Fighting was primarily between the majority Shia and the minority Sunni.

A fight between Fedor Emelianenko and Mark Coleman in the Japanese, ring-based Pride Fighting Championships | Pride organization. On March 27, 2007, the UFC and their Japan-based rival the Pride Fighting Championships announced an agreement in which the majority owners of the UFC, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, would purchase the Pride brand.

Later, in October 2011, Viacom purchased a majority stake in Bellator Fighting Championships.

This resulted in the majority of CAS operations being undertaken by aircraft from Belgium ( F-16 Fighting Falcon ), Denmark ( F-16 ), France ( Mirage 2000D ), the Netherlands ( F-16 ), Norway ( F-16 ), the United Kingdom ( Harrier GR7s, GR9s and Tornado GR4s ) and the United States ( A-10, F-16, AV-8B Harrier II, F-15E Strike Eagle, F / A-18 Hornet, F / A-18 Super Hornet, UH-1Y ).

A student referendum to vote on a new name and school colors for the football team was used as a forum to express this difference of opinion concerning budget priorities ; the vast majority of participants opted to call the team The Fighting Artichokes, and chose team colors of pink and white, although those were later changed to green and gold.

Fighting subsequently broke out between the radical leaders and the moderate majority of seamen and the ships gradually deserted Parker and returned to their anchorages, so that by 12 June only two ships still flew the red flag of the mutineers.

Titan is the fantasy world which serves as the setting for the majority of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy and Sorcery!

The fictional world of Titan is the setting for the majority of the Fighting Fantasy titles.

The Robot Fighting League ( RFL ) was created in 2002 when several builders decided that robot combat needed standardization of rules and judging criteria The majority of robot combat events in the U. S. have become RFL members and have adopted their ruleset, but some event organizers oppose the direction in which the RFL is taking the sport and remain independent.

( born March 21, 1959 ) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

For Final Fantasy XI from 2002, he was joined by Naoshi Mizuta, who composed the majority of the soundtrack, and Kumi Tanioka ; Uematsu was responsible for only eleven tracks.

Its various factions and races include the Imperium of Man, a decentralized yet totalitarian interstellar empire that has ruled the vast majority of humanity for millennia, the Orks ( similar to Warhammer Fantasy Orcs ), the Eldar ( similar to Elves in Warhammer Fantasy Battle ), and Daemons ( very similar in both universes, although the precise natures of their creation and existence vary slightly ), among others.

Mason had already quit the group by the time Mr. Fantasy was released, but rejoined for a few months of 1968, long enough to contribute to a slim majority of the songs on their second album, Traffic.

* Nobuo Uematsu ( born 1959 ) is a video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

Magic in Crystal Chronicles comes in the form of " magicite " ( a term first used in Final Fantasy VI and later used in Final Fantasy XII and other titles set in the world of Ivalice ( as part of the Ivalice Alliance )) and encompasses only a few basic offensive and defensive spells, with the majority of the spells in the game accessible by combining two or more basic spells.

He decided to make the project longer and more grand in scope when early word of the film generated great interest amongst Final Fantasy VII fans, the majority of whom wanted something feature length.

The majority of Final Fantasy games, including all of the main series games, have received a soundtrack album release.

A 12-CD set of those Debut recordings featuring Mingus, the majority of the label's output, was issued by Fantasy Records in 1992.

The majority of this material was subsequently reissued on CD as part of the owners ' Original Jazz Classics series and remains available today from current Fantasy catalogue owner Concord Records.

* Senior Principal / Partner: Typically an owner or majority shareholder of the firm ; may be the founder ; titles may include president, chief executive officer, or managing principal / partner.

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.

This was quickly remedied by First Byte Computers who developed an interface and software which allowed a " switched " joystick to be used with the majority of software titles.

After leaving TSR in 1985 over issues with its new majority owner, Gygax continued to create role-playing game titles independently, beginning with the multi-genre Dangerous Journeys in 1992.

The majority wore a distinctive national collar patch and preceded their SS rank titles with the prefix Waffen instead of SS.

Such successful " crossover " titles remain the exception rather than the rule, however: the archetypal shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume has a readership 95 % female, with a majority aged 17 or under.

While the act has several titles and provisions, the majority of criticism stems from the act's tightening of habeas corpus laws.

" The majority of the titles followed a fantasy theme, although science fiction, post-apocalyptic, super-hero, and modern horror also featured.

Although a few towns with New York land titles, notably Brattleboro on the Connecticut River, supported the change, the vast majority of the settlers in the sparsely populated frontier region rejected the authority of New York.

After the Senate, where there was a liberal majority, rejected Kuypers ' law on higher education, which sought to bring equal titles for alumni of the Free University, which Kuyper himself founded, Kuyper called for new elections for the Senate.

Waltman has won a dozen total championships between WWE, WCW, and TNA, with the majority of them being cruiserweight and tag team titles.

Holyfield regained the title in a rematch one year later, beating Bowe by majority decision for the WBA and IBF titles.

Holyfield later lost the titles to Michael Moorer on April 22, 1994 by majority decision.

The majority of the titles in the series consist of one or more multi-page stories together with a number of one-page strips.

Via this manipulation, Kiyomori was able to climb the ranks of government, though the majority of his promotions as well as the success of his family in gaining ranks and titles at court was due to the patronage of the retired sovereign Go-Shirakawa.

As of 2010, the majority of titles Image publishes in a given month are non-studio productions.

The vast majority of titles were only available in CLV ( a few titles were released partly CLV, partly CAV.

Its German division wasn't as successful as the UK division since the majority of titles licensed by ADV US were already licensed by other anime distributors.

The four rule breakers immediately used their strength in numbers to decimate the NWA's top fan favorites while controlling the majority of the championship titles.

In Anglo-Catholic and some Episcopal Churches however, the vast majority of roles associated with an altar server are the same as those in the Catholic Church, and the same titles for each individual role are retained from Catholic tradition – mostly restored during the Oxford Movement in the 19th century.

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.

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.