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majority and clocks
The vast majority of Great Britain's public clocks were being synchronised using GMT by 1855.

majority and are
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.
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.
The great majority of Anglicans are members of churches which are part of the international Anglican Communion .< ref name =" acomm ">
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.

majority and caesium
The vast majority of caesium compounds contain the element as the cation, which binds ionically to a wide variety of anions.

majority and ;
She arrived late and as she entered the party, noted that gentlemen seemed to be in the majority ; ;
The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.
* 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.
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.
Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.
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.
The moderate senators and representatives ( who constituted a majority of the Union party ) asked him for only a slight compromise ; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from the policy of the radicals.
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.
Steiner's continuing differences with Besant led him to separate from the Theosophical Society Adyar ; he was followed by the great majority of the membership of the Theosophical Society's German Section, as well as members of other national sections.
This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.
Artillery is the most lethal form of land-based armament ; in the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II the vast majority of combat deaths were caused by artillery.
* Use of a chemical modifier in order to stabilize the analyte to a pyrolysis temperature that is sufficient to remove the majority of the matrix components ;
However, the Taimanis, Ferozkohis, and Jamshidis are of Iranian origin, and refer to themselves as Tajik ; the majority of the Aimaqs in Afghanistan are of these latter three sub-groups.
The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.
The majority of Tallard's retreating troops headed for Höchstädt but most did not make the safety of the town, plunging instead into the Danube where upwards of 3, 000 French horsemen drowned ; others were cut down by the pursuing cavalry.
South of the World Financial Center lies the majority of Battery Park City's residential areas, in three sections: " Gateway Plaza ", a high-rise building complex ; the " Rector Place Residential Neighborhood " and the " Battery Place Residential Neighborhood ".

majority and definition
According to McBrien, the majority of the bishops were not so much interested in a formal definition of papal infallibility as they were in strengthening papal authority and, because of this, were willing to accept the agenda of the infallibilists.
The majority in Coker stated that " rape by definition does not include the death of or even the serious injury to another person.
The majority of the Armenian, Syrian, Coptic, and Ethiopian Christians rejected the Chalcedonian definition, and are now known collectively as the Oriental Orthodox churches.
A popular definition includes that circulation must be 1, 000 or less, although in practice the significant majority are produced in editions of less than 100, and profit is not the primary intent of publication.
Among other challenges, the consensus scoring criterion means that it is impossible to create items ( questions ) that only a minority of respondents can solve, because, by definition, responses are deemed emotionally " intelligent " only if the majority of the sample has endorsed them.
The legal definition of " child " generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority.
The territorial definition of the proposed state consists of the Indian state of Punjab, where Sikhs are the majority population ; however, being roughly analogous to the historical Sikh Empire ( 1707 – 1849 ), some believe other territories of the greater Punjab region should also be included.
In contrast to the Second Congress, the Mensheviks were in the majority from start to finish ; yet, Martov's definition of a party member, which had prevailed at the First Congress, was replaced by Lenin's.
Miller provided states greater freedom in prosecuting alleged purveyors of " obscene " material because, for the first time since Roth, a majority of the Court agreed on a definition of " obscenity.
The definition of " majority vote " can differ, however, from one parliamentary authority to another.
A Briton might say " Alice won with a majority of 9 " ( since Alice polled 9 more votes than her closest competitor ), whereas a Canadian would only say " Alice won with a plurality ", since the Canadian definition uses the word " majority " only if Alice would have polled more than all her competitors combined.
There are some previously ( see for Chapter two, for chapter four, for chapter five, for chapter six ) and some posteriorly ( see for Chapter one and more updated two, thus of both previous versions of language definition and, for chapter three and for chapter seven ) of publishing versions of the majority of its eight chapters individually available from prior DEC Systems Research Center ( SRC ) as research reports for download.
The single-winner methods of range voting, majority judgment and approval voting are also monotonic as one can never help a candidate by reducing or removing support for them, but these require a slightly different definition of monotonicity as they are not ranked voting systems.
The majority of PNETs are usually categorized as benign but the definition of malignancy in pancreas endocrine tumors has been ambiguous.
This definition has been adopted partially or completely by the majority of the states in the United States.
The majority of them have some definition similar to that used in the State of Texas, whose definition states
Within Quebec, changes to the treatment of French-speakers within the federal public service were met with approval mixed with a media scepticism that this actually helped the unilingual French-speaking majority of Quebecers, who continued to be excluded from some federal jobs designated " bilingual ", since by definition a " bilingual " job requires the use of English, and is therefore closed to a unilingual Francophone.
A majority times " Khalsa " is presented as " Khalis " which, if not wrong, is an incomplete definition.
In hip hop's formative years, the vast majority of the genre was underground music, by definition.
Since the absence of any candidate would leave the impression that the preference of the group of voters as a whole is a clear majority when by definition it is not when we consider the third candidate, one can argue that none of these candidates are actually " irrelevant.
Although the FA abandoned a formal definition of " amateur " in the early 1970s, the vast majority of clubs still effectively play as amateurs, with no financial reward and the leagues are not part of the National League System.
While the historical definition of child has varied, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child asserts that " A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.

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