* Most monocots are unable to thicken their stems once they have formed, since they lack the cylindrical meristem present in other angiosperm groups.

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

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

Most oculocutaenous albinistic humans appear white or very pale as the melanin pigments responsible for brown, black, and some yellow colorations are not present.

Most legal systems require sufficient notice to be given to all directors of these meetings, and that a quorum must be present before any business may be conducted.

According to Gislason and Craig ( 2005 ): " Most thermodynamic data come from calorimetry ..." According to Kondepudi ( 2008 ): " Calorimetry is widely used in present day laboratories.

Most epistolary novels present the documents without questions about how they were gathered.

Most terrestrial helium present today is created by the natural radioactive decay of heavy radioactive elements ( thorium and uranium ), as the alpha particles emitted by such decays consist of helium-4 nuclei.

Most regulations permit a threshold level of lubricant that may be present in waste streams and companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually in treating their waste waters to get to acceptable levels.

Most states have at most one monarch at any given time, although a regent may rule when the monarch is a minor, not present, or otherwise incapable of ruling.

) Most of the Savage Land races have their origin from a group of primitive ape men who seems to have escaped the Celestial experiments whose influence is present in all modern Homo sapiens.

Most speakers spoke Old East Norse in what is present day Denmark and Sweden.

Most Polygonaceae are perennial herbaceous plants with swollen nodes, but trees, shrubs and vines are also present.

Most commonly due to improper surface treatment before application and inherent moisture / dampness being present in the substrate.

Most sedevacantists hold the Holy Orders conferred with the present revised rites of the Catholic Church to be invalid due to defect both of intention and form.

Most of the member congregations of the UUA are in the United States and Canada, but the UUA has also admitted congregations from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Pakistan ( although UUA policy appears at present to be against admitting any new congregations from outside North America, rather having them form their own national bodies and having these bodies join the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ).

Most of the amalgamations took place in 1967 and the municipality in its present form was created in 1971.

Most nutrients, with the exception of the lack of nitrogen in desert soils, are present in the soil but may not be available to plants due to extremes of pH.

Most ESWL is carried out when the stone is present near the renal pelvis.

Most listening rooms present a more or less reflective environment, depending on size, shape, volume, and furnishings.

Most of the rocks forming the surface of the present High Atlas were deposited under the ocean at that time.

Most of the bishops present accepted the letter, proclaiming that Peter spoke through Agatho.

Most present between the ages of 30 and 50 years.

Most artists of the period ( like Bruegel ) are described as Flemish, even though they might have been born in the present day Netherlands.

Most of their former members are now included in the bunch of bagworm genera whose relationships must be regarded as undetermined at present.

Most cardinals are already bishops at the time of their appointment, the majority being archbishops of important archdioceses or patriarchs, and a substantial portion of the rest already titular archbishops serving in the Vatican.

Most Eastern Orthodox churches allow varying amounts of formalised laity and / or lower clergy influence on the choice of bishops.

Most bishops had a different attitude toward freemen and nobles.

Most historians agree that the emperors called the councils to force the Christian bishops to resolve divisive issues and reach consensus.

In the Anglican Communion, archbishops are styled " The Most Reverend " and addressed as " Your Grace ", while bishops are styled " The Right Reverend " and addressed as " My Lord " or " Your Lordship ".

In some countries, this usage is followed also by the Roman Catholic Church, but in others no distinction is made and " The Most Reverend " and " Your Excellency " are used for archbishops and bishops alike.

It is paired with a modifier or noun for some offices in some religious traditions: e. g., Roman Catholic bishops are usually styled The Most Reverend ( reverendissimus ); Anglican bishops are styled The Right Reverend ; some Reformed churches have used The Reverend Mister as a style for their clergy.

** In some countries of the Commonwealth, such as the United Kingdom ( but not in Northern Ireland ), only archbishops are styled The Most Reverend and other bishops are styled The Right Reverend.

Most of England believed that Parliament had done enough to curb the power of King Charles I, but the radicals in Parliament ( the extremist Puritans ) and the radicals around the country ( again, extremist Puritans ) wanted to reform the Church of England by getting rid of the bishops ( and all other things with the semblance of Catholicism ) and by establishing the Puritans ' method of worship as the standard.

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.

By a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Ceremonial of 31 December 1930 the Holy See granted bishops of the Roman Catholic Church the title of Most Reverend Excellency ( Latin, Excellentia Reverendissima ).

Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children .” " A terrible picture of the decay both of clerical morality and of all sense of anything like vocation is drawn in the writings of St. Peter Damian, particularly in his Liber Gomorrhianus.

The presiding bishops of the church are: Most Rev.

Most surviving art from the Medieval period was religious in focus, often funded by the Church, powerful ecclesiastical individuals such as bishops, communal groups such as abbeys, or wealthy secular patrons.

Most of the bishops, pastors, and churches stayed with Campbell, and this branch remains the largest entity of the two with approximately 500 churches worldwide.

Most bishops in Ireland and Britain were not recognized by Rome because their apostolic succession was uncertain and they condoned non-Roman practices.

Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children .” Then in the 12th century the Western Church declared that Holy Orders were not merely a prohibitive but a diriment canonical impediment to marriage, making a marriage by priests invalid and not merely forbidden.

However, in 1721 Tsar Peter I abolished completely the patriarchate and so the Church effectively became a department of the government, ruled by a Most Holy Synod composed of senior bishops and lay bureaucrats appointed by the Tsar himself.

Most Catholics were descendants of Irish immigrants and the church was mostly led by Irish-born priests and bishops.

* Apostolic Protonotaries de numero ( and other superior prelates of the offices of the Roman curia who are not bishops and who, as indicated above, may be addressed as Most Reverend Monsignor ) have the same dress as other Apostolic Protonotaries, but wear the mantelletta in choir and a black biretta with a red tuft.

Most of the first bishops of the American Church were consecrated here to fill the ever multiplying dioceses necessitated by the great waves of immigration and nation building that were emblematic of the 19th century.

Most titular bishops hold the title to a titular see.

Most of these dioceses and parishes are members of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America ( ECUSA ), while others are under the jurisdiction of overseas bishops from Uganda, Kenya, Bolivia and other countries.