" The Tory dominated Parliament concluded by a substantial majority that, ' the taking of several sums of money annually by the Duke of Marlborough from the contractor for foraging the bread and wagons ... was unwarrantable and illegal ', and that the 2. 5 % deducted from the pay of foreign troops ' is public money and ought to be accounted for.

Herbivorous to slightly omnivorous galliforms, comprising the majority of the group, are typically stoutly built and have short thick bills primarily adapted for foraging on the ground for rootlets or the consumption of other plant material such as heather shoots.

Flight is a mixture of a slow, deep flapping and short glides: unlike their European namesakes, White-winged Choughs are not particularly strong or agile fliers and spend the great majority of their time on the ground, foraging methodically through leaf litter for worms, insects, grain, and snails in a loose group, walking with a distinctive swagger, and calling softly to one another every few seconds.

When foraging above ground the majority of time is spent gleaning foliage.

In Arizona, the majority of foraging and roosting occurred in ponderosa pine-Gambel oak forests.

Baboons are not very good climbers, so they spend the majority of their time foraging on the ground.

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.

For the vast majority of autosomal genes, expression occurs from both alleles simultaneously.

* The majority of the Portland Rose Festival occurs.

* 2010 – The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316, 000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.

For example, when a vote on behalf of a tariff is traded by a congressman for a vote from another congressman on behalf of an agricultural subsidy to ensure that both acts will gain a majority and pass through the legislature, logrolling occurs ( Shughart 2008 ).

The cyclical majority problem occurs when voters are faced with multiple voting options but cannot choose the option they prefer most, since it ’ s not available.

This is where the majority of input to the neuron occurs via the dendritic spine.

However, more recent studies of the age of human neurons suggest that this process occurs only for a minority of cells, and the overwhelming majority of neurons comprising the neocortex were formed before birth and persist without replacement.

Tuber bulking occurs during the fourth phase, when the plant begins investing the majority of its resources in its newly formed tubers.

However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes ( usually an absolute majority or 40-45 % with a winning margin of 5-15 %), then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting occurs.

The vast majority of passenger travel occurs by automobile for shorter distances, and airplane or railroad for some people, for longer distances.

This occurs as a result of a kind of tie known as a majority rule cycle, described by Condorcet's paradox.

Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency occurs in the majority ( 85 % to 90 %) of patients with CF.

Although the usage rabbim " many " ( as 1 Kings 18: 25, ה ָ ר ַ ב ִּ ים ) " the majority, the multitude " occurs for the assembly of the community in the Dead Sea scrolls there is no evidence to support an association with the later title " Rabbi.

This so-called PWS / AS region may be lost by one of several genetic mechanisms which, in the majority of instances occurs through chance mutation.

A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and perceived by the majority of society as being outside of normal development or cultural expectations.

Reverse redlining occurs when a lender or insurer targets minority consumers, not to deny them loans or insurance, but rather to charge them more than could be charged to a comparable majority consumer whose business is more sought after.

Reverse redlining occurs when a lender or insurer particularly targets minority consumers, not to deny them loans or insurance, but rather to charge them more than would be charged to a similarly situated majority consumer, specifically marketing the most expensive and onerous loan products.

Of the three genera, Merops, which has the majority of the species in the family, occurs across the entirely of the family's distribution.

This is a problem that is " outside the context " as it is generally not considered until it occurs, and the capacity to actually conceive of or consider the OCP in the first place may not be possible or very limited ( i. e., the majority of the group's population may not have the knowledge or ability to realize that the OCP can arise, or assume it is extremely unlikely ).

The earliest microscopic signs of BPH usually begin between the age of 30 and 50 years old in the PUG, which are posterior to the proximal urethra .< sup >: 694 </ sup > However, the majority of growth eventually occurs in the TZ .< sup >: 694 </ sup > In addition to these two classic areas, the peripheral zone ( PZ ) of the prostate is also involved to a lesser extent .< sup >: 695 </ sup > Since prostatic cancer also occurs in the PZ, BPH nodules in the PZ are often biopsied to rule out cancer .< sup >: 695 </ sup >

An example of this occurs in Epping Forest in London / Essex, UK, the majority of which was pollarded until the late 19th century.

Annual precipitation is, the vast majority of which occurs during summer, due to monsoonal influences.

Another example of frequency dependent capacitance occurs with MOS capacitors, where the slow generation of minority carriers means that at high frequencies the capacitance measures only the majority carrier response, while at low frequencies both types of carrier respond.

To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.

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.

A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

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.

In eight states whose fiscal years close on June 30, a majority of their cities close their fiscal year on December 31::

Quite often, honeybees form a majority on the willow catkins.

If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.

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.

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

Armed with the Nixon opinion, the Senate liberals rounded up their slim majority and prepared to choke off debate on the filibuster battle this week.

This first attempt at an amendment failed to pass, falling short of the required two-thirds majority on June 15, 1864, in the House of Representatives.

Swift also recognizes the implications of such a fact in making mercantilist philosophy a paradox: the wealth of a country is based on the poverty of the majority of its citizens.

Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.

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 Arminian view is that election is individual and based on God's foreknowledge of faith, but a second perspective deserves mention.

The extreme of Calvinism is hyper-Calvinism, which insists that signs of election must be sought before evangelization of the unregenerate takes place and that the eternally damned have no obligation to repent and believe, and on the extreme of Arminianism is Pelagianism, which rejects the doctrine of original sin on grounds of moral accountability ; but the overwhelming majority of Protestant, evangelical pastors and theologians hold to one of these two systems or somewhere in between.

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.

The majority of details on Alcuin's life come from his letters and poems.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

On attaining his majority at the age of 21 in 1262, Alexander declared his intention of resuming the projects on the Western Isles which the death of his father thirteen years before had cut short.

The majority of professional astrologers rely on performing astrology-based personality tests and making relevant predictions about the remunerators future.