Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

Most meteoritic material, by the time it reaches the Earth's surface, has been reduced to dust or to spherules of ablated material in its passage through the atmosphere.

Most of us remember and think of the Wagner-Peyser Act in its historical sense, as a major milestone in the development of public placement services.

Most nuts consist of the richly packaged storage kernel and its thick, adherent, brown covering -- the seedcoat.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

Most of Aristotle's work is probably not in its original form, since it was most likely edited by students and later lecturers.

Most of Armenia is drained by the Araks or its tributary, the Hrazdan, which flows from Lake Sevan.

Most commonly, bandwidth refers to the 3-dB bandwidth, that is, the frequency range within which the spectral density ( in W / Hz or V < sup > 2 </ sup >/ Hz ) is above half its maximum value ( or the spectral amplitude, in V or V / Hz, is more than 70. 7 % of its maximum ); that is, above − 3 dB relative to the peak.

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 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 these institutes focus on a form of economics called macroeconomics which keeps its eyes on things such as inflation: the rate at which money loses its value over time ; growth: how much money a government has and how quickly it accrues money ; unemployment, and rates of trade between other countries.

Most of its production is in the upper metre or so of the soil column, where the cosmogenic neutron flux is still sufficiently strong.

Most definitions of Continental Europe extend the boundaries of the continent to its standard boundaries, the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains.

Most frogs identify prey by movement, and vision appears to be the primary method by which the cane toad detects prey ; however, the cane toad can also locate food using its sense of smell.

The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads ; others show it with two or even just one ; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100.

Most imperial powers had not foreseen a need to prepare their colonies for independence ; for example, Britain had given limited self-rule to India and Sri Lanka, while treating British Somaliland as little more than a trading post, while all major decisions for French colonies were made in Paris and Belgium prohibited any self-government up until it suddenly granted independence to its colonies in 1960.

Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, its geography being perfect for romance writers ; Arthurian scholar Norris J.

Most of the villages that in 1932 were suddenly included in the new Chianti Classico area added in Chianti to their name-such as Greve in Chianti which amended its name in 1972.

Most tourists visit the Dominican Republic on account of its beaches, but there is an expanding eco-tourism and outdoor activity sector, focused on the country's mountains and wildlife.

Most DJ mixers now include a beat-counter which analyzes the tempo of an incoming sound source and displays its tempo in Beats Per Minute ( BPM ), which may assist with beatmatching analog sound sources.

Most of these, including the small code size and small data set size, were understood at the time of its publication in 1984.

Most of its Amazonian territory was never under its effective control.

Most psychologists and neuroscientists have not accepted these arguments — nevertheless it is clear that the relationship between a physical entity such as light and a perceptual quality such as color is extraordinarily complex and indirect, as demonstrated by a variety of optical illusions such as neon color spreading.

Most of the evidence for Carausius ' reign comes from his coinage, which was of generally fine quality.

Most lexicographers started dismissing him as a " polygraph " who composed too many works, a Vielschreiber for whom quantity came before quality.

Most Munich residents enjoy a high quality of life.

Most oolong teas, especially those of fine quality, involve unique tea plant cultivars that are exclusively used for particular varieties.

Most experienced and skillful players greatly prefer feathers, and serious tournaments or leagues are always played using feather shuttlecocks of the highest quality.

Most mobile phones have a Firmware Over The Air firmware upgrade capability for much the same reasons ; some may even be upgraded to enhance reception or sound quality, illustrating the fact that firmware is used at more than one level in complex products ( in a CPU-like microcontroller versus in a digital signal processor, in this particular case ).

Most Australians live close to the coast and have ready access to high quality seafood restaurants and local fish and chip shops.

Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by China's ancient emperors.

Most later Chinese ceramics, even of the finest quality, were made on an industrial scale, thus very few individual potters or painters are known.

Most people undergoing sterilization experience no change in sexual activity, quality of marital relationships or work-related behavior.

Most manufacturing models will have a forensic component that monitors early failures to improve quality or efficiencies.

Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated or not, were written on parchment ( most commonly of calf, sheep, or goat skin ), but most manuscripts important enough to illuminate were written on the best quality of parchment, called vellum.

Most of Petts Wood was built in the early 20th Century by the developer Basil Scruby together with Master builder, Noel Rees, as a high quality estate in a rural setting only a short train journey from the city, with the east side being built first: it is often quoted in sociological textboooks as a classic piece of 1920s town planning, as the first building in place was the station, and the rest of the town developed from there.

Most modern deathmatch games features a high level of graphic violence ; a normal modern implementation will contain high quality human characters being killed, e. g. moderate amounts of blood, screams of pain and death, exploding bodies with associated gibs are common.

Most of these divisions later folded after expensively producing several games that were heavy in " full-motion video " content, but light in the quality of gameplay.

Most of Montara's streets were dirt or gravel until the early 1990s ; the rustic quality of the town has not been lost since the streets were oiled or paved ( only some of the streets are actually paved ).

Most recently computer models have been used to predict product quality by achieving a compromise between drying rate, energy consumption, and grain quality.

Most languages, such as Finnish and Spanish, do not have unstressed vowel reduction ; in these languages vowels in unstressed syllables have nearly the same quality as those in stressed syllables.

Most of the Fleischer color public domain films have been widely available on video since the 1980s, often on inexpensive ( and poor quality ) videotapes sold in supermarkets and department stores as parts of collections of other public domain cartoons.

Most significantly, the variation between supposedly identical cymbals is noticeably reduced, assuming adequate quality control.

Most of the entry level and later models focused on features such as better quality still pictures ( see below ), off loading the same via Sony Memory Sticks, and more programming selections.

Most schools focus on their respective regions, and many graduates remain in the region in which the school is located, though the relatively uniform quality of the law schools affords greater geographic mobility to graduates.