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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.
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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.
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.
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For, granting that there are great present-day problems to be solved, these problems make great demands ; ;
The same period saw the rapid rise of Persia, previously an unimportant kingdom in present-day southern Iran, to a position of great power, and in 539 BC Cyrus II, the Persian ruler, conquered Babylon.
The great Danish-German composer Dieterich Buxtehude ( born in what is present-day Sweden ) became organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck in 1668 and remained at the post until at least 1703.
They suggest that a great Oromo migration brought most Oromos to present-day central and western Ethiopia in the 16th and 17th centuries.
and 1000 A. D. remains a mystery, though this may have been the period of great migrations that led to the settlement of present-day Polynesia.
** António Vieira arrives, with his parents, in Bahia ( present-day Salvador ) in colonial Brazil, an unpromising beginning for his great career as a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, and protector of Brazilian Indians in an age of intolerance.
Through William, he is an ancestor of the present-day British royal family, as well as an ancestor of all current European monarchs and a great many pretenders to abolished European thrones.
Contains a great deal of information on ancient and present-day Sicyon.
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Gilbert was one of the leading advocates for a north-west passage to the land of Cathay ( present-day China ), noted in great detail for its abundance of riches by Marco Polo in the 13th century.
The river had an almost complete great loop which followed the southern flank of the Polden Hills, along the course of the present-day King's Sedgemoor Drain.
Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan ( August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888 ), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, New Annan, ( near present-day Tatamagouche ), Colchester County, Nova Scotia, famed for her great height, believed to be 2. 27 m ( 7 ' 5½ ") at the peak of her stature.
One geological feature of great importance to the present-day landscape of the Dinarides must be considered in more detail: that of the limestone mountains, often with their attendant faulting.
Here Thököly came into contact with refugees from Royal Hungary ( more exactly from present-day Slovakia ), who had great hopes of the high-born, highly gifted youth who was also a fellow sufferer, a large portion of his immense estates having been confiscated by the Emperor.
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When the ice dams melted, a great volume of water was released downstream causing massive flash floods and immediate and catastrophic erosion of the present-day canyon.
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The great number of them also settled in Astarabad ( present-day Gorgan, Iran ) near the south-eastern corner of the Caspian Sea, and it would be this branch of Qajars that would rise to power.
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Following its final assembly at ~ 1. 8 Ga, the supercontinent Columbia underwent long-lived ( 1. 8 – 1. 3 Ga ), subduction-related growth via accretion at key continental margins, forming a 1. 8-1. 3 Ga great magmatic accretionary belt along the present-day southern margin of North America, Greenland, and Baltica.
Tamatea's great grandson was Kahungunu, born in present-day Kaitaia.
His mother's family had been an influential commercial and military family in the Moçâmedes ( present-day Namibe ) region of Angola, his great grandfather having been a major in the Portuguese Army.
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