The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.

In textiles, as elsewhere, a major part of the solution lies in greater efficiency and higher productivity.

We have developed an ingenious method of interlocking these so that you can make the major part of your house in your own workshop, panel by panel, according to plan.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Hurricanes are quite common in the state, especially in the southern part, and major hurricanes occasionally strike the coast which can be very destructive.

The Berber peoples of the Maghreb in the early Middle Ages could be roughly classified into three major groups-the Zenata across the north, the Masmuda concentrated in central Morocco and the Sanhaja, clustered in two areas-the western part of the Sahara and the hills of the eastern Maghreb.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

Within this sonata form, the first group of the exposition starts out with a fugue before modulating to C major for the second part of the exposition.

The major cities are the capital Sarajevo, Banja Luka in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Bijeljina and Tuzla in the northeast, Zenica and Doboj in the central part of Bosnia and Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

Buses play a major part in the tourism industry.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

Although the use of aircraft has for the most part always been used as a supplement to land or naval engagements, since their first major military use in World War I aircraft have increasingly taken on larger roles in warfare.

Yet another plan, the North-South Rail Link that would have connected North and South Stations ( the major passenger train stations in Boston ), was part of the original Big Dig but was ultimately dropped by the Dukakis administration as an impediment to acquiring federal funding for the project.

This migration was part of a series of major population movements in the European barbaricum ( the Roman term for regions outside their empire ).

As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.

Early in the history of the college, there had been some hesitancy on the part of other institutions to accept BJC credits at face value, but by the 1960s, BJU alumni were being accepted by most of the major graduate and professional schools in the United States.

With no major Southern state remaining, Clinton targeted New York, which had many delegates.

The Cubs are one of the two remaining charter members of the National League ( the other being the Atlanta Braves ) and one of two active major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago White Sox of the American League.

Such machine-specific extensions have either disappeared over time or have had elements incorporated into the main standards ; the major remaining extension is OpenMP, which is a cross-platform extension for shared memory programming.

Fenway Park is one of the two remaining classic parks still in use in major league baseball ( the other being Wrigley Field ), and both have a significant number of obstructed view seats, due to pillars supporting the upper deck.

In theory, the new Senate consisted of a broad national coalition, but in practice, with the main political groups unwilling to compromise and the most experienced politicians remaining outside it, the cabinet proved unable to solve any major local Finnish problems.

Arbenz together with Arévalo further promoted the progressive social change that characterized the latter's presidency, clearing much of the old restrictions on political parties and labour unions, while also purging the army brass of its remaining pro-Arana officers — one of whom was Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas ; a man who would play a major role in Guatemalan politics in the coming years.

The remaining genera of hamsters formed a third major clade.

These substances, major constituents of bauxite, are known as laterites and are formed by leeching from rocks of most of the ions other than aluminium and iron and subsequent hydrolysis of the remaining aluminium and iron.

Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.

The keys for the remaining five notes — which are not part of the C major scale —( i. e., C / D, D / E, F / G, G / A, A / B ) ( see Sharp and Flat ) are raised and shorter.

Although unofficial, ties remained close, with Israel remaining a major donor to Niger.

According to the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages, four of the six major dialects of Occitan ( Provençal, Auvergnat, Limousin and Languedocien ) are considered " severely endangered ", while the remaining two ( Gascon and Vivaro-Alpine ) are considered " definitely endangered " (" severely endangered " essentially means that only elderly people still speak the language fluently, while " definitely endangered " means that adults speak the language but are not passing it on to their children ).

Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808, the capture of the Spanish king, Ferdinand VII, and Napoleon's attempt to put his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, on the Spanish throne, severed the major remaining links between metropolis and satellite.

During World War Two, the Swiss franc was the only remaining major freely convertible currency in the world, and both the Allies and the Germans sold large amounts of gold to the Swiss National Bank.

The first crew was able to save it in the first ever in-space major repair, by deploying a replacement heat shade and freeing the single remaining, jammed main solar array.

Approximately half of the tungsten is consumed for the production of hard materials — namely tungsten carbide — with the remaining major use being in alloys and steels.

* Other major economies included Canada ( U. S. $ 1. 34 trillion ; 10th, down from 9th ), India ( U. S. $ 1. 31 trillion ; remaining at 11th from 12th ), Russia ( U. S. $ 1. 23 trillion ; from 16th to 12th ) Mexico ( U. S. $ 875 billion ; 14th, down from 11th ), Australia ( U. S. $ 925 billion ; from 14th to 13th ) and South Korea ( U. S. $ 832 billion ; 15th, down from 13th ).

The Deutsche Bank building ( formerly the J. P Morgan headquarters ) is the last remaining major investment bank to still have its headquarters on Wall Street.

In a preferential voting system, a voter can vote for a minor party candidate as their first choice, and in addition, they can record a preference between the remaining candidates, whether they are in a " major party " or not.

It is the oldest National League ballpark and the second oldest active major league ballpark ( after Fenway Park on April 20, 1912 ), and the only remaining Federal League park.

In the mid and late third century BCE, the Qin accomplished a series of swift conquests, first ending the powerless Zhou Dynasty, and eventually destroying the remaining six states of the major states to gain control over the whole of China, resulting in a unified China.

After another campaign in 1303 / 1304, Stirling Castle, the last major Scottish held stronghold, fell to the English, and in February 1304, negotiations led to most of the remaining nobles paying homage to Edward and to the Scots all but surrendering.

The major remaining independent Greek settlement was Neapolis, and when the town was eventually captured by the Samnites, the Neapolitans were in need of help.

The 76th was in most of the major battles the Army of the Potomac fought from Second Bull Run through Petersburg, at which time the three-year enlistment of most of the men ran out and the 300 or so men remaining from the 1, 100 who left Cortland either returned home or transferred to other units.

The band continued to tour until major heart surgery for Wetton in the second half of the year saw remaining tour dates rescheduled for 2008.