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Most of France's wealth in the New World had come from its sugar plantations on Saint-Domingue and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, but production had fallen after a slave uprising.
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Most of the filmmakers in the category, including Besson, squirmed uncomfortably at being labeled, particularly in light of their forebears: France's New Wave.
The gritty That Most Important Thing: Love ( L ' important c ' est d ' aimer, 1974 ) garnered her first César Award ( France's equivalent of the Oscar ), a feat she repeated five years later, in her last collaboration with Sautet, for A Simple Story ( Une histoire simple, 1978 ).
Most Britons celebrated the storming of the Bastille in 1789, believing that France's absolute monarchy should be replaced by a more democratic form of government.
Most of the world's Mo-99 comes from only five research reactors: Canada's NRU, the Netherlands ' HFR, Belgium's BR-2, France's Osiris and South Africa's Safari-1.
Saint-Céneri's economy is largely based on tourism, its status as one of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (" France's Most Beautiful Villages ") and its tranquil environment attracting many visitors to the village.
The title is comparable to Spain's Catholic and France's Most Christian King.
Most, but not all, of these schools are accredited ( homologué ), contracted ( conventionné ) or directly managed ( gestion directe ) by the Agence pour l ' enseignement français à l ' étranger ( AEFE ), France's agency for French teaching abroad.
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Most Americans assumed he was rich because of the well-known " glorified façade of wealth and grandeur " at Mount Vernon.
Most cultures have at some point had a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewellery.
Most accounts agree that she found the barren floating island of Delos, still bearing its archaic name of Asterios, which was neither mainland nor a real island, and gave birth there, promising the island wealth from the worshippers who would flock to the obscure birthplace of the splendid god who was to come.
Most of the wealth accumulated by John XXII and Benedict XII had been lost during the extravagant pontificate of Clement VI.
Most socialists argue that capitalism unfairly concentrates power, wealth and profit, among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through exploitation, stifling technological and economic progress by maintaining an anarchy of production.
Most patrons were members of the nobility or the landed gentry who could use their local influence, prestige, and wealth to sway the voters.
Most tended, sooner or later, to resort to plundering monastic wealth and taxing the clergy.
Most academic experts agree on one aspect of the crash: It wiped out billions of dollars of wealth in one day, and this immediately depressed consumer buying.
Most of these endeavors have proven very successful for Native American tribal sovereigns and their tribal corporations, bringing wealth into the hands of Native Americans.
Most importantly, usury is the derivation of profit from biological time, which is linked to life, considered sacred, God-given and divine, leading to excessive worrying about money instead of God, thus subjugating a God-given sanctity of life to man-made artificial notions of material wealth.
Most definitions of class structure group people according to wealth, income, education, type of occupation, and membership in a specific subculture or social network.
Most of his prisoners were executed and their wealth was confiscated.
Most of Sutherland's wealth is in the form of the art collection put together by the first Duke's uncle, Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, which had been inherited by the Ellesmere line of the family.
Most Western girls are not debutantes ; that is reserved for girls of a certain class and wealth ; however, more girls have sweet sixteen parties which may involve formal dresses.
Most often, capital accumulation involves both a net addition and a redistribution of wealth, which may raise the question of who really benefits from it most.
Most of these suggest that the propensity to accumulate capital is associated with qualities such as an intelligent understanding of property ownership, a positive attitude towards money, the ability to seize a money-making opportunity, and a desire to acquire more wealth.
Most Novgorodian boyars wished to maintain the Republic's independence since if Novgorod was to be conquered, the boyars ' wealth would flow to the grand prince and his Muscovite boyars and the Novgorodians would fall into decline.
Most of their wealth was in livestock, vehicles, and shares of stock in corporate enterprises.
Most of his wealth came from inheritance.
Most of his wealth came from the results of his speculations with J. H. Whitehead of Shaw, Whitehead & Co. Horrocks Whitehead died in September 1846 at the age of 36.
Most of the houses in the city were rebuilt with this wealth.
Most of the revolts were an expression of those below who desired to share in the wealth, status, and well being of those more fortunate.
Most researchers calculate the wealth effect in real terms, so a deflation in price levels will increase personal wealth on average ( because the total wealth in society is positive, the difference between saving and debt is tangible assets, such as land ).
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Most commercially collected ambergris comes from The Bahamas in the Caribbean, particularly New Providence.
Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).
Most of the quotations ( 300 of 400 ) of the Old Testament in the New Testament, while differing more or less from the version presented by the Masoretic text, align with that of the Septuagint.
Most recently, Mike Piazza, then of the New York Mets, was hit in the head by a pitch from Julian Tavarez of the St. Louis Cardinals on September 10, 2005.
Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ), and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country.
Most branches of Christianity have historically held abortion to be generally wrong, referring to Old Testament passages such as Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 1, as well as New Testament passages concerning both Jesus and John the Baptist while they were in utero.
Most Christians consider that the Law was necessary as an intermediate stage, but once the crucifixion of Jesus occurred, adherence to civil and ceremonial Law was superseded by the New Covenant since the purpose of these laws was to dictate a proper relationship to God through the tabernacles and the temples in Jerusalem.
In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of " The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010 ".
Most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania was originally defined by an arc extending from the cupola of the courthouse in the city of New Castle.
Most congregations also sing hymns, read from the Old and New Testaments of Christian Scripture, hear the word of God proclaimed through sermon or other medium and extend an invitation to become Christ's Disciples.
Most Disciple congregations practice believer's baptism in the form of immersion, believing it to be the form used in the New Testament.
Most famously, he is the subject of the Boy Carrying a Sword of 1861 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ).
Most New Testament scholars believe Paul of Tarsus wrote this letter from Corinth, although information appended to this work in many early manuscripts ( e. g., Codices Alexandrinus, Mosquensis, and Angelicus ) state that Paul wrote it in Athens after Timothy had returned from Macedonia with news of the state of the church in Thessalonica (; ).
" At war's end, the New York Times named Hoover one of the " Ten Most Important Living Americans ".
Most temples of the Alpha et Omega and Stella Matutina closed or went into abeyance by the end of the 1930s, with the exceptions of two Stella Matutina temples: Hermes Temple in Bristol, which operated sporadically until 1970, and the Whare Ra in Havelock North, New Zealand, which operated regularly until its closure in 1978.
Sloane tied for first in the Variety Critics ' Poll for " Best New Play " and Orton came second for " Most Promising Playwright.
" Most recently, New York Times writer Anthony Tommasini commended Adams for his work conducting the American Composers Orchestra.
Most of the movie was shot in Austin, Texas, though it was set in New York City and San Antonio.
Most of the Anglican priests were Loyalists who fled to England, New York or Canada during the war.
Most New Jersey Mobil locations were converted to Lukoil stations.
Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Nonetheless, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Wildwoods Shore motel district in New Jersey in its 2006 list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places and included the Historic Route 66 Motels from Illinois to California on its 2007 list.
Most diplomatic relations are conducted by New Zealand on Niue's behalf.
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