Most societies consider it a serious crime to force someone to engage in sexual acts or to engage in sexual activity with someone who does not consent.

Most serious was lack of unified popular support.

Most likely he spent it in the Hebrides ( possibly sheltered by Christina of Garmoran ) although Ireland is a serious possibility, and Orkney ( under Norwegian rule at the time ) or Norway proper ( where his sister was queen dowager ) although unlikely are not impossible.

Most experienced and skillful players greatly prefer feathers, and serious tournaments or leagues are always played using feather shuttlecocks of the highest quality.

Most US experts who've heard or processed the tape have usually supported that conclusion, but the result of Idiap Research Institute shows that " there is serious room for doubt " that the speaker is bin Laden.

Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some serotypes can cause serious food poisoning in humans, and are occasionally responsible for product recalls due to food contamination.

Most such cases are civil cases involving large sums of money or criminal trials arising from serious crimes like rape and murder.

Most romantic comedies place phony obstacles in the way of true love, but Smith knows that at some level there's nothing funny about being in love: It's a dead serious business, in which your entire being is at risk.

Most tumours are benign but are quite serious because of their position close to important brain structures.

Most serious of the elm pests is the elm leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola, which can decimate foliage, although rarely with fatal results.

Most importantly, since it constituted a significant proportion of the entire Spartan manpower, 400 of the 700 Spartiates present were killed, a loss that posed a serious threat to Sparta's future war-making abilities.

Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or, often, a serious play with a happy ending.

Most atomic weights are known to a precision of at least one part in ten-thousand, often much better ( the atomic weight of lithium is a notable, and serious, exception ).

Most men were given some kind of exemption, usually temporary ( between a few weeks and six months ) or conditional on their situation at work or home remaining serious enough to warrant their retention at home.

Most Uchinanchu of the younger generations are not serious adherents to this religion anymore, but many older Uchinanchu try to teach about the old ways, including dances and the language.

Most games, such as Mock the Week or Hollywood Squares, are humorous, while others, such as Face The Music, are more serious.

Most acts avoid " serious " subjects such as politics.

Most of these dances needed some interpretation, and the dance style itself underwent serious standardisation, becoming much more balletic instead of the easy-going style that was the norm in the early 20th century, and which the RSCDS's founders considered sloppy and untraditional.

Most serious was the almost total failure to sell any goods to the few passing traders that put in to the bay.

Most rheumatic diseases are treated with analgesics, NSAIDs ( Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs ), steroids ( in serious cases ), DMARDs ( Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs ), monoclonal antibodies, such as infliximab and adalimumab, and the soluble TNF receptor etanercept and Methotrexate for moderate to severe Rheumatoid arthritis.

Most serious was the disaster in Iraq in 1971-2, when according to official figures 459 died.

Most of the northern chiefs, including Nene, had serious concerns with workings of the new Treaty.

Most of the naysaying notices had comments ranging from " far too long " and " shallow, improbable story masquerading as a serious musical " from The Sunday Times to The Guardian's conclusion that, " A musical is only as good as its book, and here one is confronted by an inchoate mess.

Most infections can cause some degree of diaphoresis and it is a very common symptom in some serious infections such as malaria and tuberculosis.

Most naturally occurring elements exist as a mixture of isotopes, and the average atomic mass of this mixture determines the element's atomic weight.

Most agates occur as nodules in volcanic rocks or ancient lavas where they represent cavities originally produced by the disengagement of volatiles in the molten mass which were then filled, wholly or partially, by siliceous matter deposited in regular layers upon the walls.

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

Most of the EDA vendors produced EDIF 2 0 0 translators, but they were definitely more interested in generating high-quality EDIF readers, and they had absolutely no motivation at all to write any software that generated EDIF ( an EDIF Writer ), beyond threats from customers of mass migration to another vendor's software.

Most of the students had already signed, so the mass murder would appear to be a mass suicide instead.

( Most of the universe's mass is not in the form of chemical elements — that is, " baryonic " matter — but is made up of dark matter and dark energy.

Most historical linguists ( Campbell 2001: 45 ) reject the use of mass comparison as a tool for establishing genealogical relationships between languages.

Most cell phones are equipped with internet access and capable of connecting to the web which itself a mass medium.

Most populations of the woolly mammoth in North America and Eurasia, as well as all the Columbian mammoths in North America, died out around the time of the last glacial retreat, as part of a mass extinction of megafauna in northern Eurasia and the Americas.

( Most of the elongated triangular continental mass of Zealandia is a subsurface plateau.

Most theories see the nation state as a 19th-century European phenomenon, facilitated by developments such as mass literacy and the early mass media.

Most open clusters form with at least 100 stars and a mass of 50 or more solar masses.

Most recently, on 6 July 2009, the New Jersey Supreme Court had also designated litigation over Levaquin as a mass tort and has assigned it to an Atlantic County, N. J., judge.

Most of the takeoff mass of a rocket is normally propellant.

Most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate in magnetically active regions around visible sunspot groupings.

Most of Paine's arguments had long been available to the educated elite, but by presenting them in an engaging and irreverent style, he made deism appealing and accessible to a mass audience.

Most escapes were by individuals or small groups ; occasionally, there were mass escapes, such as with the Pearl incident.

Most Western countries experienced a large economic boom, due to the mass production of railroads and other more convenient methods of travel.

Most political scientists agree that the mass media have a profound impact on voting behavior.

Most are defined in kilojoules per mole ( kJ mol < sup >− 1 </ sup >), but can also be measured in calories per mole, joules per mole or kilocalories per gram ( any combination of these units conforming to the energy per mass or amount guideline ).

Most mass transit systems move people in groups over scheduled routes.

Most humidity charts are given in g / kg or kg / kg, but any mass units may be used.