One-party systems often arise from decolonization because one party has had an overwhelmingly dominant role in liberation or in independence struggles.

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

As Davis puts it, language extinction effectively reduces the " entire range of the human imagination ... to a more narrow modality of thought ", and thus privileges the ways of knowing in dominant ( and overwhelmingly European ) languages such as English.

When the sun is well above the horizon, direct scattering of sunlight ( Rayleigh scattering ) is the overwhelmingly dominant source of light.

Notwithstanding modern technical developments, the overwhelmingly dominant track form worldwide consists of flat-bottom steel rails supported on timber or pre-stressed concrete sleepers ( railroad ties in the US ), which are themselves laid on crushed stone ballast.

This was especially true in the first half of the twentieth century when economic history was overwhelmingly dominant.

Due to their small numbers and scarce resources, the Tok ' ra favor infiltration and covert tactics meant to destabilize the System Lords and play them against one another, ensuring that no one Goa ' uld becomes overwhelmingly dominant until such time as they can all be wiped out at once.

On a day when heavy attrition felled most of the field's front-runners, including the overwhelmingly dominant Newman-Haas entry of Mario Andretti, Unser worked his way steadily forward and took the lead on the 183rd lap, after Roberto Guerrero's car stalled on his final pit stop.

Vertical pulldown is overwhelmingly the dominant axis of motion, although horizontal pulldown is used in IMAX, VistaVision ( still in use for some visual effects work ), and in consumer and professional still cameras.

It was perhaps quite difficult for Price Chopper to emerge as a successful convenience retailer with Stewart's Shops, based in Saratoga Springs, New York, already having such an overwhelmingly dominant position in the convenience store business throughout large portions of Price Chopper's market area.

During daytime when the sun is above the horizon direct scattering of sunlight ( Rayleigh scattering ) is the overwhelmingly dominant source of light.

Thanks to Hockenheim's long straights, the turbo-charged cars were overwhelmingly dominant in qualifying.

In some of these provinces ( Khartoum, Ash Shamali, Al Awsat ), they were overwhelmingly dominant.

* True Whig Party, also known as the " Liberian Whig Party ", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980

The Romans were heavily outnumbered and during the heat of battle a group of 600 horsemen on the right wing deserted, yet, taking full advantage of the limitations of the terrain, the Romans were overwhelmingly victorious.

The referendum election was held on this subject during the November 2, 2010 elections, and the people overwhelmingly voted ( 78 % to 22 %) to keep the original name.

Republicans had taken over the state governments in the South during Reconstruction, but were unpopular with the overwhelmingly Democratic white southerners, many of whom resented what they perceived as interference from the North and blamed the Republicans for the Civil War.

: This and several other similar examples effectively proved that Swadesh's formula would not work on all available material — a serious accusation considering that evidence that can be used to " calibrate " the meaning of L ( i. e. language history recorded during prolonged periods of time ) is not overwhelmingly large in the first place.

Construction of the store while overwhelmingly welcomed by the local population was temporarily halted in early 2007 after the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation refused access to the area in order to preserve nesting Bald Eagles during the Spring season.

Post-war inflation, rampant speculative investments ( overwhelmingly in railroads ), a large trade deficit, ripples from economic dislocation in Europe resulting from the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870-1871 ), significant property losses in Chicago ( 1871 ) and Boston ( 1872 ) fires, and other factors put a massive strain on bank reserves, which plummeted in New York City during September and October 1873 from $ 50 million to $ 17 million.

Many families during the time of the American Civil War had seen their men go off and never return, and images of the battlefield, produced through the new medium of photography, demonstrated that their loved ones had not only died in overwhelmingly huge numbers, but horribly as well.

The other community is overwhelmingly Protestant and are known as unionists or loyalists and are largely descended from Scottish and English settlers who arrived in Ulster during the Plantations of Ireland.

However, during this period the city lost its status as the capital of the region, with Split overwhelmingly surpassing Zadar in population numbers, which, though increasing throughout the 20th century, boomed in the new, post-WWII, Yugoslavia.

From 1880 to 1960 the Deep South overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party as a legacy of the rival Republican Party's record during Reconstruction.

A vote of the congregation overwhelmingly supported Young's proposal, said to have been caused by Brigham briefly yet miraculously having the " voice and countenance of Joseph Smith " during his talk.

The struggle of the Belgian army to hold on to its territory during the remainder of the war, and especially the experiences of ordinary Flemish foot soldiers, led to an increased Flemish national consciousness in the then overwhelmingly Francophone-dominated Belgian society.

However, evidence overwhelmingly suggests that such special treatment, justified by arguments about systemic risk, actually exacerbated systemic risk during the financial crisis and forced the government to bail out derivatives traders.

Following the end of martial law and readmission to the Union during Reconstruction, Georgia was overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party.

Expensive swords with long, straight, steel blades intended for slashing became, overwhelmingly, the preferred weapon of upper-class combatants during this period.

The officers declared the war to be illegal, asked for the restoration of the Finnish borders according to the Treaty of Nystad of 1721, and for peace negotiations with representatives of the Finnish nation, which they understood as representatives for the eastern and northern half of Sweden, which during the 18th century had twice had been harshly occupied, and whose population overwhelmingly were ethnic Finns.

After signing the document asking Soviet troops for assistance during the revolution on 24 October, the government and people overwhelmingly supported him handing power to Imre Nagy.

However Ben Adams, famed film critic for Times magazine during the late 1980s gave the film an overwhelmingly positive review, particularly the character depth brought to the film by Nicolas Cage.

Quaker Guns were also used to bolster numerous Confederate fortifications during the Siege of Petersburg and greatly assisted in lengthening the amount of time the Confederates were able to hold their positions against the overwhelmingly superior and overbearing Union troops.

The people overwhelmingly ratified the said Act on March 21, 1998 during a plebiscite conducted for the purpose.

He also won overwhelmingly over Reynaldo Muli, son of former Mayor Federico Muli, who challenged and his leadership during the 1980 elections.

During this period the public response to the CCC program was overwhelmingly popular.

The overwhelmingly large variety of Chinese cuisine comes mainly from the practice of dynastic period, when emperors would host banquets with 100 dishes per meal.

The club's most successful period was in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when they were led by managers Bojan Prašnikar, Ivo Šušak and Matjaž Kek and overwhelmingly dominated domestic football, winning seven successive league titles and three national cups.

Given the difficult economic circumstances of the Soviet peasantry in the late 1920s and 1930s, chastushki overwhelmingly took an anti-government form, with the singing of anti-Soviet couplets a common practice at peasant festivals of the period.

Before the early modern period most of the literature of the Swiss Confederation was either in Latin or German as until 1798 ponfederation was overwhelmingly German with only small pockets of French.

* The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period, especially in the female line, i. e. those people, who in time would become identified as British Celts ( culturally speaking ), but who ( genetically speaking ) should more properly be called Cro-Magnon.

Such a declaration is typically made when a person has been missing for an extended period of time and in the absence of any evidence that the person is still alive, or when the circumstances surrounding a person's disappearance overwhelmingly support the belief that the person has died ( e. g., an airplane crash ).

During this initial period, U. S. public opinion overwhelmingly supported the deployment.

While details have not been worked out, based on the vote of the principals, the membership would not favor forcing a team to forfeit in the event of a positive test, though the membership which voted overwhelmingly favored to support a period of ineligibility for athletes testing positive, and narrowly supported forcing schools to adopt education programs if an athlete tested positive.