Most countries in this second category share the difficulty of having many of the structures of a modern political and social system without the modern standards of performance required to make them effective.

Most of the political battles in the 1850s focused on the expansion of slavery, since most assumed that if slavery could not expand, it would wither and die.

Most of the cross-border lines are currently closed due to political problems.

Most aircraft hijackers intend to use the passengers as hostages, either for monetary ransom or for some political or administrative concession by authorities.

Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

Most political economists emphasize private property as well, in addition to power relations, wage labor, class, and the uniqueness of capitalism as a historical formation.

Most proxies for " grievance "-the theory that civil wars begin because of issues of identity, rather than economics-were statistically insignificant, including economic equality, political rights, ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization.

Most of these nations agreed at first though some became unwilling to fulfill their end of the bargain after the end of the Scourge, wanting to have nothing to do with the bureaucratic nation run on political conflict and powered by slavery.

Most of the deaths were caused by political terror campaigns and high prison camp mortality rates.

Most Gulag inmates were not political prisoners, although significant numbers of political prisoners could be found in the camps at any one time.

Most democracies have partly proportional electoral systems, where several political parties are proportionally represented in the national parliaments, in proportion to the total numbers of votes of the parties in the regional or national elections.

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 notably, the “ British exploited the political weakness of the Mughal state, and, while military activity was important at various times, the economic and administrative incorporation of local elites was also of crucial significance ”.

Most political responsibilities, however, were probably in Władysław's hands, with Jadwiga attending to cultural and charitable activities.

Most political activity between the wars was local, and this succeeded most among the Luo of Kenya, where progressive young leaders became senior chiefs.

Most deputies do not represent political parties as they are known in the West, and rarely form Western-style groups in the assembly.

Most industrial workers are organized by unions linked to one of the major political parties.

Most famously, Riggs Bank, in Washington D. C., was prosecuted and functionally driven out of business as a result of its failure to apply proper money laundering controls, particularly as it related to foreign political figures.

Most often it is assumed that it was a political decision, intended to bring Mieszko's state closer to the Czechs and to facilitate his activities in the Polabian Slavs area.

Most importantly, the experience of this revolution caused Lenin to conceive of the means of sponsoring communist revolution, through propaganda, agitation, a well-organized and disciplined but small political party, and through psychological manipulation of aroused masses.

Most of these stations broadcast various types of music format, and political discussions, news and phone-in programmes remain mostly the domain of the national broadcaster ( NBC ) which broadcasts nine radio services nationally ( in various Namibian languages, including German-the only full-time German service outside of Europe ), plus the new! Ha service, broadcasting to the San community in Tsumkwe.

Most hockey field dimensions were originally fixed using whole numbers of imperial measures.

Most measures met in practice in analysis ( and in many cases also in probability theory ) are Radon measures.

Most nations of Western Europe use more comprehensive measures, and in sharp contrast to the heated discussion in the U. S., abstinence is hardly discussed as an educational measure.

Most of the Nintendo platform-control measures were adopted by later manufacturers such as Sega, Sony, and Microsoft.

Pearson product moment correlation coefficient | Pearson / Spearman's rank correlation coefficient | Spearman correlation coefficients between X and Y are shown when the two variables ' ranges are unrestricted, and when the range of X is restricted to the interval ( 0, 1 ). Most correlation measures are sensitive to the manner in which X and Y are sampled.

Most privacy advocates view such measures as typical of a carceral state-where the state itself knows everything, and there is neither political nor consumer privacy nor even much medical privacy-a special concern is the gathering of biometrics.

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

Most modern vending machines are tested and designed to inhibit theft, with security measures resulting in designs similar in strength to safes.

Most accounting reform includes strict audit measures to verify that new standards are met.

Most of the measures in the second category were responses to pressure from anti-Peronist elements in the society, especially from the armed forces.

Most of these problems had already existed in some form during the 1970s, and the government had introduced several measures intended to correct the deficiencies.

Most research focuses on behavioral measures of self-regulation, such as amount of food or alcohol consumed in a setting.

Most notably, Shanghai party chief Chen Liangyu was dismissed in September 2006 due to a scandal involving moving money from the city's pension fund and opposing macroeconomic control measures issued by the central government.

Most of the NTB can be defined as protectionist measures, unless they are related to difficulties in the market, such as externalities and information asymmetries information asymmetries between consumers and producers of goods.

Most insurers charge a lower premium if it appears less likely the home will be damaged or destroyed: for example, if the house is situated next to a fire station or is equipped with fire sprinklers and fire alarms ; if the house exhibits wind mitigation measures, such as hurricane shutters ; or if the house has a security system and has insurer-approved locks installed.

Where explicit measures are used, they are more likely to be some kind of aggregate measure, for example, baseball and American Football players are rarely rewarded on the many specific measures available ( e. g., number of home runs ), but frequently receive bonuses for aggregate performance measures such as Most Valuable Player.

Most patients respond to conservative measures such as medications, rest, Chiropractic or physical therapy, and stretching.

Most of the headwaters flow over carboniferous coal measures overlain by glacial drift and fluvial gravels.

Most chose aggressive clinical measures.

Most of the heading was through soil, with some coal measures and iron ore deposits, the final tunnel being lined through most of its length.

Most churches regardless of color were seen to promote ballot measures that defined marriage as being between one man and one woman.