah and Ezra " seem to have no knowledge of each other ; their missions do not overlap ; and no reflection of Ezra's activity appears in Jerusalem of Nehemiah.

Most felids seem to be able to purr, vibrating the muscles in their larynx to produce a distinctive buzzing sound.

Most commentators seem to agree that Matthew, alone among the gospels, alternates five blocks of narrative with five of discourse, marking each off with the phrase " When Jesus had finished ..." ( see Five Discourses of Matthew ).

Most scholars reject the historicity of the later legends of King Arthur, which seem to be set in this period, but some such as John Morris see it as evidence behind which may lie a plausible grain of truth.

Most KPRP leaders and rank-and-file seem to have been either Khmer Krom, or ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia.

Most Paranthropus species seem almost certainly not to have used language nor to have controlled fire, although they are directly associated with the latter at Swartkrans.

" Most of Gilliam's movies include plot-lines that seem to occur partly or completely in the characters ' imaginations, raising questions about the definition of identity and sanity.

Most of the prisoners seem uninterested in escape, but eventually THX and SEN decide to find an exit.

Most culinary experts seem to consider it to be clarified butter.

Most sources in condemning the practice seem to be referring to a wide, slow, perceptible oscillation in pitch, usually associated with intense emotion, whereas the ideal for modern vibrato, and possibly in earlier times as well, was to imitate the natural timbre of the adult singing voice, from which a measure of vibrato ( it has since been shown ) is rarely absent.

Most accounts seem to indicate that, unlike her other two husbands, Helen didn't love Deiphobus and decided she would rather return to Menelaus.

Most manuscripts seem to have been produced by lay artists in this period.

Most guns seem to respond well to a light, repeatable grip that allows the gun to vibrate the same way from shot to shot.

*" It shall be lawful for His Most Gracious Majesty by His Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm, issued within six months after the passing of this Act, to make such alteration in the style and titles at present appertaining to the Crown as to His Majesty may seem fit ";

Most vagrants that reach western Europe seem to belong to the more northern and strongly migratory tundrius, only considered distinct since 1968.

Most of the bishops and barons that judged the case seem to have felt that the appeal to Rome was made to avoid having to answer an accusation that St-Calais knew was true.

Most explanations since the album's release seem to lean towards the latter ; when Canibus ' new official website, MicClub. net, appeared online towards the end of 2002, the summary of C True Hollywood Stories in the " Merchandise " section called it " an introspective look into the ultimate fan " Stan's " take on the current state of hip hop ".

But an article in The Sun newspaper and an episode of the TV series " Most Haunted " seem to be the only sources for this so far.

Most living genera would seem to have evolved throughout the Oligocene to Miocene with the waders perhaps a bit later ; see the genus accounts for the fossil record.

Most of the scrolls seem to have been hidden in the caves during the turmoil of the First Jewish Revolt, though some of them may have been deposited earlier.