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Most striking was the disparity in wages.
Most striking was the productivity surge in capital, as Milken … and others took the vast sums trapped in old-line businesses and put them back into the markets.
Most henges do not contain stone circles ; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury ( and to a lesser extent Stonehenge ) among the greatest of such sites.
Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).
Most striking was her love for Hitler.
Most western countries partially legalized striking in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Verses by Angilbert, who fought the battle on the side of Lothar are cited by historian Eleanor Shipley Duckett as the " Most striking of all these Latin records of the battle ".
Most species are strongly sexually dimorphic ; only the male has the striking plumage patterns characteristic of the genus, though the females share the white or red rump patches.
Most phrases now considered clichéd were originally regarded as striking, but lost their force through overuse.
Most were young men, with dreams of owning their land or striking it rich quick would essentially sell years of their labor in exchange for passage to the islands.
Most are dull black flies, and are usually small to medium in size,, and many species have striking wing patterns.
Most striking to Cole was Europe's tallest active volcano, Mount Etna ( Regarding the title: " Etna " is the more common spelling in the present day, but " Aetna " was a common nineteenth-century variant ).
Most striking were the " beavertail " observation cars of the 1930s and the " Skytop Lounge " observation cars by industrial designer Brooks Stevens in the 1940s.
Most notably, Joshi points to Hugh Elliott's Modern Science and Materialism, a 1919 nonfiction book that mentions the " extremely limited " senses of humans, such that of the many " aethereal waves " striking the eyes, " the majority cannot be perceived by the retina at all ".
In striking contrast to the Church of the Most Holy Annunciation, which occupied only a small section of the Collegio Romano, the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola took up a quarter of the entire block when it was completed.
Most longcase clocks are striking clocks, which means they sound the time on each hour or fraction of an hour.
Most striking are the comparisons between the Kincaid and Angel sites, which include analogous site plans, stylistic similarities in artifacts, and geographic proximity.
Most of the Mizo musical instruments used at the time of festivals and dances are striking instruments such as different types of Khuang and Dar, Bengbung, Seki, Talhkhuang.
Most striking in this regard is González Prada ’ s essay " Our Indians " included in his Horas de lucha after 1924.
Most uses of treads are for their striking appearance.
Most are grown for the ornamental foliage while others bear striking inflorescences.
Most striking in today ’ s skyline is the development known locally as the Chinamauer (“ China Wall ”), a roughly 300 m-long block of maisonette flats.
Most striking was how comfortable these Italians seemed in their appropriated shoes, adopting a foreign culture and somehow making it theirs.
Most striking are stripes on the side-on each side one beige and below a black stripe.

Most and indeed
Most CPUs, and indeed most sequential logic devices, are synchronous in nature.
Most of the student side-kicks got cancelled and DirkJan left university, first for jail ( DJ is a notorious Kabouter abuser ) and then to wander the globe and indeed space.
Most paleoanthropologists agree that the early " Homo " species were indeed responsible for most of the Oldowan tools found.
Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico-political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.
Most books, indeed all types of high-volume text, are now printed using offset lithography.
Most silicon is used commercially without being separated, and indeed often with little processing of compounds from nature.
Most Chief Justices, including John Roberts, have been nominated to the highest position on the Court without any previous experience on the Supreme Court ; indeed some, such as Earl Warren, received confirmation despite having no prior judicial experience.
Most were compiled long after the triumph had been fully co-opted into a Imperial-monarchic system of government which to an earlier Republican would have seemed very un-Roman indeed.
Most researchers believe that this is indeed the case – a lengthy attempt at proving this was undertaken by the late Jim Eve.
Most of these have analogous effects in solid-state physics ; indeed, one can often gain a better intuitive understanding by examining these cases.
Most lineages — frigatebirds, gannets, cormorants and anhingas — constitute indeed a natural group, for which the names Suliformes or Phalacrocoraciformes have been proposed.
Most of these peoples were indeed of related kin to the Edain and would later form most of the population of Gondor and Arnor.
Most candidates take the MPRE while still in law school ; indeed, some states require that a candidate pass the MPRE before being allowed to sit for the bar exam.
Most siderophile elements have practically no affinity whatsoever for oxygen: indeed oxides of gold are thermodynamically unstable with respect to the elements.
Most usually a former king's son became tanist ( sometimes the son of the king simultaneously elected, however perhaps more often a son of a rival branch of the dynasty ), but not because the system of primogeniture was in any way recognized ; indeed, the only principle adopted was that the dignity of chieftainship should descend to the eldest and most worthy of the same male-line blood of the clan.
Most symbolic interactionists believe a physical reality does indeed exist by an individual's social definitions, and that social definitions do develop in part or relation to something “ real .” People thus do not respond to this reality directly, but rather to the social understanding of reality.
Most Shi ' ites realized, however, that ar-Rida was too old to survive him and saw al-Ma ' mun's gesture as empty ; indeed, Al-Ma ' mun poisoned Ali ar-Rida who then died in 818.
Most Muslims and, indeed, most Asians have reported increased antagonism.
Most historians place the Bulgar language among the " Lir " branch of Turkic languages referred to as Oghur-Turkic, Lir-Turkic, or, indeed, " Bulgar Turkic " as opposed to the " Shaz "- type of Common Turkic.
Most of the secular scholars conclude that Aaron ben Asher was indeed a Karaite though there is evidence against this view ( see suggestions for further reading ).
Most Greeks believed the Earth to be stationary and at the centre of the universe in accordance with the geocentric model and that the objects in the sky, and indeed the sky itself, revolved around it.
Most portknocks are stateful systems in that if the first part of the " knock " has been received successfully, an incorrect second part would not allow the remote user to continue and, indeed, would give the remote user no clue as to how far through the sequence they failed.
Most modern astrologers use the four classical elements extensively, and indeed it is still viewed as a critical part of interpreting the astrological chart.
Most of the evidence is stacked against Childers, especially because the National Security Advisor, Bill Sokal, is determined for him to be convicted, and at one point burns a videotape of security camera footage showing that the crowd, including an innocent-looking little girl, had indeed been in possession of weapons, justifying Childers ' actions.

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