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However, the couple have spent the majority of their time at the modest La Zarzuela Palace, a former hunting lodge on the El Pardo estate on the outskirts of Madrid.
Released at a time when the Sony PlayStation was at its peak of popularity, Virtual Game Station was the first PlayStation emulator, for any platform, that enabled games to run at full speed on modest computer hardware, and the first that supported the vast majority of PlayStation games.
Furthermore, many believe that Vázquez's opposition to legalising abortion and threats to veto any pro-choice legislation passed by the government-a position that stands in contrast with the opinions of both the majority of his governing coalition and the majority of Uruguayans-have made a modest dent in his public support.
Throughout his rule, no major reforms were initiated and the few proposed reforms were either very modest or opposed by the majority of the Soviet leadership.
Coming from a modest background he signified the groups majority ; the hard working middle class.
Now, in common with many village churches, the congregation of the church is modest and the majority of villagers are not involved.
The majority of Presley's movies aimed for little more than reliable returns on modest investments and the promotion of their accompanying soundtrack albums.
The Progressive Conservatives made a modest recovery in the 1990 provincial election, although Pollock lost his seat to Buchanan amid a provincial majority government victory for the NDP.
Shotgun houses and 2½ story Victorians, more modest than those on the east side of Bardstown Road, make up the majority of the stock in the oldest sections, while modest craftsmen-style houses dominate streets further out, and a few small ranch style homes can be found west of Norris Place.
In their opinion, the Court noted: " There is little doubt that many photographs, probably the overwhelming majority, reflect at least the modest amount of originality required for copyright protection ....

majority and number
The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.
In pure water the majority of molecules exist as H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, but a small number of molecules are constantly dissociating and re-associating.
The player with the largest number of shares is the " majority " shareholder, and the player with the second-largest number of shares is the " minority " shareholder.
We can run the algorithm a constant number of times and take a majority vote to achieve any desired probability of correctness less than 1, using the Chernoff bound.
Over succeeding decades the number of societies has decreased, as various societies merged to form larger ones, often renaming in the process, and other societies opted for demutualisation followed by-in the great majority of cases-eventual takeover by a listed bank.
It was alleged that the directors had issued a large number of new shares purely to deprive a particular shareholder of his voting majority.
# the Mozarabic Breviary, once in use throughout all Spain, but now confined to a single foundation at Toledo ; it is remarkable for the number and length of its hymns, and for the fact that the majority of its collects are addressed to God the Son ;
Official sources only states “ the majority of the population is mulatto ” (“… maioritariamente mestiça …”) without stating any number.
The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.
The majority of the North American Bereans re-joined the main body of Christadelphians in 1952 ; though a small number continue as a separate community to the present day.
Although complex, the transistor count of CISC decoders do not grow exponentially like the total number of transistors per processor ( the majority typically used for caches ).
The majority of these are controlled by Dublin Bus, but a number of smaller companies also operate.
The number of Druze people worldwide exceeds one million, with the vast majority residing in the Levant or East Mediterranean.
In 1891 Pope Leo XIII promulgated Rerum Novarum, in which he addressed the " misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class " and spoke of how " a small number of very rich men " had been able to " lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself .".
This calculation depends on a number of variables, such as its performance in opinion polls and the size of its majority.
The vast majority of New Testament scholars hold 1 Thessalonians to be authentic, although a number of scholars in the mid-19th century contested its authenticity, most notably Clement Schrader and F. C.
Subsequently, networks facilitating the process of money transfer and payment settlement between the consumer and the merchant grew from a small number of nationwide systems to the majority of payment processing transactions.
Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".
The majority of the vocabulary of ancient Greek was inherited, but it does include a number of borrowings from the languages of the populations that inhabited Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greeks.
Those texts characterized the tactic of guerrilla warfare as, according to Che Guevara's text, being " used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression ".
After the end of World War I, the majority of the United Kingdom gunpowder manufacturers merged into a single company, " Explosives Trades limited "; and number of sites were closed down, including those in Ireland.
However the majority of East Germans over time increasingly regarded the state's ideals to be hollow, though there was also a substantial number of East Germans who regarded their culture as having a healthier, more authentic mentality than that of West Germany.

majority and instrumental
The hawala system in Afghanistan is also instrumental in providing financial services for the delivery of emergency relief and humanitarian and developmental aid for the majority of international and domestic NGOs, donor organizations, and development aid agencies.
Haley, who was fluent in Spanish, recorded a number of songs in the language, but the vast majority of the band's output during these years were instrumental recordings, many utilizing local session musicians playing trumpet.
In addition to the songwriting prowess of the writers and producers, one of the major factors in the widespread appeal of Motown's music was Gordy's practice of using a highly select and tight-knit group of studio musicians, collectively known as " The Funk Brothers ", to record the instrumental or " band " tracks of a majority of Motown recordings.
He was instrumental in persuading the rebel leader, Ian Smith, to accept proposals for a transition to African majority rule.
With three Senators, UDEUR was instrumental to ensure a narrow centre-left majority in the Italian Senate.
Sarnoff was instrumental in building and established the AM broadcasting radio business which became the preeminent public radio standard for the majority of the 20th century.
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson campaigned for the U. S. to join the new League of Nations, which he had been instrumental in creating, but he rejected the Republican compromise on the issue and it was impossible to gain a 2 / 3 majority.
In this role, he was instrumental in the Unionist leader Arthur Balfour's plans to obstruct Liberal policies through the Unionist majority in the upper house.
The majority of Tenney's mature works ( post-1964 ) are instrumental pieces, often for unconventional instrumental combinations ( e. g. Glissade for viola, cello, double bass and tape delay system ( 1982 ), Bridge for two pianos eight hands in a microtonal tuning system ( 1982 – 84 ), Changes for six harps tuned a sixth of a tone apart, 1985 ) or for variable instrumentation ( Critical Band, 1988, In a Large Open Space, 1994 ).
" Pitchfork Media, in their review of Senior, said that " the kind of downtempo stuff that makes up the majority of Röyksopp's vocal-less compositions just doesn't hold up to concentrated, repeated listens like many other forms of instrumental electronic music.
A majority of the churches tend to primitivism, rejecting a trained ministry, Sunday Schools, and even instrumental music.
Mintoff was instrumental in convincing his parliamentary colleagues to support constitutional amendments ensuring a parliamentary majority for the party achieving an absolute majority of votes.
The majority of opposition to the idea of instrumental music being ‘ absolute ’ came from Richard Wagner and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Embracing The Wildhearts ' anarchist approach, " while focusing on dissonance and just being as over-the-top as could ", Townsend sang on the record and performed the majority of its instrumental tracks ( with the assistance of a drum machine ).
Flairck started as an instrumental group, playing acoustic instruments and composing the majority of its own material.
In time, the usage of the " smooth jazz " name was taken very liberally as WJZA shifted to a hybrid of Adult Contemporary, Urban AC, and instrumental covers, while the majority of WJZA's programming was soon derived from Broadcast Architecture's " Your Smooth Jazz " service, which chiefly operated under this hybrid style.
This filibuster was instrumental in delaying the privatisation until after the 1983 general election, but with Margaret Thatcher obtaining a massive parliamentary majority the privatisation was soon forced through.
The majority of vocal tracks feature guest MCs, and the album features several instrumental montages of sampled vocals from old movies and TV shows — a technique employed on most of Dumile's albums.
The majority of singles from 13 Ways also received significant radio play and were instrumental in launching Cold into the mainstream music scene.
The majority of the record is instrumental.
According to conservative pundit John Podhoretz, Bush was instrumental in helping to revert Senate control back to the Republicans with a two-seat majority, defying the conventional wisdom that the party in power will lose seats mid-term.
Murphy played the majority of the instrumental parts on LCD soundsystem's albums himself.

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