And the great majority of these people are of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

A recent survey disclosed there are about 4,000 commercially and municipally operated marinas and boatyards in the United States, the majority of which are equipped to handle outboard boats.

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.

And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.

the majority of such contacts are with people of similar social and economic position ; ;

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.

In the majority of species of caecilians, the young are produced by vivipary.

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 majority of scientific contributions by amateur astronomers are in the area of data collection.

Had the AMD been allowed to depreciate to its market level, exports would have become more competitive and the purchasing power of the majority of the population who are dependent on remittances from abroad would have increased.

The majority of lands in American Samoa and independent Samoa are communal.

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

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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.

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.

Once the game ends, the minority and majority bonuses are paid to the minority and majority holders in each of the remaining chains ; each player sells his or her shares of stock in each of the remaining chains ; and the player with the most money wins.

* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.

Agriculture supports more than 70 % of the labour force, the majority of whom are subsistence farmers.

A majority of the population of Mauritania depends on agriculture and livestock for a livelihood, even though most of the nomads and many subsistence farmers were forced into the cities by recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s.

The pre-colonial economy in Burma was essentially a subsistence economy, with the majority of the population involved in rice production and other forms of agriculture.

Although the majority of the population engages in subsistence agriculture and herding, Namibia has more than 200, 000 skilled workers, as well as a small, well-trained professional and managerial class.

Nevertheless, the majority of the population – about 75 percent — is employed in subsistence agriculture on Swazi Nation Land ( SNL ), which, in contrast, suffers from low productivity and investment.

Subsistence agriculture is the main economic activity in Togo ; the majority of the population depends on subsistence agriculture.

The majority of the population depend on subsistence farming, largely rice and cattle.

The tithe crossed the Atlantic with the Spanish Empire ; however, the Indians who made up the vast majority of the population in colonial Spanish America were exempted from paying tithes on native crops such as corn and potatoes that they raised for their own subsistence.

By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand persons served by the new church of St. George, built in 1840, the great majority of the men working in the copper mines with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture.

Because the overwhelming majority of highland Ethiopians are poor farming households that grow their own subsistence grain, wheat, barley, corn, and / or rice flour are sometimes used to replace some or all of the teff content.

At all times the great majority of Southern whites owned no slaves, and operated farms on a subsistence basis, serving small local markets.

The vast majority of the inhabitants of the region are subsistence farmers.

The majority of the Zairian population relied on an informal economy for their subsistence, since the official economy was not reliable.

The majority of Makaa are subsistence farmers.

The majority of Njyem are subsistence farmers.

Whilst this region contains numerous large cities, the most important being Lagos, Ibadan and Port Harcourt, both of which have grown into mega-cities since the 1970s, the majority of its population remains rural and dependent upon subsistence farming.

The majority of the inhabitants are subsistence farmers.

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The majority of the villagers are subsistence farmers of maize and rice.

However the great majority of families were headed by farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and laborers.

Urban and agricultural workers constituted the majority of the Red Guards, whereas land-owning farmers and well-educated people formed the backbone of the White Army.

The great majority were farmers, typically in a state of serfdom under the control of nobles and monasteries.

The German population reached about twenty million people, the great majority of whom were peasant farmers.

The great majority of Americans during this time were farmers working their own land, primarily for their own needs.

The Hutus, who comprise the majority of the population ( 85 %), are farmers of Bantu origin.

However, the great majority of manual workers, clerks, and farmers did not have enough property to qualify to vote.

Toledo walked a thin line in responding to both U. S. pressure to severely limit coca-production and protests by coca farmers against the eradication of coca production in poor, rural areas, where the majority of the population is involved in that business.

Most records show that the majority of early settlers were farmers.

Several of the county's largest farmers including the Rhea Family, Walker Family, German Family, Armour Family, Karcher Family and others control the vast majority of the county's wealth.

After the war, white planters and farmers tried to reestablish dominance over a majority of the population.

During prohibition, Stearns County became a large producer of moonshine with a majority of the farmers in the area distilling spirits.

During this time period the majority of Winslow residents were farmers.

The majority of the Quaker settlers of Chappaqua were farmers.

The South African plan called for a ruling white minority over a subjugated black majority providing a large pool of cheap labor for the Boer farmers and British sugar plantations and mines.

Despite its proximity to lead mines and salt springs, the majority of its population came as farmers during the 1750s and 1760s, and they primarily grew wheat, corn and tobacco.

The majority of the white farmers in Kok's territory sent a deputation to the British commissioner in Natal, Henry Cloete, asking for equal treatment with the Griquas, and expressing the desire to come under British protection under such terms.

One example of an oligopsony in the world economy is cocoa, where three firms ( Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, and Callebaut ) buy the vast majority of world cocoa bean production, mostly from small farmers in third-world countries.

Nkrumah's style and the promises he made appealed directly to the majority of workers, farmers, and youths who heard him ; he seemed to be the national leader on whom they could focus their hopes.

At the call of the UFA and farmers ' organizations in other provinces, the federal government ( whose razor-thin majority in the House of Commons was often widened by the support of farmer-friendly Progressive members ) created a new, mandatory agency, pending the appointment by the provincial governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan of a board of directors for the agency.

This was due greatly in part to fact that the majority of the families were silk farmers, a crop which requires a great deal of luck for success.

By 1840, that number had declined to 255 — the vast majority farmers and farm workers.