And the great majority of these people are of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent.

Further, and as an evidence of legislative intent only, the Senate of the United States recently defeated by a substantial majority the `` Holland Amendment '' to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have specifically limited the regulatory authority of the Secretary in these matters.

The extreme of Calvinism is hyper-Calvinism, which insists that signs of election must be sought before evangelization of the unregenerate takes place and that the eternally damned have no obligation to repent and believe, and on the extreme of Arminianism is Pelagianism, which rejects the doctrine of original sin on grounds of moral accountability ; but the overwhelming majority of Protestant, evangelical pastors and theologians hold to one of these two systems or somewhere in between.

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.

Stephanos Bibas writes in a 2003 analysis for Cornell Law Review that Judge Frank H. Easterbrook and a majority of scholars " praise these pleas as efficient, constitutional means of resolving cases.

This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

However, the Taimanis, Ferozkohis, and Jamshidis are of Iranian origin, and refer to themselves as Tajik ; the majority of the Aimaqs in Afghanistan are of these latter three sub-groups.

When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases.

The majority of modern scholars accept one of these two dates, with most accepting the Domitianic one.

The vast majority of these products are exported, mainly to the United States.

At the same time the vast majority of these resources are exported, integrating Canada closely into the international economy.

The interpretations of these courts-for example, Supreme Court interpretations of the constitution or federal statutes-are stable only so long as the older interpretation maintains the support of a majority of the court.

The majority of these go back to the 48 constellations defined by Ptolemy in his Almagest ( 2nd century ).

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.

All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than 24 hours and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than 1 minute.

All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than 2. 5 hours, and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than 5 minutes.

Vendors with security problems supply regular security updates ( see " Patch Tuesday "), and if these are installed to a machine then the majority of worms are unable to spread to it.

Because of these differences, corporate lawyers are often consulted in an effort to determine the most appropriate or advantageous state in which to incorporate, and a majority of public companies in the U. S. are Delaware corporations.

The majority of these non-protein molecules have a molecular mass of less than 300 Da.

" Upham's book refers to Robert Calef 25 times with the majority of these regarding documents compiled by Calef in the mid-1690s and stating: " Although zealously devoted to the work of exposing the enormities connected with the witchcraft prosecutions, there is no ground to dispute the veracity of Calef as to matters of fact.

The alternative majority in these issues was because the Social liberal Party ( Radikale Venstre ) supported the governing majority in economic policy issues, but was against certain NATO policies and voted with the left in these issues.

In 18th and 19th century Germany, several thousand local languages of the continental west Germanic dialect continuum were reclassified as dialects of modern New High German although the vast majority of them were ( and still are ) mutually incomprehensible, despite the fact that they all existed long before New High German, which had at least in part been shaped as a compromise or mediative language between these local languages.

The dsDNA tailed phages, or Caudovirales, account for 95 % of all the phages reported in the scientific literature, and possibly make up the majority of phages on the planet.

The concentration of the biblical literature on the experience of the exiles in Babylon disguises the fact that the great majority of the population remained in Judah, and for them life after the fall of Jerusalem probably went on much as it had before.

Some even argue that modernism in literature and art functioned to sustain an elite culture which excluded the majority of the population.

Much of the medical literature in this area is composed of case studies of single or twin pregnancies, and although some have reported serious complications, the majority have found ECT to be safe.

Gradually, the wealthy and the government anglicised again, although Norman ( and subsequently French ) remained the dominant language of literature and law for a few centuries, even after the loss of the majority of the continental possessions of the English monarchy.

Although the vast majority of health websites provide general information, there is growing research literature on the development and evaluation of Internet interventions.

Research literature shows that no matter whether deaf people use sign language, speech, or assistive technology like the hearing aid and the cochlear implant prosthesis, the majority of deaf adults eventually marry another deaf person and join the deaf community to share in the rewards of the language and culture.

The vast majority of these deal exclusively with English-Canadian or French-Canadian literature, while only extremely few works discuss Canadian literature written in English and Canadian literature written in French in a balanced way, for instance: Reingard M. Nischik ( ed.

The majority of evangelism used by Jews for Jesus consists of handing out literature on the streets, one-on-one Bible studies, full-page ads in leading newspapers and magazines, ISSUES ( an eight-page evangelistic publication for Jewish seekers ) and internet evangelism.

Throughout the history of recorded literature, the majority of fictional writing has served not only to entertain but also to instruct, inform or improve their audiences or readership.

This Almanac is noteworthy in that it provides a huge amount ( 46 pages ) of background information — all of which is taken from pre-existing literary works or mythology, a large majority of which is difficult to fully appreciate without an esoteric knowledge of literature.

Reviewing its uses in scholarly literature, historian Werner Bergmann proposes that pogroms be " defined as a unilateral, nongovernmental form of collective violence initiated by the majority population against a largely defenseless ethnic group, and occurring when the majority expect the state to provide them with no assistance in overcoming a ( perceived ) threat from the minority ," but adds that in western usage, the word's " anti-Semitic overtones " have been retained.

Secondly, there are also those who question whether " the literature ... with its intellectually elitist bias fails to directly address the majority of its practitioners ".

Thus, until that time it was necessary to be fluent in reading and writing hanja in order to be literate in Korean, as the vast majority of Korean literature and most other Korean documents were written in hanja.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

Although the majority of the literature mentions only one genus transmitting Leishmania to humans ( Lutzomyia ) in America, a 2003 study by Galati suggested a new classification for American sand flies, elevating several subgenera to the genus level.

The group maintained that the vast majority of people in Britain remained exploited by the ruling class and their official literature has long stated that about 75 % of the country is working-class.

The Quebec City law, according to the majority of justices, created an effect where the chief of police would have to act in the role of a censor, deciding whether the literature was objectionable.

While Western participants ' responses were exactly what would have been expected by reading the philosophical literature, ( Bob only believes that Jill drives an American car ), the majority of East Asian participants actually reported the opposite ( Bob truly knows that Jill drives an American car ).

Later however, he credited his adoption of socialism because of reading left-wing literature, with the majority of them being written by Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas during the Great Depression.

To the majority of modern readers, even more useful is the wealth of information provided in the Deipnosophists about earlier Greek literature.

As one of the central characters throughout the entire series, Piper appears in the majority of Charmed literature.