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.

Wesley thoroughly agreed with the vast majority of what Arminius himself taught, maintaining strong doctrines of original sin, total depravity, conditional election, prevenient grace, unlimited atonement, and possibly apostasy.

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.

Important early anthroposophists who were Jewish included Karl König, the founder of the Camphill movement, and a majority of the executive board of the original Anthroposophical Society.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.

Today, all diverse local languages under the Standard German umbrella are collectively referred to as " German dialects ", ( including Slavic, Frisian, Dutch, and Danish ones ) the vast majority of German speakers still believe, they were variations of " original " or even Standard German.

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

Krupp received original contracts in the United States and enjoyed a period of technological superiority while also contributing the majority of rail to the new continental rail road system.

In the late 20th century, a majority of motels in the United States came under the ownership of people of Indian descent, particularly Gujaratis as the original " mum and pop " owners retired from the motel industry and sold their properties.

Black, along with old gold and white, has always been one of the team colors, but it wasn't the first choice of original majority owner John W. Mecom, Jr. His preference was for Mecom Blue, a medium shade which was used by all of his other investments.

The majority of commercial parasail operators utilized the 16-gore canopy design that was derived from Gaskin's original invention.

The other major sticking point, which is reportedly causing concern at government level, is that the majority of people going to Potsdamer Platz are visitors to the city, implying that the original vision of the development as a linking element attracting Berliners themselves, and Berliners from both sides of the former divide, has not really materialised.

He also says that " Singulary little change followed the 1928 decree ; a fair number of slaves returned to their original homes, but the great majority remained in the villages in which their former masters had placed them or their parents.

Antonin Artaud, an early Surrealist, rejected the majority of Western theatre as a perversion of its original intent, which he felt should be a mystical, metaphysical experience.

When nobody has a majority, the House of Representatives, voting by states and with the same quorum requirements as under the original procedure, chooses a President.

The original plan was to use workers brought in from Europe ; however, there was a poor response to recruitment efforts, and African Americans — free and slave — comprised the majority of the work force.

The majority of the Old World of Darkness games were adapted into the original Mind's Eye Theatre format for live-action roleplaying.

This is because the original specification only allowed for remote method invocation through CORBA ( and optionally other protocols ), even though the large majority of business applications actually do not require this distributed computing functionality.

By the year 1700, under pressure from European colonists, the majority of these original inhabitants had been driven away.

The vast majority of film theaters are unable to handle 70mm film, and so original 70mm films are shown with 35mm prints at these venues, in the regular CinemaScope / Panavision aspect ratio of 2. 35: 1.

The vast majority of Drow Elves both male and female in the original campaign setting of Greyhawk have no authority or ranking at all and live an idle and degenerate life in the great city of the Drow.

Descendants of the IBM PC compatibles comprise the majority of personal computers on the market presently, although interoperability with the bus structure and peripherals of the original PC architecture may be limited or non-existent.

In the original city state democracy, the majority rule was an aspect of arché because it was a rule-based, customary system, which might or might not make laws, i. e. nomos.

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.

Robertson is credited as writer or co-writer for the majority of The Band's songs, but sang lead vocals on only three of their studio recordings (" To Kingdom Come ", " Knockin ' Lost John " and " Out Of The Blue ").

Follow the Leader marked the first album where the majority of the lyrics did not have origins relating to early occurrences, with songs like " Justin " and " Pretty " written about incidents occurring during adulthood.

Haley, who was fluent in Spanish, recorded a number of songs in the language, but the vast majority of the band's output during these years were instrumental recordings, many utilizing local session musicians playing trumpet.

In addition to featuring the majority of Prince's hit singles ( with the exception of " Batdance " and other songs that appeared on the Batman soundtrack ), The Hits includes an array of previously hard-to-find recordings, notably B-sides spanning the majority of Prince's career, as well as a handful of previously unreleased tracks such as the Revolution-recorded " Power Fantastic " and a live recording of " Nothing Compares 2 U " with Rosie Gaines.

Many of the words used by Rambling Syd were invented by the Round The Horne scriptwriters Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the majority of the songs lyrics, based upon traditional folk songs.

" The majority of the actors performing the songs in the film Carmen Jones were dubbed.

Spoken Lingala is largely used in informal functions, and the majority of Lingala songs use spoken Lingala over other variations.

Only three songs from Roman Candle were performed, with the majority of the ten-song set being B-sides, Heatmiser tunes, and unreleased tracks.

Carnatic music is largely devotional ; the majority of the songs are addressed to the Hindu deities.

Keaggy sang the majority of songs, but Pecchio and Sferra also sang lead on several numbers.

With Dukowski gone, Ginn ceded much of the spotlight to Rollins, who had expressed some discomfort over being the group's de facto spokesman, while Ginn was the recognized leader ( Ginn wrote the majority of the group's songs and lyrics ).

Worrell ’ s synthesizer work is prominent on the majority of Parliament ’ s most popular ( and most sampled ) songs throughout the 1970s, most notably ” Mothership Connection ( Star Child )” and “ Give Up the Funk ( Tear the Roof Off the Sucker )” from Mothership Connection, " Flash Light from Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome and " Aqua Boogie " from Motor Booty Affair.

Young, Stills and Furay would all record demos for the album, but Greene and Stone, who had installed themselves as the album's producers, deemed Young's voice " too weird " and assigned lead vocals on the majority of Young's songs to Furay.

With Dukowski gone, Ginn ceded much of the spotlight to Rollins, who had expressed some discomfort over being the group's de facto spokesman, while Ginn was the recognized leader ( Ginn wrote the majority of the group's songs and lyrics ).

Although some of these songs (" Caves of Altamira ", " Brooklyn ", " Barrytown ") were re-recorded for Steely Dan albums, the majority of them were never officially released.

1996 saw his first release with them, Making Light of It, a low-key collection of songs, the majority returning to an introspective demeanor and tone, produced by David Miner ( T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello ), and featuring Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong of The Choir.

Arne wrote close to two hundred vocal songs during his career, the majority of which were written for performance at London's pleasure gardens.

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.

Destiny Fulfilled saw equality in the trio: each member contributed to writing on the majority songs, as well as becoming executive producers aside from their manager.

Although his elder brother Noel Gallagher wrote the majority of Oasis's songs, Liam has penned the singles " Songbird " and " I'm Outta Time ", along with a string of album tracks and B-sides.

He helped produce and co-write a majority of the songs on the album ; bassist Justin Siegel said " I've never laughed so hard so consistently in my whole life.