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 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.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

This excluded a majority of the population, namely slaves, freed slaves, children, women and metics.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

The majority of the population ( 83 %) are Afro-Caribbean, descended from the slaves brought to the islands by the British.

Although Hutus encompass the majority of the population, historically Tutsis have been politically and economically dominant.

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 ..

Deutero-Isaiah delivered his prophesies to this group, which was actually quite small – the majority of the population stayed in Judah.

The majority of the remaining population is in eastern and southern South Africa, with a small and separate population in the Etosha Pan of northern Namibia.

The majority of the population in Kalimantan is either Muslim or practice animism.

Official sources only states “ the majority of the population is mulatto ” (“… maioritariamente mestiça …”) without stating any number.

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.

It is one of four counties of Northern Ireland presently to have a majority of the population from a Catholic background, according to the 2001 census.

A majority representing 62 % of the EU's population may also be taken into account.

Much of southern and western Connecticut ( along with the majority of the state's population ) is part of the New York metropolitan area ; three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area.

" Unilateral disarmament has always been opposed by a majority of the British public, with the level of support for unilateralism remaining steady at around one in four of the population.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

The region contains the largest cities and the majority of the population of Colorado.

The wealth held by the top 10 % rose considerably over the two decades, but there was little improvement in the wealth levels in rural areas, which comprised the great majority of the population.

The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada.

The majority of objects ( the so-called ' cold population '), have low inclinations and near-circular orbits.

The majority of the world's vanilla is the V. planifolia variety, more commonly known as Bourbon vanilla ( after the former name of Réunion, Île Bourbon ) or Madagascar vanilla, which is produced in Madagascar and neighboring islands in the southwestern Indian Ocean, and in Indonesia.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Madagascar is currently responsible for the vast majority of the world's Bourbon vanilla production and 58 % of the world total vanilla fruit production.

December 2002 legislative elections gave his newly formed TIM ( Tiako-I-Madagasikara ) ( I Love Madagascar ) Party a commanding majority in the National Assembly.

These populations have mixed in a melting pot very early on in the history of the island ( indeed first settlers married women from Madagascar and of Indo-portugese heritage ) resulting in a majority population of mixed race and in a " Creole " culture.

Tropical Africa and Madagascar contain the majority of the genus with one outlier found on Sri Lanka, and three species once thought to belong to the genus in Japan and the Philippines.

The boxes are native to western and southern Europe, southwest, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, Madagascar, northernmost South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, with the majority of species being tropical or subtropical ; only the European and some Asian species are frost-tolerant.

In Madagascar, there are about 30, 000 Chinese, the majority of them came from the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong.

These are now on hold and the airline is majority owned by the Madagascar government.

The majority of the population of Madagascar is primarily a mixture of various degrees of Austronesian and Bantu settlers from Southeast Asia ( Borneo ) and East Africa ( primarily Mozambique ), respectively.

Orange owns majority shares in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania, Denmark, Slovakia, Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic, Cameroon, Botswana, Madagascar, Moldova ( see Orange Moldova ) and Spain ( previously Amena ).

In 1950, the French government took over majority ownership of the Banque de Madagascar et des Comores.

They are the majority frog species in New Guinea and Madagascar.

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 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 Boer nation has revealed a distinct Calvinist culture and the majority of Boers today are still members of a Reformed Church.

This is especially true of printers equipped with support for PostScript or PCL, which includes the vast majority of printers produced today.

" A substantial majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their life, consider themselves to be Christian, and claim to have some type of meaningful personal commitment to Jesus Christ active in their life today.

* The state of the dead: The majority of standard scholarly Jewish and Christian sources today describe the state of the dead in terms identical or very close to the Christadelphian view.

The study notes that maximum benefit may be seen when the information worker is spending large proportions of their time reading text ( which is not necessarily the case for the majority of computer users today ).

The vast majority of people with AIDS have never received antiretroviral drugs, including those in developed countries prior to the licensure of AZT ( zidovudine ) in 1987, and people in developing countries today where very few individuals have access to these medications.

The majority of Convention violations that the Court finds today are excessive delays, in violation of the " reasonable time " requirement, in civil and criminal proceedings before national courts, mostly in Italy and France.

Generally, however, the vast majority of stock used today is " normal " ( visible spectrum ) color, although " normal " black and white also commands a significant minority percentage.

The vast majority of aircraft today are general aviation types.

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.

According to Ann E. Killebrew, " Most scholars today accept that the majority of the conquest narratives in the book of Joshua are devoid of historical reality ".

The majority of these recipes are not employed today, as there are few companies to be found that produce them.

The initial Micronesian population, which remains the overwhelming majority today, was visited by Polynesian and Melanesian invaders before the first European sailors discovered the islands in the 16th century.

The majority ( over 100 thousand ) gradually left and after the improvement of German-Polish relations by the German Ostpolitik of the 1970s 55, 227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany in between 1971 and 1988, today approximately between 5, 000 and 6, 000 Masurians still live in the area, about 50 percent of them members of the German minority in Poland, the remaining half is ethnic Polish.

The majority of microcontrollers in use today are embedded in other machinery, such as automobiles, telephones, appliances, and peripherals for computer systems.

It is estimated that there are about 865 million olive trees in the world today ( as of 2005 ), and the vast majority of these are found in Mediterranean countries, although traditionally marginal areas account for no more than 25 % of olive planted area and 10 % of oil production.

Though the vast majority of Igbos today are Christian, many of them still use oracles.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica comments that " the consensus of the great majority of scholars today is that the most obvious and traditional understanding should be construed, namely, that rock refers to the person of Peter ".

The rate at which these events occur is governed largely by the mass of the intermediate or particles, so by assuming these reactions are responsible for the majority of the baryon number seen today, a maximum mass can be calculated above which the rate would be too slow to explain the presence of matter today.

The Qing Dynasty was founded not by the Han Chinese who form the majority of the Chinese population, but the Manchus, who are today an ethnic minority of China.

The majority of pipes sold today, whether hand made or machine made, are fashioned from briar ().

This general agreement began to break down in the late 1970s, and today there are many theories but no consensus, or even majority viewpoint.