Intangible property is taxable wherever the owner has a place of abode the greater portion of the year.

There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.

Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

On the average, their workweek outside the home was several hours shorter than men's because a greater portion of them were employed only part-time or worked in the service sector, where hours were shorter than they were in manufacturing.

A portion of the people on Guam favor a modified version of the current Territorial status, involving greater autonomy from the federal government ( similar to the autonomy of individual States ).

The mixed public-private health care system in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with health care costing more per person than in any other nation, and a greater portion of gross domestic product ( GDP ) is spent on it than in any other United Nations member state except for East Timor ( Timor-Leste ).

When the odds of drawing a card that wins the pot are numerically higher than the pot odds, the call has a positive expectation ; on average, you win a portion of the pot that is greater than the cost of the call.

Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy became governor of the French portion of the island in 1638 Owing greater allegiance to the Knights of St John, he soon refused to accept the authority of the King of France.

If the product has an elastic demand, a greater portion of the tax will be absorbed by the seller.

Well under a tenth of orbital velocity from a small rocket thruster is enough to raise perigee if a design prioritizes minimizing such, but hybrid proposals optionally reduce requirements for the mass driver itself by having a greater portion of delta-v by a rocket burn ( or orbital momentum exchange tether ).

In telecommunication and astronomy, forward scatter is the deflection — by diffraction, nonhomogeneous refraction, or nonspecular reflection by particulate matter of dimensions that are large with respect to the wavelength in question but small with respect to the beam diameter — of a portion of an incident electromagnetic wave, in such a manner that the energy so deflected propagates in a direction that is within 90 ° of the direction of propagation of the incident wave ( i. e., the phase angle is greater than 90 °).

This is because the shark's vertebral column extends into that dorsal portion, providing a greater surface area for muscle attachment.

Any conformal map on a portion of Euclidean space of dimension greater than 2 can be composed from three types of transformation: a homothetic transformation, an isometry, and a special conformal transformation.

Another big changing factor is that Korea already has multi-ethnic, multi-cultural families appearing in great numbers, as one in every ten marriage is between a Korean and a foreigner, and in the rural side this portion is greater.

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 ").

It is included, or the greater portion, in the Canton of Zurich, but at its easterly end about 20 km² towards the southern shore are in Canton of Schwyz, and 10 km² towards its northern shore in Canton of St. Gallen.

The chief value of the Visigothic code consists in the fact that it is the only collection of Roman Law in which the five first books of the Theodosian code and five books of the Sententiae Receptae of Julius Paulus have been preserved, and until the discovery of a manuscript in the chapter library in Verona, which contained the greater part of the Institutes of Gaius, it was the only work in which any portion of the institutional writings of that great jurist had come down to us.

In Southern California, the highway is a heavily traveled commuter route serving the Northwest portion of the greater Los Angeles area ; this includes Ventura County communities in the West Conejo Valley and in the Oxnard Plain, along with Los Angeles County communities in the East Conejo Valley and San Fernando Valley.

In these cases, the contrast medium is thought to reach the vascular system via lymphovenous communications which shunt the material directly into the venous stream, bypassing those lymph nodes distal to the communications, Because less contrast agent is absorbed in lymph nodes, a greater portion of the injected volume passes into the vascular system.

Parts of it were sold in 205 BC and 199 BC, another part was divided among the citizens of the new colonies of Volturnum and Liternum, established near the coast in 194 BC, but the greater portion of it was reserved to be let by the state.

It is in the portion of the watershed between the Grande St Bernard Pass and the Simplon that the main chain maintains a greater average height than in any other part.

The Dolby preemphasis boosts the recorded level of the quieter audio signal at these higher frequencies during recording, effectively compressing the dynamic range of that portion of the signal, so that quieter sounds above 1 kHz receive a proportionally greater boost.

It contains the towns of Wakarusa and Cullen Village and the greater portion of Forbes Field ( airport ).

The general surface of the country is slightly rolling, though much more level than the greater portion of eastern Kansas.

It is wise to write out descriptive text ahead of time, and since the gamemaster cannot rely on his acting skills to get the personality of NPCs and monsters across, the need for music ( often considered a distraction in a normal table top game ) becomes much greater, as background music helps to set the mood for other players.

The famous 14th century Chinese text of the Huolongjing, which was the first to describe hollow cast iron cannonball shells filled with gunpowder, was also the first to describe the invention of the land mine in greater detail than references found in texts written beforehand.

The ability to use a familiar procedural language as the macro language gives power much greater than that of text substitution macros, at the expense of a larger and slower compiler.

By comparison, some popular Unix text editors such as vi and Emacs provide a significantly greater number of features than Pico, including regular expression search and replace and working with multiple files at the same time.

The Kebra Nagast is an Ethiopic text describing, in greater detail the relationship between King Solomon and Queen of Sheba.

" Many researchers have shown that having some prior knowledge about the topic of a passage enables both greater comprehension of the text and better memory for it.

* Transitions ( linguistics ), certain words, expressions, or other devices that give text or speech greater cohesion by making it more explicit

Jatis are elaborated in greater detail in the text Dattilam, composed around the same time as the Treatise.

Removing the First Law's " inaction " clause solves this problem but creates the possibility of an even greater one: a robot could initiate an action which would harm a human ( dropping a heavy weight and failing to catch it is the example given in the text ), knowing that it was capable of preventing the harm and then decide not to do so.

Though the consonants differ little from the text generally accepted in the early 2nd century ( and also differ little from some Qumran texts that are even older ), it has numerous differences of both greater and lesser significance when compared to ( extant 4th century ) manuscripts of the Septuagint, a Greek translation ( made in the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE ) of the Hebrew Scriptures that was in popular use in Egypt and Israel and that is believed by scholars to be the source often quoted in the New Testament.

To prevent a diplomatic incident, and over the objections of Knesset member Reuven Rivlin ( Likud ), who raised the matter in the Knesset, changes were made in the plaque's text, though to a greater degree in the English than the Hebrew version.

Both of these standards are capable of broadcasting audio of significantly greater fidelity than that of standard AM with current bandwidth limitations, and a theoretical frequency response of 0 – 16 kHz, in addition to stereo sound and text data.

This method often results in a fast, yet still fairly accurate translation due to greater ease of translating text to text, rather than audio to text.

The second edition, released in 1983, is presented in a cardboard box containing three booklets of rules, whose presentation is greatly improved compared to C & S1, the text is more airy and there is a tendency towards greater consistency in the organization rules.

Some critics believe that a clear-text edition gives the edited text too great a prominence, relegating textual variants to appendices that are difficult to use, and suggesting a greater sense of certainty about the established text than it deserves.

As Shillingsburg notes, " English scholarly editions have tended to use notes at the foot of the text page, indicating, tacitly, a greater modesty about the " established " text and drawing attention more forcibly to at least some of the alternative forms of the text ".

The main characteristic of the Western text is a love of paraphrase: " Words and even clauses are changed, omitted, and inserted with surprising freedom, wherever it seemed that the meaning could be brought out with greater force and definiteness.

The current edition features a greater emphasis on the main topic of globalization: a new first chapter offers an introductory overview of globalization and globalization theory, outlining the unique ways in which these topics are addressed throughout the text.

The nine dissenting Democratic Senators, along with Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle ( D-SD ), proposed as an alternative ( S. 753 ) the text of the 1998 Committee bill with its CRA provisions and the repeal of Sections 20 and 32, modified to provide greater permission for “ operating subsidiaries ” as requested by the Treasury Department.