The current prevalent theories are that the initial arrival of humans to the continent took place either along the Pacific coast southwards in a rather rapid expansion long preceding the Clovis culture, or even trans-Pacific migration.

However, harsh working conditions were prevalent long before the Industrial Revolution took place.

Pre-industrial society was very static and often cruel — child labour, dirty living conditions, and long working hours were just as prevalent before the Industrial Revolution.

River transport is especially prevalent in Sarawak because there are many large and long rivers with Rajang River being the most used river in Sarawak.

The language long continued to be prevalent in Lower Burma until the mid-19th century for the region was still mainly populated by the Mon.

A long allele was found to be approximately 3 times more prevalent in breast cancer patients ( germline ) than in cancer-free patients ( p < 0. 01 ) and thus may be a risk marker.

The three week long summer Gaeltacht courses give young Irish people from other parts of the country a chance to learn the Irish language and traditional Irish cultural traditions that are still prevalent in parts of Donegal.

For example, studies have shown chewing betel nut is prevalent among taxi, bus and truck drivers, who rely on the stimulating effect of betel nut to cope with long work hours.

This remoteness allowed for him to survive in the countryside long after the more prevalent gods had ceased to be worshipped.

What he is claiming is that all that will happen in the future ( even if totalitarianism returns ) is that democracy will become more and more prevalent in the long term, although it may have ' temporary ' setbacks ( which may, of course, last for centuries ).

But the geonic practice of not reciting the Kol Nidre was long prevalent ; it has never been adopted in the Catalonian or in the Algerian ritual.

To accommodate the king, the grand seventeenth-century Town Hall of Amsterdam, prime example of the republican values that were prevalent for so long in the Netherlands, was converted into a Royal Palace.

Although, the poets of the Song Dynasty drew on a long tradition of poetry, perhaps especially those forms which were prevalent in the Tang Dynasty.

This for a long time has been the most prevalent defense of toleration by liberals ... It is found, for example, in the writings of American philosophers John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Ronald Dworkin, Brian Barry, and a Canadian, Will Kymlicka, among others.

The death of Dundee, in the midst and the confusion of a cavalry charge, formed the subject of numerous legends, the best known of which is the long prevalent but of course entirely false tradition that he was invulnerable to lead ( due to a deal with the devil ) and was killed by a silver button from his own coat.

Similarly, deer designs were very prevalent as they were intended to bring prosperity and long life ; the stag represented leadership, victory, joy and masculinity.

The prevalent Brittle Books issue facing libraries across the world is being addressed with a digital solution for long term book preservation.

DSS are also prevalent in forest management where the long planning time frame demands specific requirements.

Sea serpents, with their glowing eyes and long manes, are also prevalent in Scandinavian folklore, as well as their invisible kin the sea-whip.

The attitude in the UK was very much the same as that of continental Europe in the early 20th century ; dogs were considered beneficial as long as they did not cost money or require special training, an attitude that still appears to be prevalent in many police departments around the world today.

Today, Coral Gables is one of Miami's most expensive suburban communities, long known for its strict zoning regulations which preserve the City Beautiful elements along with its Mediterranean Revival architecture style, which is prevalent throughout the city.

However, the linguistic elements that traditionally defined this area, such as use of doon instead of down and substitution of-ang noise in words that end-ong ( lang instead of long ), are now prevalent only in the more northern parts of the region ; these linguistic features may reflect a more modern interpretation of where the line sits today.

The prevalent view in some of these grammars is the use of David Qimchi's system of division of the graphic signs into " short " and " long " vowels.

It is highly unlikely, however, that the same deleterious mutations will be prevalent in both populations after a long period of separation.

The estimation process is difficult and can be inaccurate ; in particular, liability ( or long-tail ) policies tend to produce claims long after the policies are written.

It is important to note that this formula is based on the linear characteristics of the gradient of and therefore it is a good estimation for the standard deviation of as long as are small compared to the partial derivatives.

The auditory system uses this short time frame for evaluating the sound source direction, and keeps this detected direction as long as reflections and reverberation prevent an unambiguous direction estimation.

" His letter of introduction claimed that “ The Jewish nations have been scattered abroad among the Gentiles for a long period ; and in our estimation, the time of the commencement of their return to the Holy Land has already arrived .”

As taxa are added, they often break up long branches ( especially in the case of fossils ), effectively improving the estimation of character state changes along them.

However, in statistics, it has been long recognized that requiring even local minimization is too restrictive for some problems of maximum-likelihood estimation, as shown for example by Thomas Ferguson's example.

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His sermons and devotional writings, which are very numerous, were long held in high estimation, and his Commentary on the Historical and Poetical Books of the Old Testament, in 10 vols., brought down as far as the Song of Solomon, was reprinted as recently as 1853.

Priscillian casts a long shadow in the north of Hispania and the south of Gaul, where mystic asceticism has repeatedly been carried to extremes that the political mainstream has denounced as heretical.

Priscillian was long honored as a martyr, not heretic, especially in Gallaecia ( modern Galicia and northern Portugal ), where his body was reverentially returned from Trier.

It was long thought that all the writings of the heretic himself had perished, but in 1885, Georg Schepss discovered at the University of Würzburg eleven genuine tracts, published in the Vienna Corpus 1886.

It was long thought that all the writings of the " heretic " himself had perished, but in 1885, Georg Schepss discovered at the University of Würzburg eleven genuine tracts, published in the Vienna Corpus 1886.

It has long been speculated, as well as much-disputed, that the body found in this tomb was that of the famous ' heretic king ' Akhenaten.

He added: " We are in some danger of resting our position too exclusively upon the existence, the nature and the wishes of the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands ... if the population of the Falkland Islands did not desire to be British, the principle that the Queen wishes no unwilling subjects would long ago have prevailed ; but we should create great difficulties for ourselves in other contexts, as well as in this context, if we rested our action purely and exclusively on the notion of restoring tolerable, acceptable conditions and self-determination to our fellow Britons on the Falkland Islands ....

The introduction of compulsory gymnastics in Swedish schools in 1880 rested partly on a long tradition, from Renaissance humanism to the Enlightenment, of the importance of physical as well as intellectual training.

Nijō Castle in Kyoto is constructed with long " nightingale " floors, which rested on metal hinges ( uguisu-bari ) specifically designed to squeak loudly when walked over.

For a time these men rested, but not for long.

This actus reus was a continuing state of affairs for so long as the car rested on the officer's foot and the mens rea was formed before the car was removed.

The introduction of compulsory gymnastics in Swedish schools in 1880 rested partly on a long tradition, from Renaissance humanism to the Enlightenment, of the importance of physical as well as intellectual training.

In truth, however, the real power had rested with the regional governors for some time, as long as they did not try to cross the Emperor.

On long duration flights, mission planners schedule off duty time for each crew member to keep them well rested throughout the flight.

This bridge, completed in 1875, was 480 m long and 14 m wide and rested on 24 pontoons.

The wealth and power of the sultans had long rested on the control of the economy.

A few hours after this preliminary skirmish, a messenger from the town reported to Talbot's troops, as they rested from a night long march, that the French army was in full retreat, and that hundreds of horsemen were fleeing the fortifications.

The streamlined three-car train was a single articulated unit ; the two outer coaches were each 64ft long and rested on a centre coach that was 52ft long.

After the long jump, sprint, shotput and hurdles, the fate of each team rested on the relay race.

Approximately 200 rested and well-equipped Poles under Bronisz distracted the British long enough to let the withdrawing Captain Młokosiewicz regroup his force and strike the right flank of the British line.

The current Church building is situated on the same site as the predeceasing Saxon church, which is notable for St Cuthbert ’ s body having rested here on its long wandering journey before finally being laid to rest at Durham Cathedral.

Besides Nolte, Wehler also attacked the work of Michael Stürmer as " a strident declaration of war against a key element of the consensus upon which the socio-political life of this second republic has rested heretofore " During the Historikerstreit, Wehler was one of the few historians who endorsed Jürgen Habermas's method of attacking Andreas Hillgruber by creating a sentence about " tested senior officials in Nazi Party in the East " out of a long sentence in which Hillgruber had said no such thing on the grounds that it was a secondary issue of no real importance.

To protect against Indian raids near the pine forest, the civilian contractors had constructed a corral made by removing 14 of the wooden boxes that rested on the chassis of wagons and placing them on the ground in an oval 60-70 feet ( 20 mts ) long and 25-30 feet ( 8-9 mts ) wide.

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