In 1997, an estimated 1. 5 million water birds, the majority being Northern Pintails, died from avian botulism during two outbreaks in Canada and Utah.

Another study, which examined the effects of predators – including the Eurasian Sparrowhawk and introduced Grey Squirrel – on UK passerine populations, found that " whilst a small number of associations may suggest significant negative effects between predator and prey species, for the majority of the songbird species examined there is no evidence that increases in common avian predators or Grey Squirrels are associated with large-scale population declines.

Thus, a robust surveillance system involving human clinicians and veterinarians may identify a bioweapons attack early in the course of an epidemic, permitting the prophylaxis of disease in the vast majority of people ( and / or animals ) exposed but not yet ill.

Thus, a robust surveillance system involving human clinicians and veterinarians may identify a bioweapons attack early in the course of an epidemic, permitting the prophylaxis of disease in the vast majority of people ( and / or animals ) exposed but not yet ill.

The majority of tissue processed comes from slaughterhouses, but also includes restaurant grease and butcher shop trimmings, expired meat from grocery stores, and the carcasses of euthanized and dead animals from animal shelters, zoos and veterinarians.

Second, the shift to a uniform July 1 to June 30 fiscal year will, of itself, improve the tax collection calendars of the great majority of cities and towns.

Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.

If two players tie for majority, they will share both shareholder bonuses.

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

A small percentage of entertainers and athletes are able to make a decent living but a vast majority will spend their careers toiling from hard work, determination, rejection and frequent unemployment.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

" For example, James Madison argued for a constitutional republic with protections for individual liberty over a pure democracy, reasoning that, in a pure democracy, a " common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole ... and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party ...."

Phrased another way: young males ( who make up the vast majority of combatants in civil wars ) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education and / or have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper in the future.

The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory is appointed by the Administrator, who in normal circumstances will appoint the head of whatever party holds the majority of seats in the legislature of the territory ( in the Northern Territory, the Legislative Assembly ).

The majority of Christadelphians believe that the judgment will include anyone who had sufficient knowledge of the gospel message, and is not limited to baptized believers.

Particularly in Europe, the vast majority of clubs do not offer caddies, and amateur players will commonly carry their own bags.

Should there be no clear majority, the President can appoint a " government former " that will then have the task to win the confidence of the National Assembly.

In any event, a multivitamin taken once a day will suffice for the majority of the population.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

Gaetano Mosca in in his work The Ruling Class ( 1896 ) developed the theory that claims that in all societies, an " organized minority " will dominate and rule over the " disorganized majority ".

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 ".

When the Court renders its decision, it will generally do so in a single majority opinion and one or more dissenting opinions.

My most earnest hope is that the Labour Party will win a clear majority in the next General Election.

Given the distances between the stars, the great majority of stellar systems in colliding galaxies will be unaffected.

On July 26, 2012, the HBC revealed that it will close in 2013 the majority of the Zellers stores that were not acquired by Target Canada in 2011.

President Rene Preval on his campaign for his second terms vow on his Maillages Routiers to rebuild the majority of those roads that was disintegrate rapidly and build new one that will enable the country to move forward ; when he could not get fund from the world Bank went Literally and beg Foreign donor for assistant which was heavily criticize by many politicians in the media, but was greatly embrace by a population desperate to see road pave come in to their town.

Judaism understands that the vast majority of people, aside from those who are termed Tzadikim Gemurim ( Hebrew: צדיק, " the righteous "), will succumb to sin in their lives.

The simple majority also has the power to stipulate issues that will thereafter require a two-thirds majority.

In group 8 the vast majority of schools administer an aptitude test called the Cito Eindtoets Basisonderwijs ( literally, " Cito final test primary education ", often abbreviated to Citotoets ( Cito test ), developed by the Centraal instituut voor toetsontwikkeling ( Central Institute for test development )), which is designed to recommend the type of secondary education best suited for a pupil.

The President normally accepts this recommendation unless otherwise convinced that the Lok Sabha might recommend a new Prime Minister by a majority vote.

To help prevent or limit allergic reactions, the majority of hair color products recommend that the client conduct a patch test before using the product.

While consensus models of discourse often require that a true consensus be obtained, in consensus government policies advanced by the government are decided upon by majority vote ; the government must therefore recommend policies that please a majority of the entire legislature if it wants them to be approved.

On November 12, 2008, the Commission voted 13-7, with Civiletti voting with the majority, to recommend that the Maryland General Assembly abolish capital punishment in the state.

While some writers recommend reserving that for non-human cases, this does not reflect majority use.

Unlike the majority of electronics devices, many users do not recommend always updating to the manufacturer's latest firmware.

Research and questionnaires are formulated to fit the majority — heterosexuals.

“ The decisive act through which everything is won or lost is called choice a conception formulated by Kierkegaard and faithfully upheld by the majority of Existentialists.

The Reich government ( cabinet ) formulated decisions by majority vote — in the case of a tie, the Reich president's vote was decisive.

While the majority of the radical left voted for the Greater German variant, accepting the possibility, as formulated by Carl Vogt of a " holy war for western culture against the barbarism of the East ", i. e., against Poland and Hungary, whereas the liberal centre supported a more pragmatic stance.

In Pakistan – administered Kashmir, where majority of people are Pahari speaking, a team was formulated to trace the background of Pahari language and clarify whether it was dialect of Punjabi or any other language.

" The Tribunal held that economic policies affecting Africa — as formulated by such international institutions as the World Bank, World Trade Organization, and International Monetary Fund, and the cooperation of what SOPA sees as neocolonial governments like that of the African National Congress — have led to disastrous living conditions for the majority of Africans.

In his majority decision Mister Justice Peter Cory formulated a distinction between the subjective and objective aspects of the duty to bargain.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Harlan built upon the foundations of the majority opinion and formulated the “ reasonable expectation ” test for determining whether government activity constitutes a search.

It is important to recognize that this position was formulated in response to the primacy placed on ethnicity by the Anti-Manchu movement, which sought to assert the illegitimacy of the Qing dynasty based in part on the fact that its members were part of an ethnic minority out of touch with the Han majority, a position which Anarchists of all four major groups decried as racist and unbefitting a movement that claimed to be working for liberation.