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majority and defenders
As the season continued, once again Hannover had many key players injured including the majority of attacking players and key defenders, as well as the shocking and tragic suicide of German international goalkeeper Robert Enke.
The undermanned ARVN defenders, led by General Ngo Quang Truong, managed to hold their position, but the majority of the Citadel fell to the PAVN.
" This is the majority view, but the play has many scholarly defenders as well.
There was little effect on the defenders, except to cause them to expend the majority of their ammunition.
A majority of the justices led by Taft were staunch defenders of business and capitalism from most government regulation.
The majority of the defenders were Croatian, with a significant Hungarian contingent represented in both the men-at-arms and the leadership.
Alternatively, if the taker has taken the majority of tricks, the defenders can pool their scoring piles and count their oudlers and points ; the taker has all remaining points.
During his time with Valencia, he was widely regarded as one of the finest central defenders in the world, and with Valencia is where he would spend the majority of his peak playing career.
Bryan Perrett suggests that although the majority of last stands throughout history have seen the defending force overwhelmed, on rare occasions the outnumbered defenders succeed in their desperate endeavours and live to fight another day, and he lists the Battle of Rorke's Drift as one such engagement.
03-1164 and 03-1165 ), a majority of the Court agreed with check-off defenders that the programs are in fact " government speech " ( an issue that was not considered in the mushroom decision ).

majority and were
It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.
In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.
During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.
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.
" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.
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 Germanic elites were Arians, and the majority population was Nicene.
In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.
He was the first who had a godly zeal for the truth in philosophy and despised the views of the majority, which were a disgrace to philosophy.
It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.
These were larger than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
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.
The governors were appointed from both Catholic and Protestant cantons and since they changed every two years, neither faith gained a majority in the County.
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.
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.
The services in the majority of the chapels were in Welsh.
" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.
His superior command of Greek, and the fact that the vast majority of his writings were in Greek, led some in the West to claim that he was a Greek born in Alexandria.
Amok was officially classified as a psychiatric condition in 1849 based on the numerous reports and case studies which showed that the majority of individuals who committed amok were, in some sense, mentally ill.
A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.
While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.
Pompey had the backing of a majority of the senators, of whom many were optimates, and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions.

majority and Africans
The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..
Sangho, the language of a small group along the Oubangui River, is the national language spoken by the majority of Central Africans.
The great majority of Ecuadorans trace their origins to one or more of three geographical sources of Human migrations: the pre-Hispanic indigenous Amerindians who settled the region over 15, 000 years ago, the Europeans ( principally Spaniards ) who arrived over 5 centuries ago, and ultimately the black sub-Saharan Africans whom they imported as slave labour during the same period.
The majority of Swaziland's population is ethnic Swazi, mixed with a small number of Zulus and white Africans, mostly whites of British and Afrikaner descent.
Communication between this sector and the large majority of rural Africans was limited ; only a small proportion of the Africans could speak Portuguese, the language of the administration and the modern economic sector.
The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to the colonies in North and South America.
In the former Portuguese Africa ( now known as Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde ) racial mixing between white Portuguese and black Africans was fairly common, especially in Cape Verde where the majority of the population is of mixed descent.
We are equally satisfied ... that the majority of Africans rejected the proposals.
To black nationalist groups, Great Zimbabwe became an important symbol of achievement by black Africans: reclaiming its history was a major aim for those seeking majority rule.
This was controversial because, by virtue, it excluded the vast majority of native Africans.
The electoral roll was divided into ' General ' and ' Special ' with Special voters having much lower financial requirements than General voters, so that the majority of Special voters were Africans ( the nationality requirement had been varied so that British Protected Persons were eligible to vote ).
Both general and special voters participated in the elections and their votes counted for equal weight, although the majority of voters were Africans.
The victims came from 18 different countries, the majority being French or Congolese nationals: 54 French, 48 nationals of Republic of Congo, 25 Chadians, 9 Italians, 7 Americans, 5 Cameroonians, 4 Britons, 3 nationals of Zaire ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ), 3 Canadians, 2 Central Africans, 2 Malians, 2 Swiss, 1 Algerian, 1 Bolivian, 1 Belgian, 1 Greek, 1 Moroccan and 1 Senegalese.
Africans, who formed the majority of the population, were relegated to barren
The ultimate goal of the National Party was to move all Black South Africans into one of these homelands ( although they might continue to work in South Africa as " guest workers "), leaving what was left of South Africa ( about 87 percent of the land area ) with what would then be a White majority, at least on paper.
The arrival of Africans and Chinese immigrants in the 19th century also resulted in the development of Creole cuisine in the city of Lima, where the vast majority of these immigrants settled.
The majority of its inhabitants are Mestizo | mestizos ; that is, they result from the miscegenation of native Indians, Black Africans and White Europeans.
:" Today, water-borne diseases kill a person every ten seconds, the overwhelming majority children, and roughly one in two Sub-Saharan Africans and three in five South Asians lack adequate sanitation.
In states with ethnic issues, one party may be seen as being the party for an ethnicity or race with the party for the majority ethnic, racial or religious group dominating, e. g., ANC in South Africa ( governing since 1994 ) has strong support amongst Black South Africans, the Ulster Unionist Party governed Northern Ireland from its creation in 1921 until 1972 with the support of the Protestant majority.
It is widely believed that the term quilombo establishes a link between settlements and the culture of central West Africa where the majority of enslaved Africans were forcibly brought to Brazil.
After the Governor and the federal government refused to give Africans a majority in the Legislative Council, he embarked on a speaking tour of the territory.

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