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The majority of the original stained glass windows survive intact, while the architecture has seen only minor changes since the early 13th century.
The majority of the windows now visible at Chartres were made and installed between 1205 and 1240, however four lancets preserve panels of Romanesque glass from the 12th century which survived the fire of 1195.
The majority of windows were cleaned and restored by the famous local workshop Atelier Lorin at the end of the 19th century but they continued to deteriorate.
Despite the results of contemporary maintenance, a large majority of buildings retain many other significant features, such as original windows, doors, porches, chimneys and rooflines.
The 1972-76 fleet of GM " New Look " buses, 1870 total, which were originally air-conditioned ( although there were problems with the air-conditioning systems, resulting in their eventually being disabled and sliding windows installed in the buses ), comprised the majority vehicles in service into the early 1990s.
Only a small number of windows were completed as part of the 19th-century restoration, but this began a process that resulted in the vast majority of windows containing stained glass by the middle of the 20th century.
The majority of houses built in this period benefitted from rear yards accessed directly off back alleyways, whilst some, particularly on the edge of the district along Hollingreave Road, Emily Street, Dall Street and Reed Street were provided with an additional enclosed space at the front of the houses separate from the pavement, some even with bay windows and basements.
It is also unique in that a majority of its structures are made of brick, and the neighborhood contains the highest concentration of residential homes with stained glass windows in the U. S. Many of the buildings are in the Victorian-era styles of Romanesque, Queen Anne, Italianate, among others ; and a large number of blocks have had few or no buildings razed.
There are three staffed ticket windows and a number of ticket machines to serve the majority of the traffic that enters the station.
While this ( or any ) tactic would be useless for someone at ground zero during a nuclear blast, it would be beneficial to the vast majority of people who are positioned away from the blast hypocenter: both the thermal pulse of some weapons and shrapnel from all weapons ( particularly from shattered windows ) could be evaded.
Features such as wind-down windows were seen as a necessary step forward to meet competition and achieve good sales in the important US market, where the vast majority of TR4s were eventually sold.
The majority of the windows and cladding were installed.
Most of the stained glass windows are designed by Percy Bacon Bros and the majority were donated as memorials by parishioners in the period from 1900 to 1910.
This refurbishment made a majority of the building's exterior a sheer wall, with the exception of floor-to-ceiling windows on the 16th floor.
The majority of bungalows did include some elements of mass production ; typically doors, windows, and built-in furnishings such as bookcases, desks, or folding beds were sourced from lumber yards or from catalogs.
A majority of these homes have ten-to fourteen-foot ceilings, tall distinctive windows, wood floors, and plaster walls.
He sketched cartoons for the majority of the 74 stained glass windows.

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Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.
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.
For me it has more of both elements than the majority of its competitors.
This viewpoint has now been translated into action by the majority of people in this country.
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.
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.
Although it has previously been assigned to its own genus Alopex, genetic evidence places it in Vulpes ( Mammal Species of the World ) with the majority of the other foxes.
While small areas of the outback consist of clay soils the majority has exceedingly infertile palaeosols.
While small areas of the outback consist of clay soils the majority has exceedingly infertile palaeosols.
The brain of a shark shows the basic components in a straightforward way, but in teleost fishes ( the great majority of existing fish species ), the forebrain has become " everted ", like a sock turned inside out.
Following reform in 2005, the governor lost exclusive responsibility regarding decisions of external relevance ( i. e. banking and financial supervision ), which has been transferred to the Directorate ( by majority vote ).
Bethlehem has a Muslim majority, but is also home to one of the largest Palestinian Christian communities.
Over succeeding decades the number of societies has decreased, as various societies merged to form larger ones, often renaming in the process, and other societies opted for demutualisation followed by-in the great majority of cases-eventual takeover by a listed bank.
Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.
As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).
The Boer nation has revealed a distinct Calvinist culture and the majority of Boers today are still members of a Reformed Church.
The majority of the Serbs who fled from the former Krajina have not returned due to fears of ethnic violence, discrimination and property repossession problems, and the Croatian government has yet to achieve the conditions for full reintegration.
The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, has the procedural duty of appointing the prime minister with the consent of the Sabor ( Parliament ) through a simple majority vote, and has some influence on foreign policy.
The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.
In Finland, no party has had an absolute majority in the parliament since independence, and multi-party coalitions have been the norm.
Post-World War II Japan has historically been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party but there was a brief coalition government formed after the 1993 election following LDP's first loss of its overall House of Representatives majority since 1955.
Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

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Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
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.
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.
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.
Amalric, who had been given the County of Jaffa as an apanage when he reached the age of majority in 1151, remained loyal to Melisende in Jerusalem, and when Baldwin invaded the south, Amalric was besieged in the Tower of David with his mother.
Although Hutus encompass the majority of the population, historically Tutsis have been politically and economically dominant.
Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.
The majority of those who accepted the reform message have been disfellowshipped due to the Adventist church rejecting it.
Nonconformist members and members from constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the majority of English Members of Parliament.
Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.
It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

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