Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

In the 5th century BC we often hear of the assembly sitting as a court of judgment itself for trials of political importance and it is not a coincidence that 6000 is the number both for the full quorum for the assembly and for the annual pool from which jurors were picked for particular trials.

Convective cloud sometimes forms inland, reducing the number of hours of sunshine ; annual sunshine rates are slightly less than the regional average of 1, 600 hours.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Day promoted the annual Spay Day USA, and on a number of occasions, actively lobbied the United States Congress in support of legislation designed to safeguard animal rights.

This vision includes establishing a University College to foster both in-depth and wide-interest, society-interest driven education for upcoming engineers ; establishing a combined Graduate School to manage the graduate programs ; an increase of the student body by 50 percent ; a 50 percent increase in the number of annual Ph. D graduations ; an increase of knowledge valorisation to a campus-wide score of 4. 2 ; increasing the international position of the university to within the top-100 universities ; and increasing the embedding of the university within the city and the Brainport region by transforming the campus into a high-grade science park with laboratories, housing facilities for 700 students and researchers and supporting facilities.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

This same Tamuramaro is remembered in Aomori's annual nebuta or neputa matsuri which feature a number of gigantic, specially-constructed, illuminated paper floats.

Even a very small number of additional annual female deaths will cause the subpopulation to decline.

Chadwick edited The Beadle Baseball Player, the first baseball guide on public sale, as well as the Spalding and Reach annual guides for a number of years and in this capacity promoted the game and influenced the then-infant discipline of sports journalism.

In 2010, he was voted the number 29 DJ in DJ Mag's annual Top 100 vote.

Brando made the Top Ten Money Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications ' annual survey of movie exhibitors, three times in the decade, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958.

As of July 2012, the club is number one in Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the world's 50 most valuable sports teams, valued at $ 2. 23 billion.

The Nobel Prize (, Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset ; Norwegian: Nobelprisen ) is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and / or scientific advances.

However, the Soviet Union, and later Russia, have constructed a number of manned drifting stations on a generally annual basis since 1937, some of which have passed over or very close to the Pole.

Total precipitation is greatest in May and least in October, and the average annual precipitation is, yet, on average, December and January have the greatest number of days with precipitation.

In the United States there is concern among some collectors that the United States Postal Service has become a promotional agent for the media and entertainment industry, as it has frequently issued entire sets of stamps featuring movie stars and cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson Over the decades the annual average number of new postage stamp issued by the U. S. P. S.

During the Second World War no international matches were played by most countries though Italy, Germany and Romania played a limited number of games, and Cambridge and Oxford continued their annual University Match.

Whales collectively inhabit all the world's oceans and number in the millions, with annual population growth rate estimates for various species ranging from 3 % to 13 %.

He declared in the Commons on 19 December that naval rearmament would commit the government to expenditure over a number of years and thus would subvert " the principle of annual account, annual proposition, annual approval by the House of Commons, which ... is the only way of maintaining regularity, and that regularity is the only talisman which will secure Parliamentary control ".

In the 1960s, South Africa was connected to 72 nations and total outgoing annual international calls numbered over 28, 800.

In 11 annual deadlines and irregular calls for proposals the Fund awards grants, scholarships and artist residencies.

* June 2 – 7 – Gordon Riots in London, Great Britain: The Duke of Richmond calls, in the House of Lords, for manhood suffrage and annual parliaments, which are rejected.

He frequently threatens various people with a shotgun and attempts suicide ( including an annual attempt at Christmas and in the episodes " Mommie Beerest " after his bar is closed by the health department, Moe calls the suicide hotline only to discover that they ’ ve blocked his number and " Treehouse of Horror XIV " in demonstration of the absence of Death ).

Although he was ultimately unsuccessful in his campaign, in 1972 his hometown of Pekin started holding an annual Marigold Festival in his memory, and now calls itself the " Marigold Capital of the World ".

Castroville calls itself " Artichoke Center of the World " and hosts the annual Castroville Artichoke Festival.

The annual cycle of proposal calls was occasionally altered in duration in years when a HST servicing mission was scheduled.

The Media Research Center operates on a self-reported $ 10 million annual budget, using what it calls " the most comprehensive media monitoring operation in the world " to track major televised broadcasts and print news with the goal of " documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.

There was criticism of McGuinty and calls for Health Minister David Caplan to resign after it was revealed that eHealth Ontario CEO Sarah Kramer had approved about $ 4. 8 million in no-bid contracts during the first four months of the agency's operation, while also spending, argued that the McGuinty government spent five years and $ 647 million on the Smart Systems for Health Agency, which used 15 per cent of its $ 225-million annual budget on consultants despite employing 166 people with annual salaries exceeding $ 100000, before the project was shut down and restarted as eHealth Ontario.

The platform calls for strategies to be enacted to ensure annual economic growth of 6 %, price reductions for basic food items, and incentives for indigenous landowners to develop and profit from their land.

The town calls itself the " Lobster Capital of the World " and hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing ; the largest lobster sculpture in the world is situated at the western entrance to the town.

As well as their weekly radio show, the duo also made satirical radio " calls " of major annual sporting events including the rugby league State Of Origin series, the League and AFL Grand Finals ( known as the Festivals of the Boot, Parts I and II ) and the Melbourne Cup, as well as occasional outside broadcasts of TSL performed before live audiences.

Known for holding an annual get-together for her network of ' friends ' in addition to a weekly ' salon ' at her home in Covent Garden, in May 2009 Carole formed TheStoneClub – a private members club, part social, part business, where members meet to discuss social issues that concern us all-what she calls a ‘ meeting of minds ’.

In the 1960s, South Africa was connected to 72 nations and total outgoing annual international calls numbered over 28, 800.

In his paper “ Islam in Shirley Jackson ’ s The Lottery ,” Nayef Ali Al-Joulan argues that The Lottery can be better perceived through its underlining and striking allusions to Islam which can be categorically seen in the following five aspects: the symbolic black-box, stoning, the status of women, the fixed annual date ( s ) of the lottery, and the act of calling the participants in the lottery five times ( calls ), in addition to further points regarding characterization and scapegoat.

San Francisco-based Breast Cancer Action calls the annual awareness campaign " Breast Cancer Industry Month " to emphasize the costs of treatment.

The most prominent immigration reductionist in government today is U. S. Congressman Tom Tancredo R-CO. Tancredo has authored a bill that calls for limiting annual immigration to between 30, 000 and 300, 000.

U. S. Federal law, under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, calls for the compilation of national prison rape statistics, annual hearings by a review panel, and the provision of grants to the states to address prison rape.

Before the 1990s, most individual investors followed the progress of their stock holdings by receiving phone calls from their broker, by reading annual or quarterly reports mailed to them by the company, by reading news in newspapers or financial publications, or by calling the company with questions.

* build or sustain scientific partnerships, by organising visits of experts, seminars, by promoting annual calls of the French-US joint endowments and funds ;

The ScC is responsible for setting the ERC ’ s scientific strategy including establishing the annual ‘ Ideas ’ Work Programme and calls for proposals, designing the peer review systems, identifying the peer review experts, and communicating with the scientific community.

The contents include extensive book reviews of both nonfiction and fiction, review articles, listings of new and forthcoming books, letters, SFRA internal affairs, calls for papers, works in progress, and an annual index.

Besides attending the ONO's annual conference, many members of the ONO often participate in small mini conferences which are conducted by four-way conference telephone calls throughout the year.