In the majority of countries, however, the rates range from $3.00 to $3.50 a day for the smaller sedans and graduate up to $7.00 and $8.00 a day for the larger, luxury European models, with the rate per kilometer driven starting at $.03 and going up as high as $.12.

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 cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

Youth Cheer — high school ages and younger — make up the vast majority of cheerleaders and cheer teams.

LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.

Although Canada is internationally a fairly strong country in diving, the vast majority of Canadian high schools and universities do not have diving teams, and many Canadian divers accept athletic scholarships from American colleges.

The subsequent elections Løgting were won by an anti-independence majority and instead a high degree of self-governance was attained in 1948 with the passing of the Act of Faroese Home Rule.

Average rainfall is high compared to the majority of the British Isles, due to its location to the western side of Great Britain and sufficient distance from Ireland for moisture to be accumulated by the prevailing south-westerly winds.

The savings are so high because oxygen accounts for the majority of the mass in most rocket propellant combinations.

In times of flood and high irrigation flows the majority of the water, in addition to flooding the Red Gum forests, actually travels through the Edward River channel.

Although managing the parliament was among the necessary skills of holding high office, they did not depend on a parliamentary majority for their power.

Citing surveys showing that the large majority of people in high leadership positions are members of the wealthy upper class, critics of pluralism claim that the state serves the interests of the upper class rather than equitably serving the interests of all social groups.

" The majority opinion of the board stated that the inclusion of additional material on the DVD " facilitates wider consideration of the context of the film which results in the impact being no more than high.

The majority of protein structures known to date have been solved with the experimental technique of X-ray crystallography, which typically provides data of high resolution but provides no time-dependent information on the protein's conformational flexibility.

Although white dwarfs are known with estimated masses as low as 0. 17 and as high as 1. 33 solar masses, the mass distribution is strongly peaked at 0. 6 solar mass, and the majority lie between 0. 5 to 0. 7 solar mass.

Unofficial estimates of the ethnic Nepalese population ran as high as 30 to 40 percent, constituting a majority in the south.

The majority of electrons are thus stuck orbiting in the region of high radial magnetic field near the thruster exit plane, trapped in E × B ( axial electric field and radial magnetic field ).

Agnew soon found his role as the voice of the so-called " silent majority ", and by late 1969 he was ranking high on national " Most Admired Men " polls.

Most high school marching band competitions occur in the fall when the majority of schools begin classes.

The majority of high schools in Canada schedule classes running from late August or early September to mid or late June with a summer break during July and August.

The school was the subject of some controversy in the 1990s, but an Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated: " It is held in very high regard by the vast majority of students and their parents, and rightly so.

The Royal Navy went on to note that based on its interrogations of Kriegsmarine POWs that Raeder's indoctrination policy had borne fruit in that the morale of the Kriegsmarine was extremely high, with the majority of officers and sailors very proud to fight for Führer and fatherland.

As an example, countries with a very small, very rich upper class and a very large, very poor lower class may have a high mean level of income, even though the majority of people have a low " standard of living ".

In each case, the state capitalist country has a low income discrepancy ( and therefore would score high in that regard ), but lower per capita incomes than a large majority of their neighboring counterpart.

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.

This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

In large cities, a majority of working people and students eat their lunch at a corporate or school cafeteria, which normally serve complete meals as described above ; it is therefore not usual for students to bring their own lunch food.

Students of Imam Malik established the Maliki school of which a majority now can be found in North Africa and some Persian gulf states.

The three reasons that are selected by the majority of homeschooling parents in the United States are concern about the school environment, to provide religious or moral instruction, and dissatisfaction with academic instruction at public and private schools.

The majority of states ( and the District of Columbia ) have charter school laws.

Cyber charter schools deliver the majority of their instruction over the internet instead of in a school building.

The Court ruled 5-4 to let the tax credit program stand In April 2011, a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found that a majority of American voters ( 60 %) felt that the tax credits support school choice for parents whereas 26 % felt as it the tax credits support religion.

The majority of states ( and the District of Columbia ) have charter school laws.

Cyber charter schools deliver the majority of their instruction over the internet instead of in a school building.

After the basic school the majority of pupils between ages 15 – 19 usually choose to go through the 3-year " Gymnasium ", which is University-preparatory.

The majority of them are public and government-funded, although there are some diocesan upper secondary schools and a Waldorf upper secondary school, which are private and require tuition to be paid.

Twin Ridges Elementary in Nevada County, California held the first Green Party majority school board in the United States.

In Belgium, the school question was then sharply debated between the Catholic majority and the Liberal minority.

The majority of public and private schools in Denmark do not have school uniforms.

In the majority of elementary schools, students are not required to wear a uniform to school.

The majority of elementary schools except some private elementary schools do not have uniforms ; however, the uniform is strictly monitored from the start of middle school and up.

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.