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 ancient scientists were polymaths by today's standards.

Most of today's quartz clocks and watches use 32, 768 Hz quartz tuning forks for timekeeping.

Most of today's Ossetians are Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Most of today's desktop computers have one of the three major operating systems available.

Most scholars believe this culture is not derived from the Changbinian, but was brought across the Strait by the ancestors of today's Taiwanese aborigines, speaking early Austronesian languages.

Most historians prefer to use the term " Frankish Kingdoms " or " Frankish Realm " to refer to the area covering parts of today's Germany and France from the 5th to the 9th century.

Most of the today's buildings on the wharf including the Bay Street Theatre were built during this time.

Most of today's castle was constructed in the 18th century, following plans from Vauban.

Most of these became extinct before they were recorded, so the only trace of these ancient dialects is some words borrowed into local dialects of today's Croatia.

Most of today's sites handle buyer and seller payments, and usually deduct a small commission only after the sale is completed.

Most of today's Jyväskylä was built after the Continuation war, when refugees from Karelia and other parts of the country moved to the city and housing was badly needed.

Most of today's large industrial facilities such as the Kremikovtsi steelworks and the Chervena Mogila engineering works were built under Zhivkov.

Most of these solutions use stylus-based haptic rendering, where the user interfaces to the virtual world via a tool or stylus, giving a form of interaction that is computationally realistic on today's hardware.

Most of today's guitar pick shapes were created by the company that made the first plastic pick in 1922, D ' Andrea Picks.

Most of today's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e. g., Fox Searchlight ) or genre films ( e. g., Sony's Screen Gems ); several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010.

Most vehicles in today's collections are of Swiss origin.

Most of the American Flyer-branded product sold by Lionel, LLC today is reissues of 1950s designs utilizing refurbished old Gilbert tooling, decorated in traditional road names and paint schemes used by Gilbert, as well as an influx of some of today's modern railroad heralds.

Most commonly, investors are risk-averse and today's price is below the expectation, remunerating those who bear the risk.

Most of today's appliances produce sound pressure levels between 45 and 120 decibels at ten feet.

Most of today's Mexican cuisine is based on pre-Hispanic traditions, including the Aztecs, Maya, and the Indigenous peoples of Mexico combined with culinary trends introduced by Spanish colonists.

Most of today's major pharmaceutical companies were founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Most of today's actors on stage, television, and film owe much to Stanislavski's system.

Most of their knowledge was lost after the disaster, and today's Spellbinders only have a limited understanding of the science their technology is based on.

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 sectors of the economy reported declines, with manufacturing dropping 25. 6 % as of January 2009, and consumer goods sales dropping 3. 1 %.

Most businesses can claim back the GST, HST and QST they pay, and so effectively it is the final consumer who pays the tax.

Most pistachios are now picked by machine and the shells remain unstained, making dyeing unnecessary except to meet ingrained consumer expectations.

Most are used for consumer devices such as wristwatches, clocks, radios, computers, and cellphones.

Most consumer and small business laser printers use a toner cartridge that combines the photoreceptor ( sometimes called " photo conductor unit " or " imaging drum ") with the toner supply bin, the waste toner hopper, and various wiper blades.

Most consumer inkjet printers, including those from Canon, Hewlett-Packard, and Lexmark, use the thermal inkjet process.

Most commercial and industrial inkjet printers and some consumer printers ( those produced by Epson and Brother Industries ) use a piezoelectric material in an ink-filled chamber behind each nozzle instead of a heating element.

Most current consumer digital cameras use a Bayer filter mosaic in combination with an optical anti-aliasing filter to reduce the aliasing due to the reduced sampling of the different primary-color images.

Most night markets feature individual stalls selling a mixture of food, clothing, and consumer goods.

Most consumer desktop liquid crystal displays have luminances of 200 to 300 cd / m < sup > 2 </ sup >; the sRGB spec for monitors targets 80 cd / m < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Most of their consumer boxes are manufactured by Sanmina-SCI Corporation to EchoStar specifications.

Most consumer dishwashers use a 75 ° C thermostat in the sanitizing process.

Most consumer dishwashers use 75 ° C rather than 83 ° C for reasons of burn risk, energy consumption, total cycle time, and possible damage to plastic items placed inside the dishwasher.

Most of these were connected to the set being controlled by wires, but the Philco Mystery Control ( 1939 ) was a battery-operated low-frequency radio transmitter, thus making it the first wireless remote control for a consumer electronics device.

Most home analog video equipment record a signal in ( roughly ) composite format: LaserDiscs store a true composite signal, while consumer videotape formats ( including VHS and Betamax ) and lesser commercial and industrial tape formats ( including U-Matic ) use modified composite signals ( generally known as " color-under ").

Most academic experts agree on one aspect of the crash: It wiped out billions of dollars of wealth in one day, and this immediately depressed consumer buying.

A coalition of environmental groups filed a complaint against Nestlé to the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards after Nestlé took out full-page advertisements in October 2008 claiming that " Most water bottles avoid landfill sites and are recycled ", " Nestlé Pure Life is a healthy, eco-friendly choice " and that " Bottled water is the most environmentally responsible consumer product in the world ".

Most cameras read only part of the code ; typically, only the film speed is read, and some cameras aimed at the consumer market only read enough bits to tell apart the most common film speeds.

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 consumer versions of the game completely lack the secret islands.

Most cocaine is grown and processed in South America, particularly in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and smuggled into the United States and Europe, the United States being the worlds largest consumer of cocaine.

Most surround sound recordings are created by film production companies or video game producers ; however some consumer camcorders have such capability either built-in or available separately.

Most consumer VCRs use the known black level of the vertical blanking pulse to set their recording levels.

Most consumer camcorders are sold with basic video editing software, so users can easily create their own DVDs, or share their edited footage online.