A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.

The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.

He wrote that " the majority of the inhabitants of Southern Serbia are Orthodox Christian Macedonians, ethnologically more akin to the Bulgarians than to the Serbs.

* the vast majority of Asia, except East Timor and Indonesia ( mainly in Southern Hemisphere )

Air China owns 17. 5 % of Cathay Pacific ( second largest shareholder ) and the Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), an administrative agency of the State Council, owns majority and controlling stakes in China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Air China.

in the 20th century: Germans, the majority are Mennonites with long-reigned dictator Alfredo Stroessner himself of German ancestry, Japanese with Okinawans, Koreans, ethnic Chinese, Arabs, Ukrainians, Southern Europeans, Brazilians, and Argentines are among those who have settled in Paraguay.

The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was joined by the majority of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, mostly congregations in the border and Southern states, in 1906.

The Austrian Alps which cover the majority ( 62 %) of Austria's land mass, consists of most of the Eastern Alps together with the northern edge of the Southern Alps in the west and south of the country.

This worked against Clay, who had solid majority support in almost all of the Southern delegations ( with little potential for opponents to capitalize on a proportional distribution of delegates ), and a large minority support in Northern delegations ( with the potential for substantial proportional distributions in his favor eliminated ).

South Carolina and other Southern states, in the three decades preceding the Civil War, had provided legislatures in which the vested interests of land and slaves dominated in the upper houses, while the popular will of the numerical majority prevailed in the lower houses.

It is believed that they evolved first in the Southern Hemisphere, even though the majority of the fossils have been found in the Northern Hemisphere.

As the Northern Xiongnu declined under internal and external conflicts, the Southern Xiongnu received waves of new migrants, and by the end of the 1st c. CE a majority of the Xiongnu resided in China proper and along its northern borders.

The majority report by Republicans concluded that the government would not tolerate any Southern " conspiracy " to resist violently the Congressional Reconstruction.

In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.

Although the Song Dynasty had lost control of the traditional birthplace of Chinese civilization along the Yellow River, the Song economy was not in ruins, as the Southern Song Empire contained 60 percent of China's population and a majority of the most productive agricultural land.

( The Democratic Party held a two-thirds majority in the 89th Congress of 1965, but regional divisions among Democrats meant that many filibusters were invoked by Southern Democrats against civil rights bills supported by the Northern wing of the party ).

Many Southern states and school districts interpreted " Brown II " as legal justification for resisting, delaying, and avoiding significant integration for years — and in some cases for a decade or more — using such tactics as closing down school systems, using state money to finance segregated " private " schools, and " token " integration where a few carefully selected black children were admitted to former white-only schools but the vast majority remained in underfunded, unequal black schools.

It had been approved by the new States-General ( consisting of 55 members ) of the Northern Netherlands, but rejected by the majority of appointed electors ( 796 against 527 ) of the Southern Netherlands.

As is universal in the Florida Panhandle, a majority of Calhoun County's residents remain much more attached to Southern culture and lifestyle habits than is common in the Central and Southern regions of the state influenced by large amounts of migration, and the area holds much more in common with states such as Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi than with much of Florida.

No plebiscite was planned for Southern Schleswig, as it was dominated by an ethnic German majority and, in accordance with prevailing sentiment of the times, remained part of the post-war German state.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

More than 50 % of the county residents are Baptists, making it the most Northern majority Baptist county in the United States.

This law was made by the residents and founders of the town, a majority of them being Baptists.

The vast majority of the inhabitants are Christians — mostly Eastern Orthodox — and there are Catholics, Eastern Catholics and Protestant trends ( Adventists, Baptists and others ).

During the forty days leading up to Christmas, the Eastern Orthodox Church practices the Nativity Fast, while the majority of Christian congregations ( including the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, many Mainline churches, and Baptists ) begin observing the liturgical season of Advent four Sundays before Christmas — both are seen as times of spiritual cleansing, recollection and renewal to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Though the Christian Unity Association shared much in common with fellow mountain Baptists, they differed from the majority of them in three important points: ( 1 ) falling from grace ; ( 2 ) open communion ; and ( 3 ) women preachers.

This body divided in 1969, and the majority chose to affiliate with the General Association of Separate Baptists.

The conservatives were in the majority in Minnesota and Arizona, and the Northern Baptists lost those state agencies.

The majority of Old Regular Baptists hold to a doctrine that is between these extremes, with absolutism the smallest minority.

Free Will Baptists observe at least three ordinances: baptism, the Lord's Supper, and the Washing of the Saints ' Feet, a rite occurring among some other evangelical groups but not practiced by the majority of Baptist denominations.

The first and earliest was the General Baptist movement described above, known as the Palmer movement in North Carolina, from which the majority of modern-day Free Will Baptists have their origin.

This northern line of Free Will Baptists expanded rapidly, but the majority of the churches merged with the Northern Baptist Convention in 1911.

This church, and those churches of like faith that followed, remained aloof from the majority of Baptists in Texas.

A majority of Israel's Baptists live in the Galilee.

Its size reflects that the agenda of the body has more in common with the pacifism of the historic peace churches than the views of the majority of Baptists, even those that are otherwise engaged in peace efforts.

With the establishment of the Presbyterian Church of Wales nonconformism triumphed in Wales, and gradually the previously majority of conservative voices within it allied themselves with the more radical and liberal voices within the older dissenting churches of the Baptists and Congregationalists.

While many Christians tend to disagree with the practice, such as Roman Catholics and a majority of fundamentalist pastors, including Southern Baptists, the views taken by various other Christian denominations are diverse and often conflicting.

Catholics, Presbyterians, Salvation Army and Baptists also contribute to the Christian majority of the population.

This viewpoint is commonly held by Anabaptists and some Evangelical churches such as Baptists, many Pentecostals, Plymouth Brethren and segments of the Restoration Movement, but it is rejected by most branches of Christianity, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, the Church of the East, Independent Catholic Churches, Lutherans, Presbyterians and other traditional Calvinists, as well as the vast majority of Anglicans and Methodists, who variously affirm the doctrine of the real presence.