Twenty – eight Scottish ecclesiasts attended at intervals from 1434 to 1437 but the majority of the higher ranking churchmen sent proxy attendees although Bishops John Cameron of Glasgow and John de Crannoch of Brechin attended in person as did Abbot Patrick Wotherspoon of Holyrood.

The majority disagreed and stated that the protester's speech was not personal but public, and that local laws which can shield funeral attendees from protesters are adequate for protecting those in times of emotional distress.

At the National Women's Rights Convention, October 23 – 24, 1850, 900 people showed up, men forming the majority, with several newspapers reporting over a thousand attendees by the afternoon of the first day.

The initiation may be received as a blessing for the majority of those attending, although many attendees do take the commitments and subsequently engage in the practice.

Hackney Green Party put a formal proposal to the Ecology Party Autumn Conference in Dover that year to change to the Green Party, which was supported by the majority of attendees, including John Abineri, formerly an actor in the BBC series Survivors who supported adding the colour ' Green ' to the name to fall in line with other environmental parties in Europe.

The majority of attendees camp for the duration of the festival.

The majority of ConFest attendees come from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and from other cities and townships around Australia.

Graduate students were, throughout the meeting, the majority of attendees, and had an interest in the above amendment, shown by their higher than usual turnout ( Graduate students represent about 15 % of all students at SFU ).

Although there are attendees from all over the world, the majority of delegates are from Western Europe and North America.

The majority of attendees came from the Northeast of the United States, but a large minority came from around North America, and there were delegations from over a dozen other countries ( with simultaneous translation available in as many languages ).

On July 25, 2007 Necro dropped off this tour due to not being well received by a majority of the attendees.

Simply put, the communicator must consider the audience before making the presentation itself and in cases where it is not possible the presenter can at least try to simplify his / her vocabulary so that the majority can understand

The majority of scholars tend to understand Plotinus ' opponents as being a Gnostic sect — certainly ( specifically Sethian ), several such groups were present in Alexandria and elsewhere about the Mediterranean during Plotinus ' lifetime.

Both the dialogues and the evolving paintings were ostensive penitential lessons that even illiterate people ( who were the overwhelming majority ) could understand.

He saw himself as doing Allah's bidding, yet he was inquisitive enough to explore new ideas about religion, intelligent enough to understand that Hindus were in the majority and grand enough in his pretensions not to need to obey every line of the Qur ' an.

The majority of pagans are not committed to a single defined tradition, but understand paganism as encompassing a wide range of non-institutionalized spirituality, as promoted by the Church of All Worlds, the Feri Tradition and other movements.

The majority of PRC Chinese do not understand the overseas Chinese experience of being a minority, as ethnic Han Chinese comprise approximately 91 % of the population.

Chinese writers who spoke other dialects had to use the grammar and vocabulary of Jianghuai and Beijing Mandarin in order for the majority of Chinese to understand their writing ; by contrast, Chinese who did not speak southern dialects would not be able to understand a Southern dialect's writing.

As introverted thinkers, INTPs spend the majority of their time and energy ordering the interior, logical world of principles and generalizations in an effort to understand.

It is a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority, although – since a large part of the Finnish-speaking majority understand Swedish and most of the programmes are subtitled in Finnish – a large proportion of its viewers are in fact Finnish-speakers.

Tucker explained, " Even though I loved the song and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish.

A majority said that the wealthy Rockefeller, despite his interest in “ good government ,” could not understand the problems of common people on restricted incomes or those in the middle class with limited investment opportunities.

The majority of workers are literate and numerate but frequently, cannot use these skills effectively because they are rusty when called upon to use mathematical principles they have not used for 20 years, because they must use the skills in a context different from the one in which they originally learned them, or because they do not understand how to expand or apply the skill.

It is also worth noting that, as the great majority of the population in Taipa and Macau is Chinese, most people refer to this island by its Cantonese name, " Tamzai ", and most taxi drivers and bus drivers will not understand if asked how to go to " Taipa.

In the case of Jesus Christ according to the gospels and tradition, the majority of Christians understand him to be God the Son, become man ( John 1: 14 ).

Spelling pronunciations can arise in any language when the majority of the populus only obtain enough education to learn how to read and write, but not enough to understand when spelling is not indicating modern pronunciation ; in other words, many people do not clearly understand the relationship between spelling and pronunciation.

The majority of Bible Society's work is overseas, making the Bible available in a language people can understand and at a price they can afford.

In contrast to the vast majority of antiquarians of the time, Cunnington realised that to fully understand the barrows which fascinated him they should be excavated and recorded carefully and methodically.

The meeting was, we understand, not quite unanimous, but a majority were in favour of ignoring drawn games altogether and settling the championship by wins and losses.

The vast majority of Akha speakers can understand the Jeu G ’ oe (“ Jer Way ”) dialect spoken in southern China, Thailand and Myanmar.

A majority of them are built at specialty shops that know and understand the rules of the racing classes.

To them, the Nationalists had led the way towards Home Rule from the 1880s without trying hard enough to understand Unionist apprehensions, and were instead relying on their mathematical majority of electors.

French is the most widely studied foreign language in the country, and a majority of Algerians can understand it and speak it, though it is usually not spoken in daily life.

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.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

Whether this was an attempt to foster increasing unity by dissolving legal boundaries between communities, or to effect domination of the Turkish Cypriots by the majority Greek Cypriots, remains controversial.

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.

The Conservative majority proved too small for effective control over his backbenchers, particularly after the United Kingdom's forced exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) on " Black Wednesday ", 16 September 1992, just five months into the new parliament, when billions of pounds were spent in a futile attempt to defend the currency's value.

Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior ; there are evolutionary theories which hold that love is part of the process of natural selection ; there are spiritual theories which may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God ; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

Mauritanian lawmaker, Mohammed Al Mukhtar, announced that " many of the country's people were supporting the takeover attempt and the government is " an authoritarian regime " and that the president had " marginalized the majority in parliament.

Mauritanian lawmaker, Mohammed Al Mukhtar, announced that " many of the country's people were supporting the takeover attempt and the government is " an authoritarian regime " and that the president had " marginalized the majority in parliament.

In some cases, accusers may have been motivated by a desire to take the property of the accused, though this is a difficult assertion to prove in the majority of areas where the inquisition was active, as the inquisition had several layers of oversight built into its framework in a specific attempt to limit prosecutorial misconduct.

Should the prime minister's party achieve a minority while an opposition party wins a plurality — i. e., more seats than any other party but less than a majority — the prime minister can attempt to maintain the confidence of the House by forming a coalition with other minority parties.

In an attempt to reduce the possibility of groups of nation-states dominating the negotiations, the conference used a consensus process rather than majority vote.

Grey made a second attempt to raise the subject in 1797, but the House again rebuffed him by a majority of more than 150.

Indeed, it is claimed that in such decorative English " there is often no attempt to try to get it right, nor do the vast majority of the Japanese population ever attempt to read the English design element in question.

Like many other technological innovations, each of several companies made an attempt to produce a television recording standard that the majority of the world would embrace.

Following a failed attempt to establish a coalition with the Liberals, Heath conceded power to a minority Labour government under Harold Wilson, which won a small majority in a second election in October that year.

This led to a semi-legal rebellion against the king ( rokosz ), known as rokosz of Zebrzydowski ( 1606 – 1608 ), which was a response to Sigismund's attempt to introduce majority voting in place of unanimity in the Sejm.

The majority of traditions relating to prostration at the end of Sūra al-Najm solve this by either removing all mention of the mushrikūn, or else transforming the attempt of an old Meccan to participate ( who, instead of bowing to the ground instead puts dirt to his forehead proclaiming " This is sufficient for me ") into an act of mockery.

After an earlier attempt to acquire Texas by treaty had failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States annexed the Republic of Texas by a joint resolution of Congress that required simply a majority vote in each house of Congress.

The following year, the government changed the electoral laws, resorting to gerrymandering, and altering the franchise to allow some rich men of trade and industry to vote, in an attempt to prevent the ultras of winning a majority in future elections.

In view of the fact that in May 1992 the Central Referendum Commission had validated 384, 000 of the 442, 000 signatures collected ( exceeding the 350, 000 signatures required by law ), the BPF opposition accused the Supreme Soviet's conservative majority of an open violation of the republic's constitution and of an attempt to retain power by illegal means.

Free Blacks, who were the majority of Black Bermudians in the 17th century, were threatened with enslavement as an attempt to encourage their emigration, and slave owners were encouraged to export enslaved Blacks ( with all slaves seen, like horses on an archipelago with dense forests and few roads, as a status symbol ) whenever a war loomed, as they were portrayed as unnecessary bellies to feed during times of shortage ( even before abandoning agriculture for maritime activities in 1684, Bermuda had become reliant on food imports ).

Although an overall majority had opted for Germany, the area was finally divided in an attempt to satisfy both parties.