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

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

The Kosovo declaration of independence is supported by the majority of EU member states, but disputed by Serbia, which continues to regard Kosovo as its own territory, and most other countries.

Official sources only states “ the majority of the population is mulatto ” (“… maioritariamente mestiça …”) without stating any number.

* favoured a weak central government presiding over two sovereign states in voluntary association, a legacy of earlier fears of domination by the majority Greek Cypriots ; and

In most cases, the Council votes on issues by qualified majority voting, meaning that there must be a minimum of 255 votes out of 345 ( 73. 9 %) and a majority of member states ( sometimes a two – third majority ).

Some states permit plaintiff's counsel to settle for all the mass action plaintiffs according to a majority vote, for example.

The Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá states that Guardians should be lineal descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh, that each Guardian must select his successor during his lifetime, and that the nine Hands of the Cause of God permanently stationed in the holy land must approve the appointment by majority vote.

They began to remove internal customs barriers during the Industrial Revolution, though, and the German Customs Union Zollverein was formed among the majority of the states in 1834.

Some states and store chains have implemented restrictions, such as requiring signatures for DXM sale, limiting quantities allowable for purchase, and requiring that purchasers be over the age of majority in their state.

It only applies to languages traditionally used by the nationals of the State Parties ( thus excluding languages used by recent immigrants from other states, see immigrant languages ), which significantly differ from the majority or official language ( thus excluding what the state party wishes to consider as mere local dialects of the official or majority language ) and that either have a territorial basis ( and are therefore traditionally spoken by populations of regions or areas within the State ) or are used by linguistic minorities within the State as a whole ( thereby including such languages as Yiddish and Romani, which are used over a wide geographic area ).

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

This would require approval of a two-thirds majority of the member states and approval of all five Security Council veto powers.

In the majority of states, whether republics or monarchies, executive authority is vested, at least notionally, in the head of state.

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

In a majority of states, the burden is placed on the defendant, who must prove insanity by a preponderance of the evidence.

He won all the same states that his father had won in the election of 1800: the New England states, New Jersey, and Delaware, as well as parts of New York and a majority of Maryland.

Richard Bauckham states that although a few scholars have questioned the James passage, " the vast majority have considered it to be authentic ", and that among the several accounts of the death of James the account in Josephus is generally considered to be historically the most reliable.

Paul Maier states that the first case is generally seen as hopeless, given that a Jew, Josephus would not have claimed Jesus as the Messiah, and that the second option is hardly tenable given the presence of the reference in all Greek manuscripts ; thus a large majority of modern scholars accept the third alternative, i. e. partial authenticity.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

Although one meets with occasional extremists like Zachrisson or, very recently, Arthur Wade-Evans the majority of scholars have taken a middle position between the extremes of scepticism and gullibility.

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.

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.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

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.

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 accepts classical theism – the belief that God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of His divine nature.

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.

Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training.

The majority of aircraft power their avionics using 14-or 28 ‑ volt DC electrical systems ; however, larger, more sophisticated aircraft ( such as airliners or military combat aircraft ) have AC systems operating at 400 Hz, 115 volts AC.

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

The majority of ammeters are either connected in series with the circuit carrying the current to be measured ( for small fractional amperes ), or have their shunt resistors connected similarly in series.

While the coast of BC and certain valleys in the south-central part of the province have mild weather, the majority of BC's land mass experiences a cold winter temperate to subarctic climate similar to the rest of Canada.

Although Hutus encompass the majority of the population, historically Tutsis have been politically and economically dominant.

The great majority of today's bicycles have a frame with upright seating which looks much like the first chain-driven bike.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

The majority of those who accepted the reform message have been disfellowshipped due to the Adventist church rejecting it.

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.

The vast majority of companies covered by the Act have hired internal auditors to ensure that the company adheres to required standards of internal control.