" Mark L. Strauss has stated that the majority of changes are " based on advances in biblical scholarship, linguistics, and archaeology ".

For the majority of scholars who accept Markan priority, a further problem is explaining the " double tradition " material which is found in both Matthew and Luke but not in Mark.

The majority of the characters were split into two sides: the righteous " Powers that Be ", and the villainous " Opposition ", the leader of which was Lord Fear played by Mark Knight.

The majority of the inhabitants of the village — male and female — are played by Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, and the script was written by these three, along with Jeremy Dyson.

A fight between Fedor Emelianenko and Mark Coleman in the Japanese, ring-based Pride Fighting Championships | Pride organization. On March 27, 2007, the UFC and their Japan-based rival the Pride Fighting Championships announced an agreement in which the majority owners of the UFC, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, would purchase the Pride brand.

During the same year, Mark King released his first solo album Influences on which he played the majority of the instruments ( with a guest appearance by Aswad's Drummie Zeb, and with Lindup guesting on additional keyboards ).

A lawyer who filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of members and former members of the Pennsylvania legislature, State Rep. Mark B. Cohen of Philadelphia, said that O ' Connor's majority decision in Grutter v. Bollinger was a " ringing affirmation of the goal of an inclusive society.

Mark Edward Nero of About. com stated, " In general, neo-soul has remained almost exclusive to R & B outlets such as urban radio and Black Entertainment Television [...] the majority of neo-soul artists have yet to crossover to mainstream American music listeners, partially because the music's sound generally focuses on artist expression, rather than popular appeal ".

Because of patristic evidence from the late 2nd century for the existence of copies of Mark with the " Longer Ending ," it is contended by a majority of scholars that the " Longer Ending " must have been written and attached no later than the early 2nd century.

According to the majority viewpoint, Mark was the first gospel written.

After being unable to reach favorable agreements with arena management which was controlled by the venue's primary tenant, the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League, majority owner Mark Bloom sold the franchise in December 2001 to Virgil Williams, an Atlanta businessman, for nearly $ 10 million.

The now incomplete codex has the text of the Gospel of Matthew and the majority of the Gospel of Mark, with only one lacuna ( Mark 16: 14-20 ).

The town is generally seen as a conservative area, and this can be backed up by the fact that in the 2010 national elections Mark Prisk was elected for the Conservative Party with a majority of the votes cast ( 53. 8 %).

The majority of the other gremlins voices were performed by Mark Dodson.

Although she did not win an absolute majority of the votes, Lawrence topped the poll and was elected President, taking office on 1 January 2004, shortly after Mark Latham succeeded Crean as party Leader.

Sir Paul Getty was chairman of John Wisden & Co from 1993 until his death in 2003, and he was succeeded as majority shareholder by his son Mark.

He retained the seat for Plaid Cymru at the 2001 election with a reduced majority, and lost it in the 2005 general election to Mark Williams of the Liberal Democrats .|

He was returned at the 2001 election with a slightly increased majority of 1, 829, but at the 2005 election he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Mark Lancaster whose 1, 665 majority represented a 3. 6 % swing.

Scholars, such as Mark Stoyle, have argued that the Catholic Church had " proved itself extremely accommodating of Cornish language and culture " and that government attacks on the traditional religion had reawakened the spirit of defiance in Cornwall, and in particular the majority Cornish-speaking far west.

The Mark II used a diesel version of the engine and the Mark IV a GMC ' Detroit ' diesel ; these were the majority of those used in the desert campaigns.

On August 30, 2010, Pattiz stepped down from the board and was succeeded as chairman by Mark Stone, Senior Managing Director of the Gores Group, which by then was majority owner and controlled Westwood.

The ships were inferior and under-gunned compared to other nations ' steel navies ; the majority of U. S. warships were made from wood or iron and relied on wind power.

The majority of marine reactors are of the pressurized water type, although the US and Soviet navies have designed warships powered with liquid metal cooled reactors.

The Gazeta newspaper noted that by 2015 the majority of the warships would no longer be fit for duty.

The majority of warships launched at Portsmouth following the end of the War were cruisers — Effingham in 1921, Suffolk in 1926, London in 1927, Dorsetshire in 1929, Neptune in 1933, and Amphion and Aurora in 1934.

The majority of model warships built for model warship combat are constructed from scratch or partial kits in 1 / 144 scale although some exist in other scales.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.

The Germanic elites were Arians, and the majority population was Nicene.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

He was the first who had a godly zeal for the truth in philosophy and despised the views of the majority, which were a disgrace to philosophy.

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

These were larger than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

The governors were appointed from both Catholic and Protestant cantons and since they changed every two years, neither faith gained a majority in the County.

Important early anthroposophists who were Jewish included Karl König, the founder of the Camphill movement, and a majority of the executive board of the original Anthroposophical Society.

Artillery is the most lethal form of land-based armament ; in the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II the vast majority of combat deaths were caused by artillery.

The services in the majority of the chapels were in Welsh.

" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

His superior command of Greek, and the fact that the vast majority of his writings were in Greek, led some in the West to claim that he was a Greek born in Alexandria.

Amok was officially classified as a psychiatric condition in 1849 based on the numerous reports and case studies which showed that the majority of individuals who committed amok were, in some sense, mentally ill.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.

Pompey had the backing of a majority of the senators, of whom many were optimates, and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions.