Nearly all important political positions are occupied by warriors and often require trials of combat.

Nearly all members of the Anointed Quorum were important leaders and their wives in the church or community, including the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Nearly all is single-track, although some important sections around Bangkok are double or triple-tracked and there are plans to extend this.

Nearly all of the most important Egyptian matches are held there.

213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

Nearly five decades later the battle was among the actions recognised by a clasp attached to the Naval General Service Medal, awarded upon application to all British participants still living in 1847.

Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.

Nearly 18 % of the total 1998-99 basic grain harvest was lost.

Nearly 75 % of Estonia's air pollution was reported to come from two oil shale-based thermal power stations operating near Narva.

Nearly all of the public was strongly against America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and any deployment of troops.

Nearly all the hydrogen was neutral ( non-ionized ) and readily absorbed light, and no stars had yet formed.

Nearly half the building was destroyed and 3 people were injured.

Nearly three months later, on 12 September, a right thigh was discovered in the peat on the bucket of a digger.

Nearly all of the business of foodservice establishments of this category was in hosting banquets onsite.

Nearly fifty years later, the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, allowing the vice president to assume the presidency any time the president was rendered incapable of carrying out the duties of the office.

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

Nearly half of all Roman legions had to be pulled together to end the revolt, which was triggered by neglect, endemic food shortages ( since 22 BCE, following a political crisis in 23 BCE and riots in 22, 21 and 19 BCE, ended after 8 CE ), high taxes and harsh behavior of the tax collectors.

However, one of its original authors, Laurence Lundblade, insists this was never the case and that it started off simply as a word and not an acronym, and that his first choice of a backronym for pine would be " Pine Is Nearly Elm ".

Nearly one-quarter of Germany's GNP was committed to the war effort in 1939, and this rose three-quarters of GNP in 1944, prior to the collapse of the economy.

Nearly all his life and career was spent in Germany, writing in German and living in Berlin from the age of almost 17.

Nearly everything settlers consumed was raised or made on their farms.

Nearly half of its surface area was occupied by the state's own circular exhibit " Century 21 — The Threshold and the Threat ," also known as the " World of Tomorrow " exhibit ," a " 21-minute tour of the future.

Nearly the entire Russian fleet was lost in a single battle ; the fast armed yacht Almaz ( classified as a cruiser of the 2nd rank ) and the destroyers Grozny and Bravy were the only Russian ships to make it through to Vladivostok.

Nearly half a century later, after the United States Army had built Fort Laramie without permission on Lakota land, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was negotiated to protect travelers on the Oregon Trail.

Nearly all the patients reported that their pains were correlated with weather conditions, although the real correlation was zero.

Nearly all had landed at least a few hundred yards off target, and in an intricately planned operation where each section on each boat had been assigned a specific task, this was enough to throw the whole plan off.

Nearly a century before Erik, strong winds had driven Gunnbjörn towards a land he called " Gunnbjarnarsker " (" Gunnbjörn's skerries ").

Nearly a century after Dominic's birth, a local author asserted that Dominic's father was " vir venerabilis et dives in populo suo " (" an honoured and wealthy man in his village ").

Ben meets a divorced Polly again with the help of the Second Doctor in 1999 (" That Time I Nearly Destroyed The World Whilst Looking For a Dress " by Joseph Lidster, published in Short Trips: Past Tense ), where the two admit their love for each other.

Nearly all standalone receivers and many integrated (" home theater in a box ") DVD player / receivers manufactured today can decode DTS.

Nearly simultaneously David Hilbert published " The Foundations of Physics ", an axiomatic derivation of the field equations ( see Einstein – Hilbert action ).

The band also contributed most of the show's original music, including " My Lovely Horse ", as used in the episode " Song For Europe " and " My Lovely Mayo Mammy " for the episode " Night of the Nearly Dead ".

Tricky opened his second album Nearly God by a version of " Tattoo ", a pre-trip-hop song of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

*" Fall of Winnie Mandela Began Nearly 2 Years Ago ; Erratic Behavior Preceded Recent Violence ", Washington Post, 18 February 1989

A possible loophole is to interpret " All " as " Nearly all "-" Nearly all ravens are black " is not equivalent to " Nearly all non-black things are non-ravens ", and these propositions can have very different probabilities.

The first New Year special, " The Man who Nearly Knew Pavarotti ", was commissioned in 1994.

When Martin joined the band they had already finished the song " Nearly Lost You ", which soon became a successful single.

Sweet Oblivion was the band's breakout album and included the hit singles " Nearly Lost You ", " Dollar Bill ", and " Shadow of the Season ".

Nearly all New Zealand universities were originally described as " University Colleges ", and were constituent parts of a Federal body, the University of New Zealand.

Nearly all were powered by the Offenhauser, or " Offy ", engines.

Nearly 900 miles away from Cape Race, they encountered high waves of heavy seas, " breaking short and high Pyramid wise ", said Hayes.

Nearly contemporaneous, the Republic of Ragusa can be seen as a " thalassocracy ", a protégé of Venice.

Nearly all layers of government and church life ( except in Rhode Island ) remained " Puritan ", and only a few of the so-called " upper crust " joined the British government-sponsored Anglican church.

Nearly sixty years after writing his legendary classic " La Mer ", Trenet proved that he was capable of coming up with fourteen inspired new tracks.

Nearly all of Carnegie's libraries were built according to " The Carnegie Formula ", which required matching contributions from the town that received the donation.

Nearly two months after the event, a BBC spokesman denied that the work was a hoax, describing it instead as an " experiment ", in which " the percussion instruments on the tape were played at random.

Sweet Oblivion was the band's breakout album and included the singles " Nearly Lost You ", " Dollar Bill ", " Butterfly ", and " Shadow of the Season ".

On September 27, 2012, the Toronto Star, a Canadian newspaper, ran the story headlined " Nearly Naked Man Bites Dog ", about a man that is alleged to have bitten a dog in Pembroke, Ontario.

Nearly all versions, whether they have the wreck on the outward voyage or the return, relate the bad omen of seeing " the new mune late yestreen, with the auld mune in her airms ", and modern science agrees the tides would be at maximum force at that time.