The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.

Contrarily, Republican `` volunteers '' go their separate ways, and thus far have given no indication that they'd be willing to join forces under a single directorate, except in the most loose-knit fashion.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

Proponents of single elements tend to ensure predominance of that element without determining if it is justified, and the element with the most enthusiastic and vociferous proponents has assumed the greatest importance.

A most attractive feature is that detection and attack are combined in a single package.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Unlike pure metals, most alloys do not have a single melting point, but a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

Contains the most famous single account of Alfonso in the English language.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

Armour was the single most influential factor in the development of firearms that revolutionised warfare.

Lipostraca contains a single species, Lepidocaris rhyniensis, which is the most abundant animal in the Rhynie chert desposits.

In most cases in the professional game, no-hitters are accomplished by a single pitcher who throws a complete game.

Ty Cobb holds the records for most steals of home in a single season ( 8 ) as well as for a career ( 54 ).

Jimmy Rollins holds the single season record for most plate appearances, at 778.

In byte-oriented systems ( i. e. most modern computers ), the term uncompressed BCD usually implies a full byte for each digit ( often including a sign ), whereas packed BCD typically encodes two decimal digits within a single byte by taking advantage of the fact that four bits are enough to represent the range 0 to 9.

The Heralds four Pulitzer Prizes for editorial writing, in 1924, 1927, 1949 and 1954, are among the most awarded to a single newspaper in the category.

Organisms can be classified as unicellular ( consisting of a single cell ; including most bacteria ) or multicellular ( including plants and animals ).

Certainly the most positive event of the 2011 season for the Orioles, was their involvement in the events that took place on September 28, when they defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-3 thanks to 9th inning heroics by both Nolan Reimold, and Robert Andino leading to a walk-off win on an Andino RBI single, and prevented them from earning the Wild Card berth.

Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.

* Lara holds the world record of scoring most runs in a single over ( 28 runs against left-arm spinner RJ Peterson of South Africa ) in Test cricket.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

Cascading of single stages, enclosed in one common envelope.

Cascaded single stages enclosed by a common envelope have been constructed with high gain and high resolution.

Algae constitute a paraphyletic and polyphyletic group, as they do not include all the descendants of the last universal ancestor nor do they all descend from a common algal ancestor, although their plastids seem to have a single origin.

Instead of using RS-422's balanced transmit and receive circuits, the AppleTalk Personal Network cabling used a single common electrical ground, which limited speeds to about 500 kbit / s, but allowed one conductor to be removed.

In academic use, an arbitrage involves taking advantage of differences in price of a single asset or identical cash-flows ; in common use, it is also used to refer to differences between similar assets ( relative value or convergence trades ), as in merger arbitrage.

The integration treaties contained commitments to monetary union, equal rights, single citizenship, and a common defence and foreign policy.

These birds are generally solitary or found in pairs early in the year, but family groups are common in the late summer and winter roosts may have two dozen or more birds in a single covey.

Finally, some archaeologists consider broch sites individually, doubting that there ever was a single common purpose for which every broch was constructed.

In the most common usage, β strand refers to a single continuous stretch of amino acids adopting an extended conformation and involved in backbone hydrogen bonds to at least one other strand ; by contrast, a β sheet refers to an assembly of at least two such β strands that are hydrogen-bonded ( or H-bonded ) to each other.

A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

( Codification is the process of enacting a statute that collects and restates pre-existing law in a single document — when that pre-existing law is common law, the common law remains relevant to the interpretation of these statutes.

The theory asserts that all currently living organisms on Earth share a common genetic heritage with each being the descendant from a single original species, though the suggestion of substantial horizontal gene transfer during early evolution has led to questions about monophyly of life.

In Ireland, coalition governments are quite common with a single party not having ruled since 1977.

The most common letters do not necessarily require chording as is the case with the GKOS keyboard optimised layouts ( Android app ) where the twelve most frequent characters only require single keys.

A common variant is the " business card " CD, a single with portions removed at the top and bottom making the disk resemble a business card.

W. S. Ferguson suggested that Artemis Soteira and Artemis Kalliste were joined in a common cult administered by a single priest.

* A single committee known as a board of directors is the method favored in most common law countries.

In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal development of a single language over time.

* Provide a single common data model for all data of interest regardless of the data's source.

Hazards are routinely divided into natural or human-made, although complex disasters, where there is no single root cause, are more common in developing countries.

A key is a single, or set of multiple, attribute ( s ) that is common to both tables.

Neither Charles Darwin nor anyone else in his time knew the answer to the species problem: how multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor.