Nearly every great family had its abbé.

Nearly every human society throughout history has expected distinctions to be made between males and females by the style, color, or type of clothing they are expected to wear, and likewise most societies have had a set of social norms, views, guidelines, or even laws defining what type of clothing is appropriate for each gender.

Nearly every rural household on Crete has at least one unregistered gun.

Nearly every country has very strict laws concerning espionage, and the penalty for being caught is often severe.

Nearly every minivan sold in the United States belongs to this segment, so they are simply called minivans there.

Nearly all isotropic comets have very large orbits, on the order of thousands of AU, and appear from every corner of the sky.

Nearly every film produced became a classic in its own right.

" Nearly every instructor in the mess " he wrote, " could quote specific instances of prisoners having been murdered on the way back.

Nearly every known wild population of B. brownii shows some signs of dieback infection, which could possibly wipe it out within years.

Nearly every major HF radio manufacturer in the world builds ALE radios to the 2G standard to meet the high demand that new installations of HF radio systems conform to this standard protocol.

Nearly every species of microorganism, not only bacteria and archaea, have mechanisms by which they can adhere to surfaces and to each other.

Nearly every present-day nation had a pre-colonial predecessor, sometimes an African Empire with which European traders had to barter.

Nearly every continent in the world has experienced a period of famine throughout history.

Nearly every clue has two non-overlapping parts to it: one part that provides an unmodified but often indirect definition for the word or phrase, and a second part that includes the wordplay involved.

Nearly every trade made between Detroit and Chicago ended up being Red Wing heists.

Nearly every Germanic language has a descendant of this proto-language word to indicate the ( White ) stork.

Nearly every common split-pot game uses A-5 ranking, often with a qualifier for low, in which only an 8 low or better is eligible for a pot.

Nearly every foreign ambassador called upon Kissinger at least once.

Nearly every semi-automatic pistol cartridge is “ rimless ,” or more precisely has a rim of the same diameter as the case body ; an extractor engages this rim by entering a cannelure ( rim cut ) near the base of the case.

Nearly every aspect of SRA was controversial, including its definition, the source of the allegations and proof thereof, testimonials of alleged victims, and court cases involving the allegations and criminal investigations.

Nearly every major city was ravaged by gang violence at some point in its history.

Nearly every function has a direct keyboard shortcut and there can be several different shortcuts per key.

Nearly every episode opens, following the opening credits, with Hamner's voice-over ( ostensibly speaking as the present day John-Boy ), briefly reminiscing about the events about to be depicted and setting up the story.

Nearly every town that sprang up in the late 19th century began around a logging or lumber-milling operation.

Nearly all of Corwin's relatives carry a deck of Tarot cards, with a key alteration: each family member is on one of the Trumps.

Nearly every key terrain feature was heavily fortified with elaborate bunker and trench complexes.

Nearly the whole game can be converted into something entirely different, except for the main aspect having to do with slaughtering another player / AI.

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Prager and Metcalf last for a sole episode, the shortest stint for any featured player ( Nearly a decade later, Metcalf returned for a cameo in a short film piece ).

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

Nearly all items in the game gave 1 or more corruption points, and thus each player had to balance the utility of acquired items against the possibility of losing a favored character ( and all of that character's items ) to corruption.

Nearly a month into the season, he suffered a knee injury after colliding with former Ranger Petr Prucha in a game against the Phoenix Coyotes on October 26, 2009.

Nearly all inhabitants of the atoll subsequently complained of itchiness and sore skin ; they vomited, suffered from diarrhea and fatigue.

Nearly all plants and animals indigenous to Fiji are found on Taveuni, which has suffered less devastation from land clearance than other areas of Fiji.

Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the World War I permanently disabled by injury or disease.

Nearly ten years later, when Zen and the Birds of Appetite was published, Merton wrote in his postface that “ any attempt to handle Zen in theological language is bound to miss the point ”, calling his final statements “ an example of how not to approach Zen .” Merton struggled to reconcile the Western and Christian impulse to catalog and put into words every experience with the ideas of Christian apophatic theology and the unspeakable nature of the Zen experience.

Nearly all calendar systems group consecutive days into " months " and also into " years ".

Nearly half of the funds went into the support of Caltech programs and projects.

Nearly all the descriptive words used to justify the genus division were relative terms without a reference measure, and the argument did not take into account the size differences between the species, which can be considerable.

Nearly 19, 000 workers commute into the city from the surrounding townships and villages.

Nearly all contemporary firearms load cartridges directly into their breech.

Nearly half of the canal's water seeps out into lakes and salt swamps along its path.

Nearly all implementations of virtual memory divide a virtual address space into pages, blocks of contiguous virtual memory addresses.

Nearly two centuries later it was converted into a state prison under Napoleon Bonaparte.

Nearly all games magazines, AP included, have a Next Month page, which offers a brief insight into the contents of next month's issue.

Nearly a hundred years ago, the people of St. John Lutheran Church decided to move their church building into town, to better serve current and future generations of people in the village of Royal.

Nearly always, this translated into a civilizing mission rooted in the premise that ' the barbarians could be culturally assimilated '"; namely laihua 來化 " come and be transformed " or Hanhua 漢化 " become Chinese ; be sinicized.

Nearly all of the village is located within Hillman Township ( Montmorency County ), with only a tiny portion extending into Green Township ( Alpena County ).

Nearly all of this money was funneled back into the police force, which almost exclusively dealt with traffic violations and so essentially existed to fund itself.

Nearly seven hours into the concert in London, Bob Geldof enquired how much money had been raised ; he was told £ 1. 2 million.

Nearly all programming paradigms support some level of grouping and encapsulation of concerns into separate, independent entities by providing abstractions ( e. g., procedures, modules, classes, methods ) that can be used for implementing, abstracting and composing these concerns.

Nearly forgotten by historians almost a century after his death, Smith has been rediscovered as an American hero who was the first white man to travel overland from the Salt Lake frontier, the Colorado River, the Mojave Desert, and finally into California.

Nearly 185 years into its existence, the Nederlandsche Bank has entered a new phase.

Nearly all of the research on these effects has concerned girls, partly because female puberty requires greater physiological resources and partly because it involves a unique event ( menarche ) that makes survey research into female puberty much simpler than male.

Nearly forty years on, his work continues the dialectic between working freely and ephemerally wherever in the wide world, and bringing it back into the public domain of art spaces and books in the form of sculptures of raw materials such as stones, mud and water and photographic and text works.

Nearly 35, 000 men were dropped by parachute and glider into enemy territory in an attempt to capture bridges from the Germans and make way for the Allies ' advance.

Nearly fifty of his novels were converted into over one hundred Western movies, the most by any Western author.