Much of the resources for these first democratic elections since independence came from locally represented donors and agencies called the " Groupe informel des bailleurs de fonds et representants residents " ( GIBAFOR ).

Much of the policy was conducted by the minister Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares.

Much of what is known of Louis's life comes from Jean de Joinville's famous Life of Saint Louis.

Much of the earliest history of Paraguay comes from the Spanish colonization, beginning indirectly in 1516 with the Juan Díaz de Solís ' failed expedition to the Río de la Plata.

Much of our knowledge of Inca population transfers comes from their description by the Spanish chroniclers Pedro Cieza de León and Bernabé Cobo.

Much of Catholic France, organized into the Catholic League, refused to recognize a Protestant monarch and instead recognized Henry IV's uncle, Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, as king as Charles X, and the civil war continued.

Much of his power passed to Peter de Rivaux, including control of several castles in south Wales.

Much less well-known is the musical " mimodrama " of Vittorio Monti, Noël de Pierrot a. k. a. A Clown's Christmas ( 1900 ), its score set to a pantomime by Fernand Beissier, one of the founders of the Cercle Funambulesque.

Much as Miles Joseph Berkeley ( 1803 – 1889 ) had insisted in 1841 that the fungus found in potato blight was the cause of the disease, de Bary declared that the rust and smut fungi were the causes of the pathological changes in diseased plants.

Much later, Cassel made a cameo appearance as Cyrano de Bergerac in The Return of the Musketeers: the character was depicted as fifty-something and attempting to travel to the Moon with the aid of a balloon.

Much Guarani myth and legend was compiled by the Universidad Nacional de Misiones in northern Argentina and published as Myths and Legends: A journey around the Guarani lands, Anthology in 1870 ( translated into English language in 1906 ).

Much of the Rías Baixas Denominación de Origen ( DO ) is located in the province.

Much but not all of Peter's reputation comes from the works of the chronicler Pero López de Ayala, who after his father's change of allegiance had little choice but to serve Peter's usurper.

Much of the sexual violence in the book draws from the notorious historical cases of Gilles de Rais and Elizabeth Báthory.

Much of the French poetry produced during the fin de siècle was characterized as " decadent " for its lurid content or moral vision.

Much of this is available in the Revue d ' histoire rédigée à l ' État-major de l ' armée, Section historique, 1905 / 01 ( A7, VOL17, N49 )- 1905 / 03 ( A7, VOL17, N51 ).

Much of Richard's time as archbishop was spent in a dispute with Roger de Pont L ' Evêque, the Archbishop of York over the primacy of England, and with St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury over the archbishop's jurisdiction over the abbey.

From 1982 to 1985 he played four demanding roles simultaneously: Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, for which he won a Tony for its Broadway run ( 1984 – 1985 ); Prospero in The Tempest ; Peer Gynt ; and Cyrano de Bergerac which he brought to the US and played in repertory with Much Ado About Nothing on Broadway and in Washington DC ( 1984 – 1985 ).

Much of Fort de France was devastated by a fire in 1890, and then the next year a hurricane killed some 400 people.

Much of the cuisine of the municipality reflects that of the rest of the state and includes pictes ( a sweet corn tamale ), la chispota ( beef with chickpeas and cabbage ), niguijuti ( pork with mole sauce ), sopa de pan ( bread with broth and vegetables ), cochito ( pork in adobo sauce ), chanfaina ( lamb innards with rice ), a legume called patashete, and traditional Chiapas tamales made with chipilín.

Much of the Centro Cultural is occupied by the Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca ( Museum of Oaxacan Cultures ), whose entrance is the one pilgrims used to use to enter the church area of the complex.

Much of her work was focused on the capability of the dancer to perform a classical pas de deux and the skills necessary for such a performance.

Much later, he suggested that in modern times, the best scientists and engineers usually have to choose between either doing their work for more or less questionable business and military interests in a Faustian bargain, or not pursuing their line of work at all.

Much of the burden of educating the aborigines was undertaken by unqualified teachers, who could, at best, speak Mandarin and teach basic ideology.

Much of the best work in ceramics, textiles and other techniques was produced over a long period by the various Imperial factories or workshops, which as well as being used by the court was distributed internally and abroad on a huge scale to demonstrate the wealth and power of the Emperors.

He is best known for directing and / or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), Othello ( 1995 ), Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 2000 ), and As You Like It ( 2006 ).

The band is best known for the hit songs " Lady " (# 6, 1975 ), " Come Sail Away " (# 8, 1977 ), " Babe " (# 1, 1979 ), " The Best of Times " (# 3, 1981 ), " Too Much Time on My Hands " (# 9, 1981 ), and " Mr. Roboto " (# 3, 1983 ).

Much of the interior is in Norman style and this is considered to be the best example of 11th – 12th century church architecture in Cheshire.

Much of the marketing of pills and potions appears based on the unproven premise that women require men to have large penises and that the size of one's penis may be ( in extreme cases ) a psychological / psychiatric condition best dealt with by qualified medical practitioners.

Much is made of the traits of individual characters, such as Del's lack of cultural refinement, despite his pretensions, best seen in his misuse of French phrases or his claims to be a yuppy ; Rodney's gormless nature, resulting in him being labelled a " plonker " or a " dipstick " by Del ; the general daftness of Grandad and Trigger, and the rampant snobbery of Boycie.

Much the same way that the influential Duke Ellington matched his scores to the unique abilities of his performers, Hefti was able to take advantage of the same kind of ' fine-tuning ' to bring out the best of the talents of the Basie band.

) Much of the oratorio repertoire, from Handel's Messiah to Mendelssohn's Elijah, is best suited to a bass-baritone with the ability to combine a rich, dark tone with a smooth, high-lying cantabile line.

Much of the rest of the hacienda land is leased to a recreational park which is best known for its petting zoo which contains tame deer.

Much of Houllier's youth policy was based on bringing in what he regarded as the best that France had to offer.

Much of the best evidence of Roman occupation in Scotland has been found in Falkirk, including a large hoard of Roman coins and a cloth of tartan, thought to be the oldest ever recorded.

Much of the writing produced in this period was conventional in character, in praise of patrons and their families, but the best of it was of exceptionally high quality and included poetry of a personal nature.

Much of the best grazing land-the machair of the north west of the island-is has been compromised by house-building and the increasing opposition to the free-range grazing of cattle and sheep during the winter.

Much like corporations, until the Combination Act 1825 trade unions were regarded as criminal, or at best as quasi-legal organisations, subjected to the restraint of trade doctrine, until the Trade Union Act 1871.

Much of the music produced on the West Coast in those years, as Robert Gordon concedes, was in fact imitative and " lacked the fire and intensity associated with the best jazz performances ".

Critics observed that Mackenzie's operatic and choral music was generally ill-served by his librettists: " Much of his best work ... is neglected, partly because unlike his contemporaries, Parry and Stanford, Mackenzie went for the texts of his larger vocal works to such librettists as Joseph Bennett and Hueffer, instead of to the vital things of English poetry and literature.

Much experimentation has been devoted to determining the exact shape that will give the best tone.

So Much for the Afterglow remains Everclear's best selling album with 2 million copies sold.

Much of the area is forested, with the best conifer woods in Bulgaria, holding important populations of the Balkan endemic species Macedonian Pine, Bosnian Pine and Bulgarian Fir.

Much of its best food was smuggled out to feed lucrative black markets elsewhere.

Much of his best short general fantasy work over the years was collected by Karl Edward Wagner in Worse Things Waiting ( 1973 ), which won Wellman a World Fantasy Award and revived interest in his work.

Nalder is perhaps best remembered for his roles as an assassin in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, the vampire Barlow in the 1979 filmed version of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, and the Andorian ambassador Shras in the Star Trek episode " Journey to Babel.