Indeed, in initiating his columns, Mbeki stated his view that the bulk of South African media sources did not speak for or to the South African majority, and stated his intent to use ANC Today to speak directly to his constituents rather than through the media.

Then, the main attack, directly against the earthworks manned by the vast majority of American troops, would be launched in two columns ( along the river led by Keane and along the swamp line led by Major General Samuel Gibbs ).

The exception was the Southern Railway – mainly because the majority of the Southern's operations were based around short-distance commuter, suburban and rural services with frequent station stops where water could be taken on from water columns.

The majority of the building was instead imploded at 7: 30 a. m. on March 25, 2012, leaving only the corner columns standing, which would be removed along with the rest of the rubble over the following months.

The majority of the building was supported by concrete slabs and columns with only the original 1903-08 building using massive heavy timber construction from the old growth forests that were available near Vancouver at the turn of the 20th century.

She began writing a majority of the columns since the early 1990s, though, until 2000, her mother did not publicly acknowledge her as the column's co-writer.

The majority of mainstream criticism of cryptozoology is thus directed towards the search for megafauna cryptids such as Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster, which appear often in popular culture, but for which there is little or no scientific support.

To deal with a situation in which no clear majorities appear through general elections, parties either form coalition cabinets, supported by a parliamentary majority, or minority cabinets which may consist of one or more parties.

Given that the vast majority of all emeralds are treated as described above, and the fact that two stones that appear visually similar may actually be quite far apart in treatment level and therefore in value, a consumer considering a purchase of an expensive emerald is well advised to insist upon a treatment report from a reputable gemological laboratory.

The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.

The two highest vote-winners in the primary — in effect, the first round of a two-round system — are then the only candidates whose names appear on the ballot at the general election, effectively requiring one candidate to win an absolute majority to take office.

A written acknowledgment does appear on-screen that the Royal Navy captured the first, and subsequently the vast majority, of the Naval Enigma devices.

The vast majority of loan words did not appear in documents until the early 12th century ; these included many modern words which used sk-sounds, such as skirt, sky, and skin ; other words appearing in written sources at this time included again, awkward, birth, cake, dregs, fog, freckles, gasp, law, moss, neck, ransack, root, scowl, sister, seat, sly, smile, want, weak and window from Old Norse meaning " wind-eye ".

Although the majority of wildebeest populations migrate, some populations do not, and appear to never have done so in recorded history.

For instance, in a 1942 lecture, published posthumously, Heidegger said of recent German classics scholarship: " In the majority of ' research results ,' the Greeks appear as pure National Socialists.

Natural transformations are, after categories and functors, one of the most basic notions of category theory and consequently appear in the majority of its applications.

In the vast majority of such cases, one of the planets will appear to pass north or south of the other.

The majority of moles appear during the first two decades of a person ’ s life, while about one in every 100 babies is born with moles.

Most caucasoid-like Vulcans ( a majority of those shown throughout the series ' runs ) typically appear with a subtle greenish hue to their skin, due to Vulcans ' copper-based blood, which is green in color.

The cases appear verifiable, and the great majority identify ( 1 ) the individual practitioner, often with age, occupation, and residence ; ( 2 ) the time and location that the alleged abuse took place, down to the level of the district, township, village, and often the specific jail institution ; and ( 3 ) the names and ranks of the alleged perpetrators.

The shergottites appear to have crystallised as recently as 180 million years ago, which is a surprisingly young age considering how ancient the majority of the surface of Mars appears to be, and the small size of Mars itself.

" Simek says that the majority of the names of the valkyries point to a warlike function, that most of their names do not appear to be very old, and that the names " mostly come from poetic creativity rather than from real folk-belief.

' For it was necessary, owing to the different methods of education, to speak of the differences of belief among men, some of whom are more, others less fortunate in their belief ; and from this to proceed to show that what is termed good or bad fortune would appear to contribute even in the case of the most talented, to their appearing to be more fully endowed with reason and to give their assent on grounds of reason to the majority of human opinions.

The majority of CpG sites in embryonic stem cells are unmethylated and appear to be associated with H3K4me3-carrying nucleosomes.

The vast majority of Viola species are herbaceous, and a substantial number are acaulescent in habit-meaning they lack any noticeable stems and the foliage and flowers appear to rise from the ground ; the remaining species have short stems with foliage and flowers produced in the axils of the leaves.

It would appear that Nuttall wrote the majority of that entry on the following day, the 8th.

The majority of the inhabitants appear to have been members of the Tswana people ( also spelled Bechuana ), but in the valleys of the Orange and Vaal were Koranbas and other Khoekhoes, and in the Drakensberg and on the western border lived numbers of Bushmen.

By 1745, the first map, in the 1 / 8628th, of Châlus is established to appear in the atlas of Trudaine for the majority of Limoges, with the portion of road at the level of La-Ribière going to Châlus of the Big road from Limoges to Périgueux and with the portion of road reaching the majority of Périgord.

Discriminated groups In North America and Europe frequently modified their accents, word choices, manner of dress, grooming habits, and even their names in an attempt to appear to be members of a majority group or of a privileged minority group.

Li ' l Bad Wolf stories began in issue # 52 ( January 1945 ) and remained a regular feature for more than ten years, continuing to appear in the majority of issues even after the continuous run stopped.

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.