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.

As a result, this would give the Conservatives a greater chance of forming a majority government.

China's system of autonomous regions and autonomous prefectures within provinces are formally intended to provide for greater autonomy by the ethnic group majority that inhabits the region.

One of the greater problems with Modernist-style of planning was the disregard of resident or public opinion, which resulted in planning being forced upon the majority by a minority consisting of affluent professionals with little to no knowledge of real ' urban ' problems characteristic of post-Second World War urban environments ; slums, overcrowding, deteriorated infrastructure, pollution and disease, among others ( Irving 1993 ).

The trustees serve without compensation and a simple majority of trustees must reside in Texas, including at least 4 within the greater Houston area.

Round 2: No candidate has an absolute majority in the first round ( this would be greater than 50 %), so Memphis and Nashville proceed to the next round, while Knoxville and Chattanooga are excluded.

By contrast, he thought the United States required greater compromise because of the diversity of public opinion and the difficulty of forming a majority opinion.

The South Island contained most of the Pākehā population until around 1900 when the North Island again took the lead and has supported an ever greater majority of the country's total population through the 20th century and into the 21st.

The majority did not adopt or use the clear and present danger test, but the concurring opinion encouraged the Court to support greater protections for speech, and it suggested that " imminent danger " a more restrictive wording than " present danger " should be required before speech can be outlawed.

Because these events constitute the majority of the population and because they tend to have the brightest afterglows, they have been studied in much greater detail than their short counterparts.

However, the majority of batholiths visible at the surface ( via outcroppings ) have areas far greater than 100 square kilometers.

The majority of the world's concert halls have at least one Steinway concert grand piano model D-274, some ( for example Carnegie Hall ) have model D-274s from both the New York City factory and the Hamburg factory in order to satisfy a greater range of preferences.

Marine snails constitute the majority of snail species, and have much greater diversity and a greater biomass.

Tilden is the only candidate for President to garner an absolute majority of all votes cast for President in an election ( that is, greater than 50 percent ; Tilden garnered 51. 5 percent ) who was not ultimately elected President in that election.

The greater majority of precipitation falls in the autumn, winter, and spring months with little to none in summer.

From the 1990s to the present, the majority of communications from “ one fixed location to another have moved by fiber .” Since these fiber communications are “ wired ,” U. S. law “ gives them greater protection .”

Although the State Highway Commission's minutes reflected its initial approval of the northern route, the issue remained in play, proponents of the southern route ultimately succeeded in persuading a majority of Virginia Highway Commissioners to support the change after a study championed by Perrow demonstrated that it would serve a greater percentage of the state's manufacturing and textile centers.

In 2010 Bob Neill was reelected with a Conservative majority greater than that achieved in 2005

" While the Council had declared that reception of communion under one form alone deprived the communicant of no grace necessary to salvation, theologians admitted that receiving under both forms may confer a greater grace either in itself ( a minority view ) or only accidentally ( the majority view ).

The researchers found that a majority of Americans support pre-marketing approval by the FDA, increased oversight of harmful supplements, and greater scrutiny of the truthfulness of supplement label claims.

The Council at Basel opened with only a few bishops and abbots attending, but it grew rapidly and to make its numbers greater gave the lower orders a majority over the bishops.

Alternatively, digital cable providers Time Warner Cable and Pond Branch Telecommunications collectively cover the majority of the greater Batesburg-Leesville area.

The territorial definition of the proposed state consists of the Indian state of Punjab, where Sikhs are the majority population ; however, being roughly analogous to the historical Sikh Empire ( 1707 – 1849 ), some believe other territories of the greater Punjab region should also be included.

The majority of research on conduct disorder suggests that there are a significantly greater number of males than females with the diagnosis, with some reports demonstrating a three-to-fourfold difference in prevalence.

Some The doctrinal problem of sangha-as-gem-to-be-revered they solve in two ways: firstly by stressing that the arya sangha is a much greater refuge than the lower levels of sangha, and secondly by stressing that sangha denotes the sacred dimensions of gathering as a community of Buddhists, in contrast with its more mundane dimensions.

Buddhists believe that giving without seeking anything in return leads to greater spiritual wealth.

Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??

Extensive miniature woods of heaths are found in almost endless variety and covered throughout the greater part of the year with innumerable blossoms in which red is very prevalent.

Analyses have shown a greater diversity of DNA patterns throughout Africa, consistent with the idea that Africa is the ancestral home of mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam.

Beginning after World War II, the Methodist churches in the United States continued developing, at a much greater pace, ministries on Universities, Colleges, Junior Colleges and other higher education institutions, on campuses of both church-owned and state schools throughout the United States and Canada, and to a lesser degree in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

The concentration of nociceptors varies throughout the body ; they are found in greater numbers the skin than in deep internal surfaces.

In 1712, Engelbert Kaempfer described addiction to madak: " No commodity throughout the Indies is retailed with greater profit by the Batavians than opium, which users cannot do without, nor can they come by it except it be brought by the ships of the Batavians from Bengal and Coromandel.

In countries that have a proportional representation voting system, as exists throughout Europe, or to a greater extent ranked voting systems, such as in Australia or Ireland, three or more parties are often elected to parliament in significant proportions, and thus may have more access to public office.

21257 in Musnad Ibn Hanbal ) mentions that there were 124, 000 of them in total throughout history ( with other traditions placing the number of Prophets at 224, 000 while other scholars holding that there is even a greater number in the history of mankind, and God alone knows ), and the Qur ' an says that God has sent a prophet to every group of people throughout time, and that Muhammad is the last of the prophets, sent for the whole of humankind.

Many fast-growing economies throughout the world, especially in Asia, also were a major factor in the rapidly increasing demand for fossil fuels, which — along with fewer new petroleum finds, greater extraction costs, and political turmoil — forced two other trends: a soar in the price of petroleum products and a push by governments and businesses to promote the development of environmentally friendly technology ( known informally as " green " technology ).

This belief in foods having inherent " hot " or " cold " properties is prevalent throughout greater China.

She contributed to the 1993 foundation of the Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau, a non-profit organization which aims to influence crime legislation throughout the United States and to give greater rights and protection to victims of violent crime.

Even the shipwrecked Korean Choe Bu ( 1454 – 1504 )— while traveling for five months throughout China in 1488 — acknowledged that Hangzhou served not as a competitor but as an economic feeder into the greater Suzhou market.

Interior Douglas-fir exhibits even greater plasticity, occurring in stands of interior temperate rainforest in British Columbia, as well as at the edge of semi-arid sagebrush steppe throughout much of its range, where it generates even deeper taproots than coast Douglas-fir is capable.

This mechanism for describing resources is a major component in the W3C's Semantic Web activity: an evolutionary stage of the World Wide Web in which automated software can store, exchange, and use machine-readable information distributed throughout the Web, in turn enabling users to deal with the information with greater efficiency and certainty.

The samples, donated by " Mr. Peter Choteau, who resided the greater portion of his time for many years with the Osage Nation " according to Lewis's letter, didn't take, but later the thorny Osage-orange was widely naturalized throughout the U. S. In 1810, Bradbury relates that he found two trees growing in the garden of Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers of St. Louis ( apparently " Peter Choteau ").

As Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to prominence, Chaplin's popularity throughout the world became greater than ever ; he was mobbed by fans on a 1931 trip to Berlin, which annoyed the Nazis, who published a book in 1934 titled The Jews Are Looking at You, in which the comedian was described as " a disgusting Jewish acrobat " ( despite the fact that Chaplin was not Jewish ).

Its much greater speed caused it to spread very quickly throughout the BBS community.

Law's remarkable success was known throughout Europe in financial circles and now came to inspire Blunt and his associates to make greater efforts to grow their own concerns.

Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing has, throughout his political career, always been a proponent of greater European union.

This, combined with developments in agriculture and small-scale trading, led to the desire for greater local autonomy throughout all levels of the social hierarchy.

He referred to himself as " the cholo " throughout his campaign, and many indigenous Peruvians hoped that as president he would bring greater attention to issues of importance to them.

The variation of coppicing known as coppice with standards ( scattered individual stems allowed to grow on through several coppice cycles ) has been commonly used throughout most of Europe as a means of giving greater flexibility in the resulting forest product from any one area.

Many of their classes are taught at smaller campuses throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

The colour of the horns is some shade of pale green or yellow throughout the greater part of their length, but the tips are black.