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 traffic lights in Cairo appear not to function, but rather intersections are staffed by policemen who use subtle finger movements to indicate which cars may move.

Most prominent amongst them are the Naga fight for Greater Nagaland, the Chin struggle for a unified Chinland and other self-determinist movements by the ethnic indigenous peoples of the erstwhile Assam both under the British and post-British Assam under India.

Most civil rights movements relied on the technique of civil resistance, using nonviolent methods of struggle, to achieve their aims.

Most of the women attending the convention were active in Quaker or evangelical Methodist movements.

Most inexpensive and medium-priced watches used mainly for timekeeping are electronic watches with quartz movements.

Most watches intended mainly for timekeeping today have electronic movements, with mechanical hands on the watch face indicating the time.

Most quartz movements are primarily electronic but are geared to drive mechanical hands on the face of the watch in order to provide a traditional analog display of the time, which is still preferred by some consumers.

Finally, on 6 April 1793, the Convention created the Committee of Public Safety ( later headed by Maximilien Robespierre ), and was given a monumental task: “ To deal with the radical movements of the Enragés, food shortages and riots, the revolt in the Vendée and in Brittany, recent defeats of its armies, and the desertion of its commanding general .” Most notably, the Committee of Public Safety instated a policy of terror, and the guillotine began to fall on perceived enemies of the republic at an ever-increasing rate, beginning the period known today as the Reign of Terror.

Most species stay within their breeding range all year, but make short seasonal movements ; many individuals of the Ptarmigan ( called Rock Ptarmigan in America ) and Willow Grouse ( called Willow Ptarmigan in America ) migrate hundreds of kilometers.

Most harriers are placed in the genus Circus, the scientific name arising from the circling movements female and male make when courting.

Most of her statuettes were rigidly crafted and do not exhibit any expression of movements or dynamism ; this design was made to make them last a long time rather than to express any form of functions or actions she is associated with.

Most movements can be done with 12 drawings per second, which is called animating " on twos ".

" Carpenter also predicted: " Most notably there is the issue posed by two persistent regional secession movements: the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south.

Most of the axons of the optic nerve terminate in the lateral geniculate nucleus from where information is relayed to the visual cortex, while other axons terminate in the pretectal nucleus and are involved in reflexive eye movements.

Most are at least partially mobile but many movements seem to be local, possibly between favourite haunts as the conditions change.

Most day traders exit positions before the market closes to avoid unmanageable risks — negative price gaps ( differences between the previous day's close and the next day's open bull price ) at the open — overnight price movements against the position held.

Most of the oldest recognized movements, dating to late 18th and 19th centuries, fought for specific social groups, such as the working class, peasants, whites, aristocrats, Protestants, men.

: Most aircraft movements annually ( 1999 – 2000, 2005 – present ); In 2007, Hartsfield again set the world's record for most aircraft movements in one year with 994, 346.

Most populations migrate to subtropical areas in winter, but this species is largely resident in westernmost Europe, apart from movements to favoured moulting grounds, such as the Wadden Sea on the north German coast.

Most commonly practiced are various movements with the hands as if one could hold onto air and pull their body in any possibly direction.

Most official accounts place responsibility for the attack on Sikh extremism, though many groups believe their movements have been unfairly blamed.

Most strokes involve rhythmic and coordinated movements of all major body parts — torso, arms, legs, hands, feet, and head.

Most Anarchists see liberation movements by oppressed people as fundamentally legitimate, be they " peasants ", " proletarians ", or bourgeoisie, without needing to fit these movements into a predetermined schema for revolution.