It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

-- Senators unanimously approved Thursday the bill of Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas authorizing establishment of day schools for the deaf in Dallas and the four other largest counties.

The remaining twenty pieces cover problems in physics and ethics, of which the largest group deals with questions of vision and light, and the final four with fate and providence.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women — his largest sculptures — entitled Grande femme debout I through IV ( 1960 ).

Internationally, the largest (" big four ") advertising conglomerates are Interpublic, Omnicom, Publicis, and WPP.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

Increasingly, hydro-power operations are required to meet standards under the U. S. Endangered Species Act and other agreements to manage operations to minimize impacts on salmon and other fish, and some conservation and fishing groups support removing four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia.

The four largest that empty directly into the Columbia ( measured either by discharge or by size of watershed ) are the Snake River ( mostly in Idaho ), the Willamette River ( in northwest Oregon ), the Kootenay River ( mostly in British Columbia ), and the Pend Oreille River ( mostly in northern Washington and Idaho, also known as the lower part of the Clark Fork ).

An inlet from the Pacific the Gulf of Nicoya contains several small islands, the largest of these being Chira Island with a population of around four thousand.

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

Beetles are by far the largest orders of insects, with 350, 000 – 400, 000 species in four suborders ( Adephaga, Archostemata, Myxophaga, and Polyphaga ), making up about 40 % of all insect species described.

When it comes to the world's largest door, there is not just one, in fact there are four and they all belong to NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

The long vessel was armed with four 1-pounder ( 37 mm ) quick-firing guns and six torpedo tubes, reached 19 knots ( 35 km / h ), and at 203 tons, was the largest torpedo boat built to date.

Its largest tributary is the River Rouge in Michigan, which is actually four times longer than the Detroit River and contains most of the basin.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

In most of these, a clear rectangle appears stones if only the four largest stones are considered.

* Four pillars policy, a legislative policy of the Government of Australia to maintain the separation of four of the largest banks in Australia by disallowing their merger or acquisition by any of the other three banks

The four largest moons of Jupiter, as photographed by Galileo.

The partnership brought vast Lithuania-controlled Rus ' areas into Poland's sphere of influence and proved beneficial for the Poles and Lithuanians, who coexisted and cooperated in one of the largest political entities in Europe for the next four centuries.

Leaving the largest part of their supplies behind, the Helvetii covered around 60 km in four days, eventually reaching the lands of the Lingones ( the modern Langres plateau ).

One was the largest observation wheel in the world, the " Millennium Wheel ", or the London Eye, which was erected as a temporary structure, but soon became a fixture, and draws four million visitors a year.

The largest harpsichords have a range of just over five octaves and the smallest have under four.

( UDA ) consists of four residence halls located on the west side of campus, including Friley Hall, which has been declared one of the largest residence halls in the country.

When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade, or one column or grade apart, or two or three or four, we find these differences: Af

This second conclusion, independently arrived at by independent study of material from two pairs of language families as different and remote from one another as these four are, cannot be ignored.

In his big home live four families and thirty people, so it needs to be big.

The suborder Archaeobatrachia contains four families of primitive frogs.

Alexios ' father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.

The Ministry for Statistics and Analysis estimates that one in four families in Belarus owns a computer at home.

Updated in the 1920s to these guides gave shopping suggestions for different-sized families along with a Depression Era revision which included four cost levels.

Under the Cronquist system, the first four families ( including Begoniaceae, Cucurbitaceae, and Datiscaceae ), were placed in the order Violales, within the Dilleniidae, with the Tetramelaceae subsumed within the Datiscaceae.

Therefore, four loose families of more-efficient light transport modelling techniques have emerged: rasterization, including scanline rendering, geometrically projects objects in the scene to an image plane, without advanced optical effects ; ray casting considers the scene as observed from a specific point-of-view, calculating the observed image based only on geometry and very basic optical laws of reflection intensity, and perhaps using Monte Carlo techniques to reduce artifacts ; and ray tracing is similar to ray casting, but employs more advanced optical simulation, and usually uses Monte Carlo techniques to obtain more realistic results at a speed that is often orders of magnitude slower.

The adaptive radiation of angiosperms helped drive the diversification of beetles, as four of the six megadiverse families of beetles are primarily angiosperm-feeders: Curculionidae

These four families ( Ascoviridae, Iridoviridae, Phycodnaviridae and Polydnaviridae ) may form a clade but more work is needed to confirm this.

The older Cronquist system only included four families ( Betulaceae, Corylaceae, Fagaceae, Ticodendraceae ; Corylaceae now being included within Betulaceae ); this arrangement is followed by, for example, the World checklist of selected plant families ( see external link below ).

The Fujiwara was one of the four great families that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian Period ( 794-1185 ), and the most important of them at that time.

The heterotrimeric G proteins can be classified by sequence homology of the α unit into four families:

At Harmony, Pennsylvania, four to six members were assigned to a home, where they lived as families, although not all those living in the household were related.

India has more than two thousand ethnic groups, and every major religion is represented, as are four major families of languages ( Indo-European, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages ) as well as two language isolates ( the Nihali language spoken in parts of Maharashtra and the Burushaski language spoken in parts of Jammu and Kashmir ).

Greenberg grouped the hundreds of African languages into four families, which he dubbed Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger – Congo, and Khoisan.

In contrast, some linguists have sought to combine Greenberg's four African families into larger units.

Baldwin was married to the Armenian noblewoman Morphia of Melitene, and had four daughters: Hodierna and Alice, who married into the families of the Count of Tripoli and Prince of Antioch ; Ioveta, who became an influential abbess ; and the eldest, Melisende, who was his heir and succeeded him upon his death in 1131, with her husband Fulk V of Anjou as king-consort.

Khoisan was proposed as one of the four families of African languages in Greenberg's classification ( 1949 – 1954, revised in 1963 ).

It turns out that they mostly fall into four infinite families, the " classical Lie algebras " A < sub > n </ sub >, B < sub > n </ sub >, C < sub > n </ sub > and D < sub > n </ sub >, which have simple descriptions in terms of symmetries of Euclidean space.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda on 25 January 1576 as " São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda ", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.

Over 300 species of birds have been recorded on the island, of which over 60 percent ( including four families and 42 genera ) are endemic.

Under the older Cronquist system the order contained these four " core Malvales " families plus the Elaeocarpaceae and was placed among the Dilleniidae.