Most of the music was religious, but the purpose of communal singing was not primarily spiritual.

Most removals of the clitoris occur as female genital mutilation, defined by the World Health Organisation as " all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

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 modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

* Most of the Polytheistic religious deities and texts of Pre-Western Americas, Oceania, and Africa, were destroyed by Christian missionaries and their converts.

Most of the manuscripts were created by Christian monks, who may well have been torn between the desire to record their native culture and their religious hostility to pagan beliefs resulting in some of the gods being euhemerized.

Most Jewish Israelis classify themselves as " secular " ( hiloni ), " traditional " ( masorti ), " religious " ( dati ) or Haredi.

Most outers target those who support decisions and further policy, both religious and secular, which discriminate against gay people while they themselves live a clandestine gay existence.

Most presidents have been formal members of a particular church or religious body, and a specific affiliation can be assigned to every president from Garfield on.

Most claim that men and women have complementary, yet different roles in religious life, resulting in different religious obligations.

Most Iranians had a deep respect for the Shi ' a clergy or Ulema, and tended to be religious, traditional, and alienated from the process of Westernization pursued by the Shah.

Most countries of the Middle East and North Africa maintain a dual system of secular courts and religious courts, in which the religious courts mainly regulate marriage and inheritance.

Most of the early Uyghur literary works were translations of Buddhist and Manichean religious texts, but there were also narrative, poetic, and epic works apparently original to the Uyghurs.

Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece.

Most major religious groups are represented including Jewish, Islamic, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, Christian and Catholic.

Most major religious festivals of the main communities are included in the list of national holidays.

Most Reconstructionist Jews reject theism, and instead define themselves as religious naturalists.

Most of the villages have their own temple, mosque or church depending on the local religious following.

Most of them have a church and a " Casa do Povo " ( people's house ), where the village's summer romarias or religious festivities are usually held.

Most channels that serve the entire market are receivable in Kalamazoo, including WWMT, WOOD-TV ( NBC ), WXMI ( Fox ), WZPX ( Ion ) and WLLA ( religious ).

Most of them start wearing a white tudung ( Malaysian version of the Muslim headscarf or hijab ) upon entering secondary school, for religious reasons.

Most of the history of Llandaff centres on its role as a religious site.

Most Ancient Egyptian festivals were religious, but others were not such as one festival established by Rameses III to celebrate his victory over the Libyans.

Most of the buildings in the " suburb " date from this time.

Most autonomous buildings are designed to use insulation, thermal mass and passive solar heating and cooling.

Most of the route is lined with tall office buildings along both sides, affording a view of the parade for thousands of office workers who create the snowstorm-like jettison of shredded paper products that characterize the parade.

Most downtown buildings range from two to five stories in height and face the traditional corridor of travel through town, Mitchell Street, the city's tree-lined main street.

Most of the city's high-rise commercial and residential buildings can be found close to the waterfront.

Most of Dartmouth's buildings are designed in the Georgian American colonial style, a theme which has been preserved in recent architectural additions.

Most of the computer labs and many classrooms are located in the basements ( called the Libra Complex ) of the concrete-block buildings.

Most insulated buildings that utilize concrete block, brick, adobe, stone, veneers or some combination thereof feature interior insulation in the form of fiberglass batts between wooden wall studs or in the form of rigid insulation boards covered with plaster or drywall.

Most of the rest of the buildings match the original style with a few exceptions.

Most of the buildings are named for historical Paramount executives or the many great artists that worked at Paramount over the years.

Most urban buildings are steel and concrete structures designed ( not always successfully ) to resist both typhoons and earthquakes.

Most of these systems are installed on multi-family apartment buildings and meet a portion of the hot water needs of an estimated 50 – 60 million households in China.

Most of the Trinity ’ s major buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Most buildings are in the Romanesque style, although some dormitories, engineering buildings, and physical sciences labs are of various Modernist styles ( especially two large Brutalist dormitories at the campus ' northern edge ) that sharply contrast with the predominantly red-brick campus.

Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into sections, or protects or delineates a space in the open air.

Most of the buildings of the fair were designed in the classical style of architecture.

Most buildings ( and most clients ) are satisfied with just two orders.

Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and then employ his army of 500 clients to put the fire out before much damage had been done.

Most sirens are mounted on poles that are usually around 30 to 50 feet off the ground, on top of buildings, or sometimes on tall structures, such as water towers.

Most buildings are one-storey only.

Most of the residential buildings on Roosevelt Island are rental buildings.

Most of the old Skunk Works buildings in Burbank were demolished in the late 1990s to make room for parking lots.

Most of the main buildings are centred around the western region of the town.