This worked to an extent, seeing that a large proportion of settlers were in fact Dutch and British natives fleeing religious prosecution.

William Traylen MP argued that " as our revenue is growing up now, and the natives can scarcely be said to be increasing in numbers, we shall be paying a very undue proportion of our income as a colony for the purpose of supporting the Aboriginal native race ".

In his report from the trip, Mr. Thornton stated that the coal, which was dug by natives from an outcropping seam on the bank of the River Muntizi, showed no tendency to cake ; was free-burning ; contained very little sulphur or iron although a large proportion of ash along with a small amount of gaseous matter

According to a 2010 census conducted by the Sociology Department of Tehran University in many districts of Tehran across various socio-economic classes in proportion to population sizes of each district and socio-economic class, 63 % of people in Tehran were born in Tehran, 98 % know Persian, 67 % identify themselves as ethnic Persian, and 13 % have some degree of proficiency in a European language.

It has been suggested by these countries that the Caspian Sea should be divided in proportion to each bordering country's shoreline, in which case Iran's share would be reduced to about 13 %.

For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose.

The results showed that pSTC activity rose in proportion to a person's self-reported level of altruism.

From 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history rose from 31 % to 41 %, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40 % to 30 %.

Nineteenth century industrialisation did not affect the traditional urban infrastructure, except in Ghent (...) Also, in Wallonia the traditional urban network was largely unaffected by the industrialisation process, even though the proportion of city-dwellers rose from 17 to 45 per cent between 1831 and 1910.

The proportion of the active population in this last sector rose from 18 percent in 1907 to 31 percent in 1935.

Overall, public expenditure on education rose as a proportion of GNP from 4. 8 % in 1964 to 5. 9 % in 1968, and the number of teachers in training increased by more than a third between 1964 and 1967.

The proportion of council housing rose from 42 % to 50 % of the total, while the number of council homes built increased steadily, from 119, 000 in 1964 to 133, 000 in 1965 and to 142, 000 in 1966.

The proportion of GNP spent on the NHS rose from 4. 2 % in 1964 to about 5 % in 1969.

The global proportion of urban population rose dramatically from 13 % ( 220 million ) in 1900, to 29 % ( 732 million ) in 1950, to 49 % ( 3. 2 billion ) in 2005.

A March 2001 poll conducted by the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita found that one-half of Poles were aware of the Jedwabne massacre ; among Poles with a higher education the proportion rose to 81 percent.

The social reforms introduced by Frei ’ s government led to a huge increase in public expenditure, which rose as a proportion of GNP from 35. 7 % in 1965 to 46. 9 % in 1970.

The number of hospitals ( and beds ) doubled under the PDC, and spending on education as a proportion of public expenditure rose from one-seventh to one-fifth.

The proportion of council housing rose from 42 % to 50 % of the nation's housing total, while the number of council homes built increased steadily, from 119, 000 in 1964 to 133, 000 in 1965 and to 142, 000 in 1966.

In the late 2000s, with auto manufacturers making efforts to reduce emissions ; and increase fuel efficiency due to the high price of oil and the economic recession, the proportion of new vehicles sold in the U. S. with four-cylinder engines ( largely of the inline-four type ) rose from 30 percent to 47 percent between 2005 and 2008, particularly in mid-size vehicles where a decreasing number of buyers have chosen the V6 performance option.

In two decades from 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history rose from 31 % to 41 %, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40 % to 30 %.

In the two decades from 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history rose from 31 % to 41 %, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40 % to 30 %.

In practice, they increasingly were not qualified, as the proportion in the quorum rose faster than proportion who were called to the bar or practising lawyers.

In Somerset the proportion rose from 52 % in 1562 to 93 % in 1636.

However, over the latter part of the 20th century the proportion of Catholics ( 40 % ) rose, in large part due to immigration from Southern Europe, and now they outnumber Protestants ( 17 % ) in the canton.

The proportion of commoners rose from 19-43. 8 % ( the rest were priests ' sons ).

) of Celtic art forms and a considerable proportion of the Celtic population, reject any institutional legacy from pre-Anglo-Saxon Britain.

Significantly, the initiation and leadership of a major proportion of the reform movements, especially those in the first half of the nineteenth century, came from men and women of New England birth or parentage and from either Trinitarian or Unitarian Congregationalism.

A wheel of cheese from the Emmental in Switzerland can weigh up to 100 pounds, and owners of the cows traditionally receive from the cheesemakers a portion in relation to the proportion of the cow's milk from the summer months in the high alps.

Baltic amber yields on dry distillation succinic acid, the proportion varying from about 3 % to 8 %, and being greatest in the pale opaque or bony varieties.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

More technically, the law is concerned with the speedup achievable from an improvement to a computation that affects a proportion P of that computation where the improvement has a speedup of S. ( For example, if an improvement can speed up 30 % of the computation, P will be 0. 3 ; if the improvement makes the portion affected twice as fast, S will be 2.

In the case of parallelization, Amdahl's law states that if P is the proportion of a program that can be made parallel ( i. e., benefit from parallelization ), and ( 1 − P ) is the proportion that cannot be parallelized ( remains serial ), then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using N processors is

The Venetian artist Jacopo de ' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.

A planned joint hydroelectric project with neighboring Togo is intended to reduce Benin's dependence on imported energy mostly from Ghana, which currently accounts for a significant proportion of the country's imports.

A high proportion of the collection comes from tombs or contexts associated with the cult of the dead, and it is these pieces, in particular the mummies, that remain among the most eagerly sought after exhibits by visitors to the Museum.

Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.

When two places trade with one another, this doctrine supposes that, if the balance be even, neither of them either loses or gains ; but if it leans in any degree to one side, that one of them loses and the other gains in proportion to its declension from the exact equilibrium.

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

However, research using an artificial gut has shown that in the specific case of carotenoids a greater proportion is absorbed from cooked vegetables than from raw vegetables.

In Europe, grilled meat and smoked fish generally only contribute a small proportion of dietary PAH intake since they are a minor component of diet – most intake comes from cereals, oils and fats.

" With total world emissions from fossil fuels growing rapidly, the proportion of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by the oceans since 2000 may have declined by as much as 10 %, indicating that over time the ocean will become " a less efficient sink of manmade carbon.

Traditional plant photosynthesis has terraformed the atmosphere by sequestering carbon from carbon dioxide, increasing the proportion of molecular oxygen, and by participating in the nitrogen cycle.

This court decision resulted from a complaint by the Government of Prince Edward Island after that province's number of MPs was proposed to change from 4 to 3, accounting for its declining proportion of the national population at that time.