Possibly because of excessive tribute taxes " the bulk of the country's population must have become Muslim ".

These elements, which formed the bulk of the population, were not averse to supporting a strong ruler who would protect them against the Arab aristocracy.

The vast bulk of the population engages in subsistence farming and 55 % of the country's GDP arises from agriculture.

A second wave of humans dispersed across the Sinai peninsula into Asia, resulting in the bulk of human population for Eurasia.

Bad harvests ( caused in part by extreme weather from El Niño along with volcanic activity at Laki and Grímsvötn in 1783 – 1784 ), rising food prices, and an inadequate transportation system that hindered the shipment of bulk foods from rural areas to large population centers contributed greatly to the destabilization of French society in the years leading up to the Revolution.

By mid-February to mid-March, the bulk of the population has arrived in the lagoons, filling them with nursing, calving and mating gray whales.

# Public holiday, a day decreed by government as a day when the bulk of the population is not normally expected to be at work, such as Australia Day, Anzac Day, bank holidays or Christmas Day.

There is still no consensus ; what does seem to be in agreement however is that the bulk of England's contemporary native population was already in place by the beginning of written history in this part of the world.

Berbers, the bulk of Libya's population, have been present throughout the entire history of the country.

( This was standard Babylonian practice: when the Philistine city of Ashkalon was conquered in 604, the political, religious and economic elite ( but not the bulk of the population ) was banished and the administrative centre shifted to a new location ).

From the 7th century onwards, the East Slavs constituted the bulk of the population in Western Russia and slowly but peacefully assimilated the native Finno-Ugric tribes, such as the Merya, the Muromians, and the Meshchera.

A series of 1950s essays by Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins later set the academic consensus that the bulk of the population, that was at the bottom of the social ladder, suffered severe reductions in their living standards.

These two countries count the bulk of speakers of Inuit language variants, although about 7, 500 Alaskans speak Inuit dialects out of a population of over 13, 000 Inuit.

Ethnic Lao, the principal lowland inhabitants and politically and culturally dominant group, make up the bulk of the Lao Loum and around 60 % of the total population.

The high-energy part of that population ( about 1 MeV ) became known as the " outer radiation belt ", but its bulk is at lower energies ( peak about 65 keV ) and is identified as the ring current plasma.

The " land to the tiller " reform of 1946 redistributed the bulk of agricultural land to the poor and landless peasant population, effectively breaking the power of the landed class.

However, bulk freight still continues to be transported by coastal shipping and by rail transport, and there are attempts to ( re ) introduce public transport as a major transport mode in the larger population centres.

The bulk of the common population was covered by four classes, paying 40, 30, 10 and 3 livres respectively.

From the 7th century onwards, the East Slavs constituted the bulk of the population in Western Russia and slowly but peacefully assimilated the native Finno-Ugric peoples, including the Merya, the Muromians, and the Meshchera.

The bulk of the territory that makes up present-day Sierra Leone was still the sovereign territory of indigenous peoples such as the Mende and Temne, and was little affected by the tiny population of the Colony.

The bulk of the peninsula is divided administratively into two of Egypt's 27 governorates ( with three more straddling the Suez Canal area ), and has a population of approximately 500, 000 people.

The ethnic groups of the coastal region, particularly the Ewes ( about 21 % of the population ), constitute the bulk of the civil servants, professionals, and merchants, due in part to the former colonial administrations which provided greater infrastructure development in the south.

This growth exacerbated the demand for trained professionals strained by emigration due to violent crime, but failed to address unemployment amongst the unskilled bulk of the population.

* March 21 – The bulk of the 900 strong Jewish community of Erfurt ( Germany ) is murdered by the rest of the population which accuses the minority to be the underlying cause of the Black Death.

Moreover, it is unclear if syrinx fluid originates from bulk movement of cerebrospinal fluid into the spinal cord, from bulk transmural movement of blood fluids through the spinal vasculature into the syrinx, or from a combination of both.

While a significant component of the deposit clearly originates from the ancestral Socompa edifice, there are also large amounts of ignimbrite and gravels which have been shown to have come from the substrata immediately below Socompa, and which make up the bulk ( 80 %) of the deposit by volume.

It originates partly from fundamental tissue ( actively dividing hyphae that comprise the bulk of the cap and stem tissue ) and partly by growth from the margin of the cap.

The bulk of his early reputation, however, came not from his poetry or his music, but from his excellence as an orator.

However, the surface temperature gradient can produce erroneous vapor-pressure measurements for the bulk liquid helium unless precautions are taken to isolate the tube ( which passes through the surface to the vapor pressure bulb ) from the liquid helium surface.

The bulk of the preparation had, of course, proceeded under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior, whose officials are barred from party activity and probably generally disinterested in party politics.

* German Americans-German cuisine ( the Pennsylvania Dutch, although descended from Germans, arrived earlier than the bulk of German migrants and have distinct culinary traditions )

But the sponsorship deal was terminated before it commenced after it was revealed that British steel only made up a tiny fraction of steel used in construction of the stadium-the bulk of the steel had been imported from Germany.

The bulk of these words were originally coined in the Shanghai dialect during the early 20th century and were later loaned into Mandarin, hence their pronunciations in Mandarin may be quite off from the English.

The bulk of the club's support base comes from the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley and also north-west Kent.

The bulk of what is known of Caligula comes from Suetonius and Cassius Dio.

Djibouti earns transit taxes and harbour fees from this trade, these form the bulk of government revenue.

* In rotary evaporation a vacuum distillation apparatus is used to remove bulk solvents from a sample.

The density of the material including the air spaces is the bulk density, which differs significantly from the density of an individual grain of sand with no air included.

In 2002 exports from Eritrea were valued at US $ 52 million, and the bulk were skins, meat, live sheep and cattle, and gum arabic.

For this reason, infrared, microwaves, and radio waves are thought to damage molecules and biological tissue only by bulk heating, not excitation from single photons of the radiation ( however, there does remain controversy about possible non-thermal biological damage from low frequency EM radiation, see below ).

The common sources of economies of scale are purchasing ( bulk buying of materials through long-term contracts ), managerial ( increasing the specialization of managers ), financial ( obtaining lower-interest charges when borrowing from banks and having access to a greater range of financial instruments ), marketing ( spreading the cost of advertising over a greater range of output in media markets ), and technological ( taking advantage of returns to scale in the production function ).

Grains may be preserved using carbon dioxide by one of two methods ; either using a block of dry ice placed in the bottom and the can is filled with grain or the container can be purged from the bottom by gaseous carbon dioxide from a cylinder or bulk supply vessel.

Barnabas is about the same length as the four Canonical gospels put together ( the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters, compared with 16 in Mark ), with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus ' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels.

Potassium nitrate is the most important ingredient in terms of both bulk and function because the combustion process releases oxygen from the potassium nitrate, promoting the rapid burning of the other ingredients.

The bulk of the Visigothic army was composed of slaves, raised from the countryside.