The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

How much and how many profits could a majority take out of the losses of a few??

We know that in the early part of the century many Protestant congregations took positive action against members who transgressed the ethical codes to which the majority subscribed.

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 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

Pompey had the backing of a majority of the senators, of whom many were optimates, and his army significantly outnumbered the veteran Caesarian legions.

Until the 19th century the majority of battles were of short duration, many lasting a part of a day.

Since in a majority of constellations the brightest star is designated Alpha ( α ), many people wrongly assume that Bayer meant to put the stars exclusively in order of their brightness, but in his day there was no way to measure stellar brightness precisely.

From the inception of Bob Jones College, a majority of students and faculty were northerners, and therefore many were already Republicans living in the " Solid South.

The majority of surviving choreographies from the period are English country dances, such as those in the many editions of Playford's The Dancing Master.

However, in private, many British officials agreed with the interpretation of the Zionists that a state would be established when a Jewish majority was achieved.

While many engineering fields ( such as mechanical or electrical engineering ) do not need graduate-level training to obtain an entry-level job in their field, the majority of BME positions do prefer or even require them.

For many decades, consciousness as a research topic was avoided by the majority of mainstream scientists, because of a general feeling that a phenomenon defined in subjective terms could not properly be studied using objective experimental methods.

This, however led to a stalemate in 2006 elections where both the left and the right each gained exactly 100 seats ; as many commenters point out, the earlier system would have given the right 3 – 4 seats majority.

The vast majority of all diodes are the p – n diodes found in CMOS integrated circuits, which include two diodes per pin and many other internal diodes.

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.

Although Canada is internationally a fairly strong country in diving, the vast majority of Canadian high schools and universities do not have diving teams, and many Canadian divers accept athletic scholarships from American colleges.

Since the great majority of people who first attempted to transcribe Chinese were not linguists ( and even if they were, the principles of modern phonemics were not discovered for another two centuries ), their endeavour was marred by a lack of systematic approach and many contemporary European misconceptions about language.

As a result of the Treaty, Germany's territory was reduced by about 13 %, several million ethnic Germans came under foreign rule, even though they were the majority in many of those areas, the Rhineland was demilitarized and Allied troops occupied several areas.

Although a majority of distributism's later supporters were not Catholics and many were in fact former radical socialists who had become disillusioned with socialism ; distributist thought was adopted by the Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin concerning localized and independent communities.

The Italian Eritreans strongly rejected the Ethiopian annexation of Eritrea after the war: the Party of Shara Italy was established in Asmara in July 1947 and the majority of the members were former Italian soldiers with many Eritrean Ascari ( the organization was even backed up by the government of Italy ).

Piston-engines, which powered the vast majority of World War II fighters, grew more powerful: at the beginning of the war fighters typically had engines producing between and, while by the end of the war many could produce over.

Through considerable Fascist violence and intimidation, the list won a majority of the vote, allowing many seats to go to the Fascists.

Also, if the Flynn effect has ended for the majority in developed nations, it may still continue for minorities, especially for groups like immigrants where many may have received poor nutrition during early childhood or have had other disadvantages.

A 35mm Champion Matsuri copy was used for the majority of the film and the uncut 16mm internegative was spliced in for all the missing portions, on many occasions within the same shot as an incomplete Matsuri shot, resulting in missing frames and inconsistent quality.

The majority of details on Alcuin's life come from his letters and poems.

The vast majority ( 317 ) of Petrarch's 366 poems collected in the Canzoniere ( dedicated to Laura ) were sonnets, and the Petrarchan sonnet still bears his name.

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These are recorded in the Book of Taliesin, a 14th-century manuscript containing 56 poems, the majority of which are of a later date, but a number among which are accepted as dating to the 6th century.

The majority of his output consists of short poems in the ballade and rondeau meters, written in the French language.

Other than his Latin motets of a religious nature and some poems invoking the horrors of war and captivity, the vast majority of Machaut's lyric poems partake of the conventions of courtly love and involve statements of service to a lady and the poet's pleasure and pains.

Procter wrote a number of poems about war ( the majority of poems published on this topic in Household Words were by Procter ), although she rarely deals directly with the topic, preferring to leave war " in the background, something to be inferred rather than stated.

The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments.

As with the majority of Anglo-Saxon writing, the poems are anonymous and their provenance and dating are uncertain.

During his Spanish period, he wrote the majority of his eight-syllable poems ; during his Italian or Petrarchan period, he wrote mostly sonnets and songs ; and during his Neapolitan or classicist period, he wrote his other more classical poems, including his elegies, letters, eclogues and odes.

Rimbaud wrote the majority of poems comprising Illuminations during his stay in the UK with Verlaine at his side.

The majority of the poems included in Les Illuminations were written in 1873, the happiest year of Rimbaud ’ s and Verlaine ’ s friendship.

Despite this misleading title, Hulme in fact wrote about 25 poems totalling some 260 lines, of which the majority were possibly written between 1908 – 1910.

Still the majority of the poems are the work of one hand the 5th-century monophysite who wrote the poem on the parrot.

However she acknowledges that, despite the large number of poems attributed to Shams, that comprise the devotional repertoire of the Ismailis of Badakhshan, an overwhelming majority of these cannot be located in any of the existing works of Rumi.

In 1813, she moved to the coastal town of Luquillo, where she wrote the majority of her poems.

Like the majority of Catullus ' poems, the meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic.

The vast majority of his works were written in the Polish language, however, he also wrote several poems in Belorussian.

Unlike the majority of Catullus ' poems, the meter of this poem is the sapphic meter.

For the majority of the songs on this album, Donovan set to original melodies classic poems for and about children.