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 ).

Recent work suggests that this may not be the case with single stranded viruses forming the majority of viruses found in sea water, fresh water, sediment, terrestrial, extreme, metazoan-associated and marine microbial mats.

The vast majority of heavy goods trade is done by sea.

A majority of the islands ' land mass is at sea level.

The majority of water on Earth is sea water.

The majority of echiurans live in shallow water, but there are also deep sea forms.

The majority of crustaceans are also motile, moving about independently, although a few taxonomic units are parasitic and live attached to their hosts ( including sea lice, fish lice, whale lice, tongue worms, and Cymothoa exigua, all of which may be referred to as " crustacean lice "), and adult barnacles live a sessile life – they are attached headfirst to the substrate and cannot move independently.

* The most outstanding feature in San Salvador and the metropolitan area is the Boquerón Volcano, although the San Salvador municipality only has territory on its foothills, the volcano can't be missed from the majority of the city due to its height of 1, 893 meters ( 6, 211 feet ) above sea level.

The majority of the sea's islands are uninhabited making them ideal breeding grounds for seals, sea lions, seabirds, and other sea island fauna.

As the majority of the populous live in capital cities relatively close to the sea, the cuisine of these regions has been influenced by involving quality fresh seafood.

Related species are grown as ornamental plants in gardens, and these may also be called " sea holly ", though the majority are not associated with littoral ( sea-shore ) habitats.

The tower, built like many coastal Churches to act as a beacon by ships out at sea, constitutes the majority of the medieval structure, the rest having been rebuilt in the ensuing centuries.

The majority of the people of the Bayou Puerto sector made their livelihoods primarily from the sea and forest.

* Indian integration of Junagadh: The princely state of Junagadh, which had a Hindu majority and a Muslim ruler acceded to Pakistan on 15 September 1947, claiming a connection by sea.

The great majority of Australians live close to the sea and Australian seafood restaurants have been listed among the world's best.

Fruit flies, nematode worms, mice and rats together account for the vast majority, though small numbers of other species are used, ranging from sea slugs through to armadillos.

The majority of the municipality lies about above sea level.

The majority was sent to Jagatara ( Jakarta ) and are still remembered by the locals as the people who wrote the poignant letters which were smuggled across the sea to their homeland.

They are migratory, the majority of the groups spend the winter around the artic ice cap but when the sea ice melts in summer they move to warmer river estuaries and coastal areas.

A maritime nation is any nation which borders the sea and is dependent on its use for majority of the following state activities: commerce and transport, war, to define a territorial boundary, or for any maritime activity ( activities using the sea to convey or produce an end result ).

Despite this, 80 of the returning aircraft were lost, some crashing on flight decks, the majority going into the sea.

A recently opened fish pass at Monmouth allowing migratory fish to by-pass a previously impassable weir has once more given salmon and sea trout access to the majority of the catchment and salmon were seen jumping at Kentchurch weir for the first time for many years in the Autumn of 2008.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

When he came of age in 1902, the week of his majority was marked by festivities, bullfights, balls and receptions throughout Spain.

Approximately 55 % of enrollees were from rural communities, a majority of which were non-farm ; 45 % came from urban.

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.

In order to solve the Gheg-Tosk divide, books were written in the Tosk dialect, and the majority of the Party's members came from southern Albania where the Tosk dialect is spoken.

Except in the periods 1969 – 72 and 1976 – 82, when the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Brandt and Schmidt came in second in the elections, the Chancellor has always been the candidate of the largest party, usually supported by a coalition of two parties with a majority in the parliament.

They are the descendants of economic migrants that came to Gibraltar after the majority of the Spanish population left in 1704.

The Greens and the SPD came one seat short of a governing majority, but after multiple negotiations about coalitions of SPD and Greens with either the FDP or The Left, the SPD and Greens decided to form a minority government, which was possible because under the constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia a plurality of seats is sufficient to elect a minister-president.

The CDU / CSU came up one seat short of an outright majority.

The concepts held by Muenzer and Winstanley were superbly attuned to the needs of their time — a historical period when the majority of the population lived in the countryside and when the most militant revolutionary forces came from an agrarian world.

In the concurrent elections, the PRI came within 11 seats of losing the majority of Chamber of Deputies, and opposition parties captured 4 of the 64 Senate seats-the first time that the PRI had failed to hold every seat in the Senate.

After the black majority came to power in South Africa, Gandhi was proclaimed a national hero with numerous monuments.

When war came in 1941, the vast majority of Methodists strongly supported the national war effort, but there were also a few ( 673 ) conscientious objectors.

In the late 20th century, a majority of motels in the United States came under the ownership of people of Indian descent, particularly Gujaratis as the original " mum and pop " owners retired from the motel industry and sold their properties.

The folklorist Sabina Magliocco came to a somewhat different conclusion based upon her ethnographic research of pagans in California, remarking that the majority were " white, middle-class, well-educated urbanites " but that they were united in finding " artistic inspiration " within " folk and indigenous spiritual traditions.

It came as a shock to many when the Conservatives won a majority, but the perceived triumphalism of a Labour party rally in Sheffield ( together with Kinnock's performance on the podium ) may have helped

The final break came as Bismarck searched for a new parliamentary majority, with his Kartell voted from power due to the anti-socialist bill fiasco.

Prior to 1902, the Prime Minister sometimes came from the House of Lords, provided that his government could form a majority in the Commons.

While many members of the UP were involved with the FARC-EP, the large majority of them were not and came from a wide variety of backgrounds such as labor unions and socialist parties such as the PCC.

Municipal elections followed in late 1992, in which the MLSTP came back to win a majority of seats on five of seven regional councils.

Since the constitution of 1978 came into effect, there have not been any coalition governments, even if the party with the largest number of seats has failed to obtained absolute majority, though in such cases the party in government has had to rely on the support of minority parties to gain confidence and to approve the State's budgets.

The Jordanian-held majority of Samaria came under the control of Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

In 1919, after World War I, the eastern part ( with a majority of ethnic Poles ) came under Polish rule as the Silesian Voivodeship, while the mostly German-speaking western part remained part of the German Reich as the Province of Upper Silesia.

The PNM, led by Patrick Manning, carried a majority of 21 seats, and the UNC came in second.

The vast majority of inhabitants were converted to Hanifism, while the Balkar-HunOghuz brought the beginnings of the Turkic Turkmen language that came to dominate the area.