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 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.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

The main reason for the lack of support for these efforts was that the vast majority of Creoles, especially the plantation owners, rejected any kind of separatism, considering Spain's power essential to the maintenance of slavery.

The 1922 election saw the main anti-Labor party, the Nationalist Party of Australia deprived of a majority, and were required to form a coalition in order to command a majority on the floor of parliament.

The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

The majority of the North American Bereans re-joined the main body of Christadelphians in 1952 ; though a small number continue as a separate community to the present day.

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

The main trunk road network reflects the centralising tradition of France: the majority of them leave the gates of Paris.

In the January 25, 2006 parliamentary election, the party lost its majority in the Palestinian parliament to Hamas, and resigned all cabinet positions, instead of assuming the role as the main opposition party.

Its two main strongholds were southwest France and Normandy, but even in these districts the Catholics were a majority.

While the majority of his films lost money at the box office ( the main reason for Santana's end ), at least two of them are still remembered today ; In a Lonely Place is now recognized as a masterpiece of film noir.

Although formally organised party politics plays no role in the States of Jersey assembly, members often vote together in two main blocs – a minority of members, holding broadly progressive views and critical of the Council of Ministers versus a majority of members, of conservative ideology, who support the Council of Ministers.

By the fifth to 4th centuries BC, the island had grown to an estimated population of over 120, 000 ( two to three times the estimated population in 2005 ), and based on the huge necropoli at the main city of Chios, the asty, it is thought the majority lived in that area.

The majority of stars on a typical HR diagram lie along the main sequence curve.

For the majority this is their sole or main means of respiration.

# Very large coalitions, representing a supermajority larger than the absolute majority ( 61 seats ), and thus giving the coalition's main faction ( the Prime minister's ) more options.

The majority of these ( 234, 12 and 33 respectively ) are found on the main island.

While the majority of plutinos have low orbital inclinations, a substantial number of them follow orbits similar to that of Pluto, with inclinations in the 10 – 25 ° range and eccentricities around 0. 2 – 0. 25, resulting in perihelia inside ( or close to ) the orbit of Neptune and aphelia close to the main Kuiper belt's outer edge ( where objects have 1: 2 resonance with Neptune ).

The main difference between a nonpartisan blanket primary and a standard two-round system is that a second round of voting is required, even if one candidate wins an absolute majority of votes in the primary.

Soon after, the two main opponents to Morton, the Member for Earlwood, Eric Willis, and Askin, declared that they would only take the Leadership if they were given an absolute majority of 28 votes.

The Politics of Sri Lanka reflect the historical and political differences between the two main ethnic groups, the majority Sinhala and the minority Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island.

The majority of Le Guin's main characters are people of color, a choice made to reflect the non-white majority of humans, and one to which she attributes the frequent lack of character illustrations on her book covers.

The majority of kokuji are ideogrammatic compounds ( 会意字 ), meaning that they are composed of two ( or more ) characters, with the meaning associated with the combination.

The vast majority of characters in the show were non-Hispanic Caucasian, whereas only 40 % of the population of the state identified themselves as such.

To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people " and Chinese characters are referred to as " Han characters ".

Although it was originally funded by the Carnegie Corporation and the United States Office of Education, the majority of the Workshop's funding is now earned through licensing the use of their characters to a variety of corporations to use for books, toys, and other products marketed toward children.

While a few characters are most prominent, notably Yossarian and the Chaplain, the majority of named characters are described in detail with fleshed out or multidimensional personas to the extent that there are few if any " minor characters.

In the case of Chinese, the vast majority of characters are a fixed combination of a radical that indicates its semantic category, plus a phonetic to give an idea of the pronunciation.

The majority of DC Universe characters are unaware that the original, multiverse-wide Crisis occurred.

Wubi distributes its characters very evenly and as such the vast majority of characters are uniquely defined by the 4 keystrokes discussed above.

Muscle memory will make sure that frequent typists using this method don't have to think about how the characters are actually constructed, just as the vast majority of English typists don't think very much about the spelling of words when they write.

In contrast to the popular conception of Chinese as a primarily pictographic or ideographic language, the vast majority of Chinese characters ( about 95 percent of the characters in the Shuowen Jiezi ) are constructed as either logical aggregates or, more often, phonetic complexes.

The majority of the characters were split into two sides: the righteous " Powers that Be ", and the villainous " Opposition ", the leader of which was Lord Fear played by Mark Knight.

** In the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, Sarah Jane and the other regular characters live in Ealing, and the majority of the stories take place there.

While many of the series Tomino has directed throughout his career contained an upbeat and positive tone, in which the majority of the protagonists survive, a number of his shows during the early years of his career ( the late 1970s through early 1990s ) contained endings in which a significant number of characters and protagonists died.

Artwork displaying a majority of the List of characters in Tiny Toon Adventures | Tiny Toon cast.

Titled Legend of Earthsea, it angered fans of the Earthsea novels ( and Le Guin herself ) with the announcement that Ged and the vast majority of the other characters would be played by Caucasians and with the Dramatis personæ posted on the official website ( see below ), which featured several original characters such as " The Archmagus " and " King Tygath ", " Diana ", " Penelope ", and " Marion ", and several references to " Kargide " ( not Kargad, Karg, or Kargish ) characters.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape — and the primary language of the coloured and white communities.

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.

Free-swimming () organisms are relatively rare, with the majority of organisms being bottom dwelling ( benthic ) — either moving about ( vagrant ) or permanently attached to the sea floor ( sessile ).

The 1997 legislative elections, which international observers pronounced to be substantially free, fair, and transparent, resulted in a large CDP majority — 101 to 111 seats.

The border city of Vukovar underwent a three month siege – the Battle of Vukovar — during which most of the city was destroyed and a majority of the population was forced to flee.

The coalition partners, if they control the parliamentary majority, can collude to make the parliamentary discussion on the issue irrelevant by consistently disregarding the arguments of the opposition and voting against the opposition's proposals — even if there is disagreement within the ruling parties about the issue.

) The one major exception to this in practice is the axiom of choice — unless studying this axiom in particular, the majority of researchers do not usually worry whether a result requires the axiom of choice.

Some evidence indicates that during armoured combat the intention was to actually get around the armour rather than through it — according to a study of skeletons found in Visby, Sweden, a majority of the skeletons showed wounds on less well protected legs.

Youth Cheer — high school ages and younger — make up the vast majority of cheerleaders and cheer teams.

Schottky diodes are majority carrier devices and so do not suffer from minority carrier storage problems that slow down many other diodes — so they have a faster reverse recovery than p – n junction diodes.

The large majority of Old Testament references in the New Testament are taken from the Greek Septuagint ( LXX )— which includes the deuterocanonical books, as well as apocrypha — both of which are called collectively αναγιγνοσκόμενα anagignoskomena ( things that are read or " profitable reading ").

The majority of scholars tend to understand Plotinus ' opponents as being a Gnostic sect — certainly ( specifically Sethian ), several such groups were present in Alexandria and elsewhere about the Mediterranean during Plotinus ' lifetime.

Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".

The Historical Clarification Commission ( commonly known as the " Truth Commission ") after the war estimated that more than 200, 000 people were killed — the vast majority of whom were civilian indigenous people.

50 % are Muslims — this makes Guinea-Bissau the only Portuguese-speaking nation with a Muslim majority and most Muslims are Sunnis ; 40 % are pagans, principally Fula and Mandinka.

This is a grammar, and — at least in the case of one's native language — the vast majority of the information in it is acquired not by conscious study or instruction, but by observing other speakers ; much of this work is done during infancy.

How Gerrymandering can influence electoral results on a Voting system # Nonproportional and semiproportional methods | non-proportional system. Example for a state with 3 equally sized districts, 15 voters and 2 parties: Plum ( squares ) and Orange ( circles ). In ( a ), creating 3 mixed-type districts yields a 3 – 0 win to Plum — a disproportional result considering the state-wide 9: 6 Plum majority. In ( b ), Orange wins the urban district while Plum wins the rural districts — the 2-1 result reflects the state-wide vote ratio. In ( c ), gerrymandering techniques ensure a 2-1 win to the state-wide minority Orange party.