Since in a majority of constellations the brightest star is designated Alpha ( α ), many people wrongly assume that Bayer meant to put the stars exclusively in order of their brightness, but in his day there was no way to measure stellar brightness precisely.

Since 1988, Danish defence budgets and security policy have been set by multi-year agreements supported by a wide parliamentary majority including government and opposition parties.

* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Since the great majority of people who first attempted to transcribe Chinese were not linguists ( and even if they were, the principles of modern phonemics were not discovered for another two centuries ), their endeavour was marred by a lack of systematic approach and many contemporary European misconceptions about language.

Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.

Since the Iraq War, evangelicalism has begun to make inroads in Iraq, capitalizing on a new openness to Western missionaries following the US-led invasion of the country, although the vast majority of converts are from other sects of Christianity present in Iraq .< ref >

Since in 2008, the CSU lost its absolute majority in Bavaria and formed a coalition with the FDP, the grand coalition had no majority in the Bundesrat and depended on FDP votes on important issues.

Since the 16th century, the majority of the city's inhabitants were German-speakers.

Since 2008 a take-over is in progress: the Schaeffler Group from Herzogenaurach ( Bavaria ) holds the majority of the stock but were required due to the financial crisis to deposit the options as securities at banks.

Since propellant typically represents the majority of the takeoff weight of a rocket, HOTOL was to be considerably smaller than normal pure-rocket designs, roughly the size of a medium-haul airliner such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 / MD-80.

# Large number of similar exposure units: Since insurance operates through pooling resources, the majority of insurance policies are provided for individual members of large classes, allowing insurers to benefit from the law of large numbers in which predicted losses are similar to the actual losses.

Since 1927 South Australia has permitted majority verdicts of 11: 1, and 10: 1 or 9: 1 where the jury has been reduced, in criminal trials if a unanimous verdict cannot be reached in four hours.

Since 1945, Polish Catholics make up the majority of the population.

# The Advertising License to Do Business: Since the majority of the revenue of major media outlets derives from advertising ( not from sales or subscriptions ), advertisers have acquired a " de-facto licensing authority ".

Since then, many millions of cavity magnetrons have been manufactured ; while some have been for radar the vast majority have been for microwave ovens.

Since 2003, the majority of widespread viruses and worms have been designed to take control of users ' computers for black-market exploitation.

" Since over 90 % of the neurons in the brain release either glutamate or GABA, these labels encompass the great majority of neurons.

Since most manuscripts of the New Testament do not derive from the first several centuries, that is, they were copied after the rise of the Byzantine text-type, this form of text is found the majority of extant manuscripts and is therefore often called the " Majority Text.

Since no candidate obtained an absolute majority, a second round is organized with the first two candidates from the first.

Since the overwhelming majority of light rays from a given light source do not make it directly into the viewer's eye, a " forward " simulation could potentially waste a tremendous amount of computation on light paths that are never recorded.

Since the Spanish transition to democracy, there have not been coalition governments ; when a party has failed to obtain absolute majority, minority governments have been formed.

Since the constitution of 1978 came into effect, there have not been any coalition governments, even if the party with the largest number of seats has failed to obtained absolute majority, though in such cases the party in government has had to rely on the support of minority parties to gain confidence and to approve the State's budgets.

Since the mid-1970s, women have created the vast majority of shōjo manga ; notable exceptions include Mineo Maya and Shinji Wada ).

Since 1948, Baloch nationalists in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan have been seeking to separate Baloch majority regions of the three countries to form a new state with the help of elements outside the aforementioned countries.

Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.

Since it requires only five players, it would seem to fall into the category of chamber music -- yet it calls for a double bass, an instrument generally regarded as symphonic.

Since she also has considerable technical virtuosity and a feeling for music in the romantic tradition, Miss Xydis gave her listeners a good deal of pleasure.

Since rococo music tends to be pretty and elegant above all, it can seem rather vacuous to twentieth-century ears that have grown accustomed to the stress and dissonances of composers from Beethoven to Boulez.

* Since 1997, a series of cultural, art, music and entertainment events have taken place in November at various locations in the town, under the title, Novembernebel ( November fog )

Since the target audience of pop music can vary greatly, so can the celebrated subject of the anthem.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

Since dance is to a large extent tied to music, this led to a burst of newly invented dances.

Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section.

Since polyphonic texture was no longer the main focus of music ( excluding the development section ) but rather a single melodic line with accompaniment, there was greater emphasis on notating that line for dynamics and phrasing.

Since 2002, Charles has been a DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music, presenting The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show, where he plays a diverse range of funk and soul music, from classic tracks to the latest releases, and provides publicity for new bands.

Since then, Japanese research in computer music has largely been carried out for commercial purposes in popular music, though some of the more serious Japanese musicians used large computer systems such as the Fairlight in the 1970s.

Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.

Since then, the annual Cityfolk Festival has continued to bring the best in folk, ethnic and world music and arts to Dayton.

Since an actual Taiko ensemble had never really performed together and the people he had playing with him were in no way professional musicians, he based the rhythms of their performance on the simplistic arrangement of the shrine music that had been previously played ; which allowed for nearly any person with the interest in Taiko could play along.

Since there is no established instrumental ensemble that includes the double bass, its use in chamber music has not been as exhaustive as the literature for ensembles such as the string quartet or piano trio.

Since the 1970s his music has enjoyed a modest revival which looks set to continue as it is rediscovered and re-evaluated.

Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.

Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy / music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW.

Since the 1990s, Canadian born musician Nadaka who has spent most of his life in India, has been creating music that is an acoustic fusion of Indian classical music with western styles.

Since then, pop singers in the latter group have included KK, Baba Sehgal, Alisha Chinai, Shantanu Mukherjee aka Shaan, Sagarika, Colonial Cousins ( Hariharan, Leslie Lewis ), Lucky Ali, and Sonu Nigam, and music composers like Jawahar Wattal, who made top selling albums with, Daler Mehndi, Shubha Mudgal, Baba Sehgal, Swetha Shetty and Hans Raj Hans.

Since his theatre was not licensed to produce drama, he asked several of the leading composers ( Lawes, Cooke, Locke, Coleman and Hudson ) to set sections of it to music.