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.

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 Salieri's modest number of instrumental works also date from this time.

The vast majority of laws are now subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, which works on the principle that consent from both the Council and Parliament are required before a law may be adopted.

Other than the Bible, the majority of the LDS canon constitutes revelation dictated by Joseph Smith and includes commentary and exegesis about the Bible, texts described as lost parts of the Bible, and other works believed to be written by ancient prophets.

The majority of works in the 1960s were also about the Jewish diaspora, but in 2002 only two out of 20 books sampled ( out of a total of 253 ) were about the Jewish case, with a total of eight different diasporas covered.

The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand ; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Wolfgang Völz, and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players ; and softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme ( sex education films ) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report ( Schoolgirl Report ) ( 1970 ) and its successors.

All works published before 1923 are public domain in the U. S. However, there is some disagreement over who exactly owns or owned the copyrights and whether the copyrights apply to the majority of Lovecraft's works published post-1923.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

Those who consider performance as an integral part of faith such as, consider anyone who does a grave sin to be out of faith, while the majority of Sunnis who view works as merely the perfecting the faith, hold that a believing sinner will be punished with a temporary stay in hell.

It's the period that contains the majority of his most highly respected works, and continued through to 1965 with Tokyo Olympiad.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property.

* Christoph Christian Sturm ( 1740 – 1786 ), German preacher and author, who wrote the majority of his devotional works here

The convergence of documentary evidence of the type used by academics for authorial attribution — title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians, and official records — sufficiently establishes Shakespeare's authorship for the overwhelming majority of Shakespeare scholars and literary historians, and no evidence links Oxford to Shakespeare's works.

Polybius wrote several works, the majority of which are lost.

The majority of Proclus ' works are commentaries on dialogues of Plato ( Alcibiades, Cratylus, Parmenides, Republic, Timaeus ).

Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works ( other than pottery ) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely.

The massive mountain ranges are cut by hundreds of canyons and gorges at the bottom of which run streams that flow into larger river valleys where the majority of the country's population lives and works.

A party really cannot prevent a person who disagrees with the majority of positions of the party or actively works against the party's aims from claiming party membership, so long as the voters who choose to vote in the primary elections elect that person.

" This explanation was widely accepted when it was championed by Bruckner scholar Robert Haas, who was the chief editor of the first critical editions of Bruckner's works published by the International Bruckner Society ; it continues to be found in the majority of program notes and biographical sketches concerning Bruckner.

Unlike in some Westminster system parliaments, in which the office of speaker is considered to be non-partisan, in the United States the speakership of the House is a leadership position in the majority party and the office-holder actively works to set that party's legislative agenda ; the office is therefore endowed with considerable political power.

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 ; ;

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.

He said " A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

It held that slavery in the territories was to be allowed as a property right to any settler, even where the majority opposed slavery.

The Prime Minister and Cabinet is formed by the political party which gains a simple majority in the general elections held in Barbados.

Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.

At the Fifth Congress held in London in May 1907, the Bolsheviks were in the majority, but the two factions continued functioning mostly independently of each other.

The only faction to ever gain a majority of Knesset seats was Alignment, an alliance of the Labor Party and Mapam that held an absolute majority for a brief period from 1968-1969.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

The wealth held by the top 10 % rose considerably over the two decades, but there was little improvement in the wealth levels in rural areas, which comprised the great majority of the population.

No presidential candidate obtained a majority, so a run-off election between the top two candidates-Quito Mayor Jamil Mahuad of the DP and Social Christian Álvaro Noboa Pontón-was held on July 12, 1998.

The remaining 95 % are Christians, so divided: 78 % of the Eritrean Orthodox faith, 12 % Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic ( whose mass is held in Ge ' ez as opposed to Latin ), and 5 % belonging to various Protestant and other Christian denominations, the majority of which belong to the ( Lutheran ) Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

The group held 38 of the 78 seats, two short of an absolute majority.

A referendum on full independence was held in 1946, which produced a majority in favour.

Nevertheless, none of these has held a single-party majority, with the notable exception of 1916 elections where Social Democrats gained 103 of the 200 seats.

He created the Heineken Holding that owned 50. 005 % of Heineken International ; he personally held a majority stake in Heineken Holding.

In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority ; the leaders subsequently agreed against a two-party system and ran with a single list of candidates.

In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority.

In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority.

Fresh parliamentary elections were held on March 28, 2004, where the United National Movement's parliamentary faction, the National Movement-Democrats ( NMD ), secured the vast majority of the seats ( with ca.

Following the Saarland state election of August 2009, The Greens held the balance of power after a close election where no two-party coalitions could create a stable majority government.

General elections were held in 1931 to replace the government, with Republican and anticlerical candidates winning the majority of votes.

The government called early elections in September 2007 ( normally, elections would have been held in March 2008 ), and New Democracy again was the majority party in the Parliament.

A referendum must then be held within three months, which requires a simple majority in favour to pass.