It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

The lungs in amphibians are primitive compared to those of amniotes, possessing few internal septa and large alveoli and consequently having a comparatively slow diffusion rate for oxygen entering the blood.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

There are comparatively few icons and paintings of him.

While diverse life forms prospered in the oceans, the land was comparatively barren – with nothing more complex than a microbial soil crust and a few forms that apparently emerged to browse on the microbial materials.

The Cutter Expansive Classification, although adopted by comparatively few libraries, mostly in New England, has been called one of the most logical and scholarly of American classifications.

Because very few minerals contain it in high concentration, germanium was discovered comparatively late in the history of chemistry.

While comparatively few studies of this type have been performed, results from these suggest that some of the most readily isolated and studied genera may not in fact be significant in the in-situ community.

They consisted chiefly of the teeth, scales and fins, even the bones being perfectly preserved in comparatively few instances.

After Keats, there have been comparatively few major odes in English.

Consequently, comparatively few people had passports.

However propellant is seldom more than a few times more expensive than gasoline per kg ( as of 2009 gasoline is about $ 1 / kg or less ), and although substantial amounts are needed, for all but the very cheapest rockets it turns out that the propellant costs are usually comparatively small, although not completely negligible.

Anderson joined the project during the last few weeks of the sessions, having comparatively little creative input beyond adding his lead vocals and re-writing certain lyrics.

On the south and north sides of the promontory, there are comparatively few buildings, while, at the west end there is a sheer precipice to the sea.

Ferrara has many early Renaissance palaces, often retaining terracotta decorations ; few towns of Italy as small have so many, though most are comparatively small in size.

Schools were founded for the teaching of the children: for the great obstacle to the free use of the printing press was that so few of the people comparatively could read.

Unfortunately, the critical period between 950 and 954 has produced comparatively few charters ( owing perhaps to Eadred's deteriorating health ), but what little there is may be instructive.

A few first-generation daguerreotypists refused to entirely abandon their beautiful old medium when they started making the new, cheaper, easier to view but comparatively drab ambrotypes and tintypes.

Her absence, and the lack of a steady drummer ( Stevenson quit and was replaced by Anthony Martinez ), contributed to the comparatively weak reputation of the last few Black Flag tours.

Grafton was formed from the towns of Troy and Petersburgh on March 20, 1807, and even at this comparatively late day it had few inhabitants.

Where cut-through requires many packets worth of buffer space, the wormhole method needs very few flit buffers ( comparatively ).

The music of the 1950s is fundamentally lyric in style, though there are comparatively few long-breathed melodies ; two such can be found in the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the Piano Concerto opens with a long tune for high piano and flute, creating " a sustained crescendo, thirty-three bars long leading to a sonorous tutti "( David Matthews ).

Among the few regions where such comparatively traditional communities could be found, and the Manchu language was still widely spoken, were the Aigun District ( whose folkways the Russian ethnographer S. M. Shirokogoroff studied in 1915-1916 ) and the Tsitsihar District of Heilongjiang Province.

Gradually affluent residents are moving back into the district which has been comparatively poor since the Great War.

The comparatively populous Arab village of Lifta ( today within the bounds of Jerusalem ) was captured by Israeli troops in 1948, and its residents were loaded on trucks and taken to East Jerusalem.

There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

The somewhat confusing terminology and disagreement amongst geologists on where to draw what hierarchical boundaries, is due to the comparatively fine divisibility of time units as time approaches the present, and due to geological preservation that causes the youngest sedimentary geological record to be preserved over a much larger area and to reflect many more environments, than the older geological record.

In Najd and the great deserts, watering places are comparatively fewer and scattered over a wide area.

The SEM has compensating advantages, though, including the ability to image a comparatively large area of the specimen ; the ability to image bulk materials ( not just thin films or foils ); and the variety of analytical modes available for measuring the composition and properties of the specimen.

Other than the heat retention properties of urban areas, the nighttime maximum in urban canyons could also be due to the blocking of " sky view " during cooling: surfaces lose heat at night principally by radiation to the comparatively cool sky, and this is blocked by the buildings in an urban area.

In other words, the electric field strength in the entire area that is affected by the EMP will be fairly uniform for weapons with a large gamma ray output ; but for much smaller weapons, the electric field may fall off at a comparatively faster rate at large distances from the detonation point.

The term dirty bomb refers to a specialized device that relies on a comparatively low explosive yield to scatter harmful material over a wide area.

In return, the plant gains the benefits of the mycelium's higher absorptive capacity for water and mineral nutrients due to the comparatively large surface area of mycelium: root ratio, thus improving the plant's mineral absorption capabilities.

From the late 18th century to comparatively recent times, Battersea, and certainly north Battersea, was established as an industrial area, with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it.

The remaining older, singly owned houses are as much as 45 years old, annexed to comparatively small parcels, again an outgrowth of the 1 / 2 acre limitation on homestead property area within municipalities as set forth in the Florida Constitution.

The bucolic environment, with abundant sporting opportunities which had long attracted summer vacationers to the area, combined with the relatively low cost of real estate and cost of living has brought a new source of people wishing to raise their children away from the comparatively commercialized and higher crime environments of larger cities.

There are comparatively well-preserved fragments of the ancient volcanoes in the area.

The physics of VHF broadcasting meant that a comparatively small number of transmitters could cover the majority of the population of Britain, if not the bulk of the area of the country.

The metropolitan area of Jena is among Germany's 50 fastest growing regions, with many internationally renowned research institutes and companies, a comparatively low unemployment and a very young population structure.

Glaciers existed throughout the park area during most of the Pleistocene with smaller ones persisting at higher elevations until comparatively recent times.

Being towards the southern end of the area around Anzac Cove, the terrain in the Lone Pine region was comparatively gentle and the opposing trenches were separated some distance with a flat no-man's land intervening.

But blonds are found at comparatively high frequency among the Nuristani people of eastern Afghanistan, who have about one-third recessive blondism .< ref name = Iranica2 > In northwestern Pakistan, the Kalash tribe ( related to Nuristanis ) also have an unusually high frequency of blond hair, while blond hair is also found among many Pashtuns tribes of the area, such as the Afridis residing near the Khyber Pass.

Of these the last three have their rise near the northern boundary of the state, in a comparatively small area, near the eastern source of the Yadkin.

Within it, the Tiveden National Park has a designated area of 13. 5 km², a comparatively small and arguably the most inaccessible part of the forest.

The comparatively small area of Krause's influence was due partly to him being overshadowed by Schelling and Hegel, and partly to two intrinsic defects.

The City of Whitehorse comprises an overwhelmingly large portion of the electorate and thus elections are fought on a comparatively small area.

" These ideas were echoed in 1999, when the historian Ronald Hutton, in his The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, remarked that the study of the cunning folk and European folk magic was " notoriously, an area that has been comparatively neglected by academic scholars.