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.

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) 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 ).

The great majority of Biblical manuscripts support the Byzantine family, from which a single reading for the New Testament is established.

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.

Almost any shelled mollusk can, by natural processes, produce some kind of " pearl " when an irritating microscopic object becomes trapped within the mollusk's mantle folds, but the great majority of these " pearls " are not valued as gemstones.

However, the inner layer in the great majority of mollusk shells is porcellaneous, not nacreous, and this usually results in a non-iridescent shine, or more rarely in non-nacreous iridescence such as flame structure as is found in conch pearls.

This dye had been exploited during precolombian times, and the Nicoyans took great care not to kill the mollusk when extracting the dye.

It seems to me that the first human being to reach one of these planets may well learn what it is to be a truly great and noble species ''.

Orchids include many species of great ornamental value.

Many species in the iris family have a great economic importance in ornamental horticulture and the cut flower industry, especially Gladiolus, Freesia, Sparaxis, Iris, Tigridia ( tiger lily ), Ixia ( corn lily ), Romulea, Neomarica, Moraea ( butterfly lily ), Nemastylis, Belamcanda, Sisyrinchium ( blue-eyed grass ), Crocosmia and Trimezia.

Zebra mussels as well as the other invasive species found in the great lakes are present.

Other common names for the blue whale have included Sibbald's rorqual ( after Sibbald, who first described the species ), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

Fungi communicate with their own and related species as well as with nonfungal organisms in a great variety of symbiotic interactions, especially with bacteria, unicellular eukaryotes, plants and insects through semiochemicals of biotic origin.

Half of the species know are in the great diverse Begonia group of Begoniaceae with 2 genera, and 1500 species.

The common chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ), also known as the robust chimpanzee, is a species of great ape.

Previously thought to be a single species, molecular phylogenetic evidence over the past couple decades has shown there to be great diversity in Symbiodinium.

While it began with the last common ancestor of all life, the topic usually only covers the evolutionary history of primates, in particular the genus Homo, and the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of hominids ( or " great apes ").

The surviving tropical population of primates, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living species — lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or " bush babies " of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine or New World monkeys, catarrhines or Old World monkeys, and the great apes, including humans.

In the great majority of species, the tail is between a third and a half the length of the body, although there are some exceptions ( for example, the bobcat and margay ).

Though it is often called a whale today, the Hebrew, as throughout scripture, refers to no species in particular, simply sufficing with " great fish " or " big fish " ( whales are today classified as mammals and not fish, but no such distinction was made in antiquity ).

* with one or several ecosystems not materially altered by human exploitation and occupation, where plant and animal species, geomorphological sites and habitats are of special scientific, educative and recreative interest or which contain a natural landscape of great beauty.

In bilaterian animals, which make up the great majority of existing species, the nervous system has a common structure that originated early in the Cambrian period, over 500 million years ago.

These include sensory neurons that transmute physical stimuli such as light and sound into neural signals, and motor neurons that transmute neural signals into activation of muscles or glands ; however in many species the great majority of neurons receive all of their input from other neurons and send their output to other neurons.

The orangutans are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes.

Singer believes that although sex between species is not normal or natural, it does not constitute a transgression of our status as human beings, because human beings are animals or, more specifically, " we are great apes ".

There is great variation in color, size, and type of the bird species that call the gulf home.

Kellner followed Miller's opinion that the differences between the Pteranodon species were great enough to place them into different genera.