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 ; ;

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.

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.

They do not happen often in Germany because of the dual board structure, nor in Japan because companies have interlocking sets of ownerships known as keiretsu, nor in the People's Republic of China because the state majority owns most publicly-listed companies.

The studios, in parallel, were still not entirely convinced of the talkies ' universal appeal — through mid-1930, the majority of Hollywood movies were produced in dual versions, silent as well as talking.

A totalitarian democratic state is said to maximize its control over the lives of its citizens, using the dual rationale of general will ( i. e., " public good ") and majority rule.

F dual core AM2 Opterons feature 2 × 1 MB L2 cache, unlike the majority of their Athlon 64 X2 cousins which feature 2x512 KB L2 cache.

To remedy this problem, the vast majority of Nakamichi dual-capstan decks contain a " cage " around the record / playback heads that lifts the pressure pad out of the way so that the deck itself — specifically, the dual capstan mechanism — is able to maintain much more consistent tape tension and tape / head contact during playback.

The majority of the A36 is built to single carriageway standard, but parts of it have been upgraded to dual carriageway standard.

The majority of the road is of single-carriageway standard, although a few short dual carriageway sections exist, including a one mile section past Gretna, a section past Collin ( just east of Dumfries ) and also a two mile section just west of Dumfries, which opened in 1999 to replace the old wooded route.

The majority of dual carriageway roads now have barriers.

Opposition MPs, Adeang included, constituted a majority of legislators present, and passed a ruling outlawing dual citizenship for Members of Parliament.

Spring is the primary season for college rowing, and the majority of schedule is composed of dual races.

* A BOC holds citizenship of a country ( e. g. Kenya ) that permits dual citizenship only for minors, and that requires such minors to renounce all other nationalities at the age of majority.

Against the majority of Liberal Party members he strongly supported NATO and nuclear weapons, describing a separate European non-nuclear defence as ' akin to a behaving like a virgin in a brothel ', although he supported demands for ' dual key control ' of United States cruise missiles based in Britain.

This unusual corporate ownership structure resulted in dual or hyphened names on many of their stores ( and resulted in over 300 separate legal entities, each store having differing ownership interests ), which in the 1990's threatened the company's very existence, as a combination of Belk family squabbles ( one side wanting to keep the structure, while the other side saw it to be a hindrance in the modern retail era ) and a wave of retail industry consolidation resulted in several partnerships ( where Belk did not hold controlling interest ) selling their interests to competitors ( for example, the heirs of John G. Parks, majority owners of the Parks-Belk chain, sold their interests to Proffitt's ; the Belks would quickly follow suit, though Belk would later purchase the Proffitt's chain ).

The majority of the village is separated from suburban Exeter by the A30 dual carriageway.

* The majority of the town is bypassed by the A217 dual carriageway to the west.

The vast majority of the regional road network is made up of single carriageway roads although some roads are dual carriageway ( see: High capacity regional roads ).

In the case of dual citizenship, the child was required to select a single citizenship within one year after reaching the age of majority ( article 5 ).

In the theta mode, the EEG is dominated by large regular waves with a frequency range of 6 – 9 Hz, and the main groups of hippocampal neurons ( pyramidal cells and granule cells ) show sparse population activity, which means that in any short time interval, the great majority of cells are silent, while the small remaining fraction fire at relatively high rates, up to 50 spikes in one second for the most active of them.

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.

The vast majority of digital devices do not require a clock at a fixed, constant frequency.

According to this theory, after a large earthquake, the majority of the stress is released and the frequency of microfracturing is exponentially lower.

While there are broadband designs for antennas, the vast majority of antennas are based on the half-wave dipole which has a particular resonant frequency.

The majority of the unlawful users continued in their insistence on a 27 MHz system, although for a locally available Citizen's Band system, 27 MHz is actually a very poor choice of frequency.

The majority of manufacturers of electricity meters have radio frequency devices in the frequency band of 433 / 868 MHz for large scale deployment in European countries.

In Europe, which generally has a narrower UHF allocation than the USA, the majority of amateur television operation is currently frequency modulated on and above.

And because of their majority carrier conduction mechanism, Schottky diodes can achieve greater switching speeds than p-n junction diodes, making them appropriate to rectify high frequency signals.

Even though technology was soon made obsolete by video equipment, the majority of small-gauge films used magnetic sound rather than optical sound for a higher frequency range.

Up until the mid 1990s, the majority of the local radio stations identified on-air as ( frequency ) ( callsign ).

The power MOSFET has the advantages of the majority carrier devices, so it can achieve very high operating frequency, but can't be used with high voltages.

In children, the majority of cases of hemiplegia have no identifiable cause and occur with a frequency of about one in every thousand births.

Because of the geographic location of Star FM's Transmitter and the positioning of the frequency between 2 other very strong signals ( ABC Classic FM ( 106. 1 ) and Triple J ( 107. 7 )) without co-locating transmitters meant that Star FM's signal didn't reach very far in to Brisbane City ( where the majority of Ipswich residents commute to on a daily basis ).

Until 2003, Phantom operated as a pirate station, staying on air the majority of the time, apart from outages caused by frequency collisions with newly licenced stations, fear of raids by Comreg, and once, the theft of their transmission equipment from Three Rock Mountain.

* crime " major felony, major indictable offence ": severest crime punishable by a prison sentence greater of 10 or more years ; the vast majority of crimes committed are, in decreasing frequency, rape and homicide.

Research showing differences in fire size and frequency between southern California and Baja has been used to imply that the larger fires north of the border are the result of fire suppression, but this opinion has been challenged by numerous investigators and is no longer supported by the majority of fire ecologists.

Experimentally, this equation permits a large combination of frequency and magnetic field values, but the great majority of EPR measurements are made with microwaves in the 9000 – 10000 MHz ( 9 – 10 GHz ) region, with fields corresponding to about 3500 G ( 0. 35 T ).

Frequencies that are affected by ionospheric propagation range from approximately 500 kHz to 50 MHz but the majority of such NLOS links operate in the ' short wave ' or high frequency ( HF ) frequency bands between 3 MHz and 30 MHz.

Despite their frequency, the graves are far too few to house the many inhabitants the city once had, which indicates that the city normally used alternative means of interment such as cremation for the majority of residents and reserved burial for important members of society.