Those with the greatest initial disability tend to show the greatest improvement among test groups.

Mill described Hare's system as " the greatest improvement of which the system of representative government is susceptible ; an improvement which … exactly meets and cures the grand, and what before seemed inherent, defect of the representative system ".

Consequently, “ the decay of population is the greatest evil that a state can suffer ; and the improvement of it the object which ought, in all countries, to be aimed at in preference to every other political purpose whatsoever .” More recently a similar view has been expressed by Smart who argued that all other things being equal a universe with two million happy people is better than a universe with only one million happy people.

This report was the " prime mover " and made the " single greatest contribution of its kind to the improvement of emergency medical services ".

In 1853 it published an anonymous and unfavourable review of Charles Dickens ’ Bleak House, later revealed to be by George Brimley, typical of the paper's enduring contempt for him as a ‘ popular ’ writer " amusing the idle hours of the greatest number of readers ; not, we may hope, without improvement to their hearts, but certainly without profoundly affecting their intellects or deeply stirring their emotions.

Older books about Alfred the Great include the legend, for example: Jacob Abbott's 1849 Alfred the Great says that " One of the greatest and most important of the measures which Alfred adopted for the intellectual improvement of his people was the founding of the great University of Oxford.

The greatest improvement of quality of life was observed among the most impaired patients.

The Navy annually awards the Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy to " the ship or aircraft squadron from each coast selected for having achieved the greatest improvement in battle efficiency during the calendar year, based upon the Battle Efficiency Competition.

As a relatively new university, AUT came in eight place in the most recent ( 2006 ) Performance-Based Research Fund ( PBRF ) round, but has shown the greatest improvement in PBRF rating of New Zealand's eight universities.

On the basis of the results of the 2008 RAE Plymouth joined the top 50 UK universities, showing the greatest improvement in the UK in research performance since the last RAE, in 2001.

While the revolutionary and timeless DS achieved its greatest sales success at the same point in its 20-year lifecycle, the CX design was subject to more intense competitive pressures from other automakers, who succeeded in using the CX design as a template for improvement.

He devoted himself principally to the improvement of his estates and the condition of the peasantry, and became known as ‘ the best farmer and the greatest planter in the country ; his wheat and turnips showed the one, his plantation of a million of pines the other ’.

However, the greatest contribution to the relative improvement of the Dutch position in 1628 was made by the fact that Spain overextended itself again, when it participated in the War of the Mantuan Succession.

This diversification is greatest for nations with more industry and improvement, and is responsible for " universal opulence " in those countries.

When Montyon died, he bequeathed 12, 000 francs for the perpetual endowment of each of the following prizes: for the discovery of the means of rendering some mechanical process less dangerous to the workman ; for the perfecting of any technical improvement in a mechanical process ; for the book which during the year rendered the greatest service to humanity ; the " prix de vertu " for the most courageous act on the part of a poor Frenchman ; the awards being left as before to the learned academies.

The four men debate a series of three topics: ( 1 ) the relative merit of classical drama ( upheld by Crites ) vs. modern drama ( championed by Eugenius ); ( 2 ) whether French drama, as Lisideius maintains, is better than English drama ( supported by Neander, who famously calls Shakespeare " the greatest soul, ancient or modern "); and ( 3 ) whether plays in rhyme are an improvement upon blank verse drama -- a proposition that Neander, despite having defended the Elizabethans, now advances against the skeptical Crites ( who also switches from his original position and defends the blank verse tradition of Elizabethan drama ).

The greatest improvement in the Series II though, was its new engine.

More importantly, degree of improvement was found to be reliably related to the initial TOVA score of each participant, with the lowest initial TOVA scores exhibiting the greatest improvement.

The three-story press box, the second largest in the nation, was the greatest improvement in terms of upgrades, as the former press box was barely thirty feet long and only could hold approximately 50 people.

GameSpot thought the new single Cyber Elf was an improvement, while Jeremy Parish of 1up. com stated that it signalled a return " to the old-fashion Mega Man game structure ", which he found " unfortunate since the Zero games ' greatest strength was their willingness to break the trite and true Mega Man mold ".

While the team did not have the greatest amount of success under his leadership a steady improvement was made on the performances of the disastrous 1994-95 season.

Buffalo coach Buster Ramsey, who has become one of the game's greatest collectors of quarterbacks, apparently now has found a productive pair in two ex-National Football Leaguers, M. C. Reynolds and Warren Rabb.

He feels himself obliged to metamorphose my historical sketch of the genesis of capitalism in Western Europe into an historico-philosophic theory of the marche generale imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself, in order that it may ultimately arrive at the form of economy which will ensure, together with the greatest expansion of the productive powers of

The 6th Duke had inherited Chatsworth fifteen years earlier and had previously shown little interest in improving the neglected garden, but he soon formed a productive and extravagantly funded partnership with Paxton, who proved to be the most innovative garden designer of his era, and remains the greatest single influence on Chatsworth's garden.

These four great deposits of mineral wealth were incredibly productive, and constituted the greatest industrial asset that the Colony possessed.

The greatest commercial successes of that period were achieved on the German market which was also the largest at that time, in a productive partnership with Grimex Company.

One of its greatest grievances was the expropriation of the most productive land by British settlers from African farmers.

He spent his entire 13-year career with the Colts, and is widely considered as one of the greatest and most productive wide receivers in NFL history.

It encompassed the courage to dissent expressed in the maxim " The greatest jihad is to utter a word of truth in the presence of a tyrannical ruler " ( a hadith reported by Abu Sa ' id al-Khudri ) as well as any productive activity that Muslims undertook, on their own initiative, to improve the well-being of the Islamic community.

The early 1960s were Gibbs ' most productive period in Test cricket, and his greatest achievements came in the 1961 – 62 home series against India.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

The Chola Dynasty of medieval India was known as a one of the greatest naval powers of its time from 300BC-1279AD.

Hailed as one of the greatest of the Roman pontiffs after his reforms proved successful, Gregory was, during his own reign, despised by some for his expansive use of papal powers.

By the middle of the 17th century the Realm of Sweden had reached its greatest territorial extent and was one of the great powers of Europe.

It was that fear, that caution, that understanding, that perception on the part of Russia and its leaders that was the real deterrent against Russia committing the utterly irrational and suicidal act of plunging into a third world war in which the Soviet Union would be likely to find itself confronting a combination of the greatest industrial and economic powers in the world ".

' It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda '; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best – chosen language.

** Spurious-free dynamic range ( SFDR ) indicates in dB the ratio between the powers of the converted main signal and the greatest undesired spur.

Mayer argues that Joseph was an excessively belligerent, expansionist leader, who sought to make the Habsburg monarchy the greatest of the European powers.

Within Theravada Buddhism emerges the view that the Buddha was human, endowed with the greatest psychic powers ( Kevatta Sutta ).

However, his greatest feat of conjure was using his powers to help free the Hebrews from slavery.

This defeat made them clear to many Carbonari that militarily, especially if alone, they could not compete with Austria, one of the greatest powers of the Old Continent: Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the most acute Carbonari.

An estate in fee simple denotes the maximum ownership in land that can be legally granted ; it is the greatest possible aggregate of rights, powers, privileges and immunities available in land.

Some U. S. commentators believed that this warming of relations between the two greatest powers of the Cold War should lead to a " peace dividend " where U. S. military spending would be drastically reduced.

By the first World War New Zealand and South Africa had established themselves as rugby's two greatest powers.

The custom of decorating pysanky was observed with greatest care, and a pysanka, after receiving the Easter blessing, was held to have great powers as a talisman.

In this timeline, Future Static is known as one of the greatest heroes in the world and his powers have increased greatly during the last couple years.

As Devine ( 1999 ) concludes, " Johnson was a giant figure in Scottish politics and is revered to this day as the greatest Scottish Secretary of the century .... In essence, Johnson was promised the powers of a benign dictator.

Unlike the League, the UN had the active participation of the United States and the Soviet Union, the world's two greatest contemporary powers.

In the Salamanca campaign ( 1812 ) the result of Clausels work was shown in the marching powers of the French, and at the battle of Salamanca, Clausel, who had succeeded to the command when Marmont was wounded, and had himself received a severe wound, drew off his army with the greatest skill.

He shares Ben's prophetic dreams and slowly discovers the extent of his own unearthly powers, which include bending human beings to his will and making their sins and greatest evils manifest as terrifying visions.

Europe and Asia contain the great powers, which have the greatest military and economic impact on international politics, and the Middle East is a primary source of oil for much of the developed world.

She died at the age of thirty-five in 1943, just as she was reaching the peak of her powers as a singer and about to achieve her greatest dream: to star in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.

Although Rider was understandably upset at Night Thrasher for risking his life, the fact that the incident allowed him to regain his powers, his greatest desire, made him feel obliged to join the team.