Most of the present-day inhabitants of the Banda Islands are descended from migrants and plantation labourers from various parts of Indonesia, as well as from indigenous Bandanese.

Most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Puritan colonists, but there was also a small elite of Anglican " worthies " who were not involved in village life, who made their livings from estates, investments, and trade, and lived in mansions along " the Road to Watertown " ( today's Brattle Street, still known as Tory Row ).

Most inhabitants of Diego Garcia through the period from 1793 to 1971 were plantation workers, but also included Franco-Mauritian managers, Indo-Mauritian administrators, Mauritian and Seychellois contract employees, and in the late 19th Century, Chinese and Somali employees.

Most of the inhabitants live in the administrative center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Most residents of Asunción and virtually all rural inhabitants were illiterate.

Most of the Comyn castles in Moray, Aberdeen and Buchan were destroyed and their inhabitants killed.

Most inhabitants live in a city agglomeration on the French border, surrounding the capital of Saarbrücken.

Most of the Ebla palace tablets, which date from that period, are about economic matters ; they provide a good look into the everyday life of the inhabitants, as well as many important insights into the cultural, economic, and political life in northern Mesopotamia around the middle of the third millennium B. C.

Most inhabitants of Silesia today speak the national languages of their respective countries ( Polish, Czech, German ).

Most of the Bulgarian and Greek population are Christians, while most of the Turkish inhabitants of Thrace are Muslims.

Most of the current inhabitants are descended from the slaves brought to work on the Loyalist plantations, or from liberated Africans set free by the British navy after the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807.

Most references to the islands from occasional visitors comment on the lack of law and order and the lack of religiosity of the inhabitants.

Most people today live in settlements far larger than anything known in early times, while some areas, such as Kilmartin and many of the islands, such as Islay and Tiree may well have had as many inhabitants as they do today.

Most inhabitants were black indigenous Africans with a diversity of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, ranging from Shangaan and Makonde to Yao or Shona peoples.

Most inhabitants of these areas will consider dew points above oppressive.

Most of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, with a high life expectancy of over 80 years.

Most of the 4. 5 million inhabitants live in the north, and all but one of the island's few larger cites are located there.

Most of its inhabitants became refugees in bitterly cold weather during the Evacuation of East Prussia.

Most species are strictly freshwater inhabitants, but a considerable number are found in brackish water, such as roach and bream.

Most inhabitants of Miranda do Douro are either merchants or farmers.

Most of the colony's inhabitants originate from Corinth or Corcyra ( Corfu ).

Most of the German inhabitants were expelled.

Most houses had a square center room with other rooms attached to it, but a great variation in the size and materials used to build the houses suggest they were built by the inhabitants themselves.

Most of the inhabitants would not be allowed to return to their homes until after the Civil War ended in May 1865.

Most of the inhabitants of Knoxville, a mile away, moved to Roberta when the railroad arrived.

Most frogs can be classified as either prolonged or explosive breeders.

Most aquatic species have a totally submerged juvenile phase, and flowers are either floating or emergent.

Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.

Most of the slaves liberated by Abu Bakr were either women or old and frail men.

Most Amiga models can be upgraded either by direct CPU replacement or through expansion boards.

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

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

Most scholars hold that the Hebrew text underlying the Septuagint version is older than the Masoretic text and that either the Masoretic evolved either from this vorlage or from a closely related version.

" Rabbi Joseph Telushkin wrote, " Most of the great women in the Bible either are married to a great man or related to one.

Most traditional pharmaceutical drugs are relatively small molecules that bind to particular molecular targets and either activate or deactivate biological processes.

Most of these early compositions are either scored for piano solo or include a piano.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

Most games begin with a specific layout of cards, called a tableau, and the object is then either to construct a more elaborate final layout, or to clear the tableau and / or the draw pile or stock by moving all cards to one or more " discard " or " foundation " piles.

Most canals have a limit on height imposed either by bridges or by tunnels.

Most organized rides, for example Cyclosportives, Challenge Rides or reliability trials, and hill climbs include registration requirements and will provide information either through the mail or online concerning start times and other requirements.

Most quantitative calculations in modern quantum chemistry use either valence bond or molecular orbital theory as a starting point, although a third approach, Density Functional Theory, has become increasingly popular in recent years.

Most modern CVD processes are either LPCVD or UHVCVD.

Most modern semiconductor volatile memory is either Static RAM ( see SRAM ) or dynamic RAM ( see DRAM ).

writes: " Most famous horses are said to come either from Sindhu or Kamboja ; of the latter ( i. e the Kamboja ), the Indian epic Mahabharata speaks among the finest horsemen ".

Most divers have pre-dive and post-dive rituals that help them either maintain or regain focus.

Most of them can be classified as either key-value stores or document-oriented databases.

Most drawing media are either dry ( e. g. graphite, charcoal, pastels, Conté, silverpoint ), or use a fluid solvent or carrier ( marker, pen and ink ).

Most known fungal viruses have either double stranded DNA or RNA genomes.