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And the great majority of these people are of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent.
In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.
Second, the shift to a uniform July 1 to June 30 fiscal year will, of itself, improve the tax collection calendars of the great majority of cities and towns.
The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.
With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.
The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion .< ref name =" acomm ">
) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.
In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).
These were larger than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Steiner's continuing differences with Besant led him to separate from the Theosophical Society Adyar ; he was followed by the great majority of the membership of the Theosophical Society's German Section, as well as members of other national sections.
This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.
The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.
The brain of a shark shows the basic components in a straightforward way, but in teleost fishes ( the great majority of existing fish species ), the forebrain has become " everted ", like a sock turned inside out.
The great majority of today's bicycles have a frame with upright seating which looks much like the first chain-driven bike.
The great majority of living terrestrial vertebrates are quadrupeds.
In a great majority of known nests, two eggs are laid ( rarely 1 or 3 ).
Over succeeding decades the number of societies has decreased, as various societies merged to form larger ones, often renaming in the process, and other societies opted for demutualisation followed by-in the great majority of cases-eventual takeover by a listed bank.
The wealth held by the top 10 % rose considerably over the two decades, but there was little improvement in the wealth levels in rural areas, which comprised the great majority of the population.
However the great majority of families were headed by farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and laborers.
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.
The great majority of Ecuadorans trace their origins to one or more of three geographical sources of Human migrations: the pre-Hispanic indigenous Amerindians who settled the region over 15, 000 years ago, the Europeans ( principally Spaniards ) who arrived over 5 centuries ago, and ultimately the black sub-Saharan Africans whom they imported as slave labour during the same period.
The majority of patients go through a period of spontaneous recovery following brain injury in which they regain a great deal of language function.
The great majority of Afghans traditionally raise sheep instead of goats because goat meat is not popular in Afghanistan.
The raid on Dieppe was widely considered a disaster, with casualties ( including those wounded or taken prisoner ) numbering in the thousands, the great majority of them Canadians.

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The existence of a highly treasured dominical sayings document in circulation going totally unmentioned by the Fathers of the Early Church, remains one of the great conundrums of Modern Biblical Scholarship.
* 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God.
Because of his path-finding synthesis of Aristotle and Biblical faith, Maimonides also had a fundamental influence on the great Church theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The Greek form of the name Babylon is from the native Akkadian Bāb-ilim, which means " Gate of the god ", which summarizes the religious purpose of the great temple towers ( the ziggurats ) of ancient Sumer ( Biblical Shinar ).
In 1901, whilst in Rome, Modigliani admired the work of Domenico Morelli, a painter of melodramatic Biblical studies and scenes from great literature.
With these works, which cover in the first instance the field of Hebrew philology and Biblical exegesis, he fulfilled the great mission of making accessible to the Jews of Christian Europe the treasures of knowledge enshrined in the works written in Arabic which he had brought with him from Spain.
In one century, they experienced the tragedy of the Holocaust, with the end of the great centres of Jewish life, followed by the historical return to their Biblical homeland, with the parallel reestablishment of Jewish study and spirituality in Israel and America.
* Michaelis great uncle Johann Heinrich Michaelis ( 1668 – 1738 ) was the chief director of A. H. Francke's Collegium orientale theologicum, a practical school of Biblical and Oriental philology then quite unique, and the author of an annotated Hebrew Bible and various exegetical works of reputation, especially the Adnotationes uberiores in hagiographos ( 1720 ).
Origins of the genre can also be found in Night and Ice ( 1912 ), about the sinking of the Titanic ; Atlantis ( 1913 ), also about the Titanic ; Noah's Ark ( 1928 ), the Biblical story of the great flood ; Deluge ( 1933 ), about tidal waves devastating New York City ; King Kong ( 1933 ), with a gigantic gorilla rampaging through New York City ; and The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1935 ), dealing with the Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption in 79 AD.
Biblical interpretation by the Tannaim and the Amoraim, which may be best designated as scholarly interpretations of the Midrash, was a product of natural growth and of great freedom in the treatment of the words of the Bible.
Much humanist effort went into improving the understanding and translations of Biblical and early Christian texts, both before the Protestant Reformation, on which the work of figures like Erasmus and Jacques Lefèvre d ' Étaples had a great influence, and afterwards.
Justice (" din " corresponding to the Biblical " mishpat ") being God's must be vindicated, whether the object be of great or small value ( Sanh.
This identification was backed by the American scholar William Foxwell Albright, who further argued in a 1924 paper that the site of et-Tell held the ruins of a great Canaanite city, corresponding with the Biblical tradition that the Israelite commander Joshua " burnt Ai and made it a heap for ever " ( Joshua 8: 28 ).
In the 1920s Sarah also maintained a houseboat on San Francisco Bay at Burlingame, California, which became known as " Sarah's Ark " as it was reputedly kept there as insurance against her fear of a second great flood, such as the Biblical one experienced by Noah and his family, but a more mundane answer is that many people of her social standing in California at that time had house boats or yachts.
He was said to have great Biblical knowledge and could preach a good sermon on any passage at a moments notice.
The Jesuits ' dates provoked great interest in Europe, where they were used for comparisons with Biblical chronology.
According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.
According to The Georgian Chronicles, the ancestor of the Kartvelian people was Kartlos, the great grandson of the Biblical Japheth.
Oncken thought this appeared to be without Biblical authority, and said of Haldane's advice, " Even great men are able to err.
The 2nd century BC apocryphal book " Ogias the Giant " or " The Book of Giants " depicts the adventures of a giant named Ogias who fought a great dragon, and who was supposedly either identical with the Biblical Og or was Og's father.
However, they gained great influence over Renaissance ways of thinking about population and migration, because Annius provided a list of kings from Japhet onwards, filling a historical gap following the Biblical account of the Flood.
Known as the fourth great Danish hymn writer ( after Kingo, Brorson and Grundtvig ), Ingemann is considered less rooted in Biblical dogma and more borne up by a general spiritual and religious interest.
The Mountains of Ararat ( Biblical Hebrew, Tiberian, Septuagint: ) is the place named in the Book of Genesis where Noah's Ark came to rest after the great flood ( Genesis 8: 4 ).
Antonio de Leon Pinelo maintained at great length that Biblical Paradise was situated in America.

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