" A 2011 report based on telephone surveys of American Catholics conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 56 % believe that sexual relations between two people of the same sex are not sinful.

In the early days of opinion polling, the American Literary Digest magazine collected over two million postal surveys and predicted that the Republican candidate in the U. S. presidential election, Alf Landon, would beat the incumbent president, Franklin Roosevelt by a large margin.

Space observatories can generally be divided into two classes: missions which map the entire sky ( surveys ), and observatories which make observations of chosen parts of the sky.

In 1820 – 1821, the federal land surveys had reached the disputed area from two directions, progressing southward from a baseline in Michigan and northward from one in Ohio.

For unknown reasons, Surveyor General Tiffin ordered the two surveys to close on the Northwest Ordinance ( Fulton ) line, rather than Harris ' line, perhaps lending implicit support to Michigan's claims over Ohio's.

From 1782 to 1802, and most intensively from 1783 to 1790, Herschel conducted systematic surveys in search of " deep sky " or nonstellar objects with two, and telescopes ( in combination with his favoured 6-inch aperture instrument ).

The two major surveys of the English census known as the Hundred Rolls were conducted.

* 1279 – The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1280.

* 1280 – The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is completed ; it began in 1279.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Alfred C. Kinsey published two surveys of modern sexual behaviour.

Researchers using a combination ground penetrating radar surveys and excavation of a area did not find any evidence of any burials at the supposed grave site, leading the archaeologists to conclude that Point du Sable's remains may not have been moved from one of the two previous cemeteries.

* A survey of royal privileges is conducted, which is included in the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086 ; the Hundred Rolls is later completed with two larger surveys in 1274 / 1275 and 1279 / 1280.

* The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is begun ; it lasts until 1280.

* The second of two main surveys of the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086, is completed ; it began in 1279.

The results of the surveys conducted simultaneously from several locations around the world ( for each of the two transits ) produced a final value of the solar parallax, after adjustments, of 8. 809 ", with a probable error of 0. 0059 ", yielding a U. S. defined Earth-Sun distance of, with a probable error of miles.

However, the authors of two surveys that asked about both defensive gun use and criminal gun use claimed that their results indicated that more people report being victims of gun crimes than have used a gun in self-defense.

The results of these two surveys were also directly contradicted by a much larger-scale national survey that did not suffer from these flaws in question wording </ ref > Kleck and Kates 2001, pp. 264 – 267 </ ref > Several further HICRC studies using data from surveys of detainees in prisons and interviews with prison physicians report that very few criminals are actually shot while committing crimes ( confirming the findings of Kleck and Gertz 1995 </ ref > Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 86 ( 1 ): 150-187, esp.

These two measures calculate the livability of countries and cities around the world, respectively, through a combination of subjective life-satisfaction surveys and objective determinants of quality of life such as divorce rates, safety, and infrastructure.

Roughly every two weeks, The Economist publishes special reports ( previously called surveys ) on a given topic.

When the business cycle is fairly stable, consumer demand surveys and consumer confidence and sentiment indices will often correlate closely and indicate the same direction of the economy, but in times with a high degree of economic or political uncertainty or during a prolonged crisis, the two types of consumer surveys might differ significantly.

Beginning at the point where the line between townships 24 and 25 of the surveys of the late Choctaw cession intersects the Mississippi River, and running thence up the said river to the point where the dividing line between the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians intersects the same ; thence with the dividing line to the point where the line between ranges two and three of the survey of the said Choctaw cession intersects the same ; thence with said range line, to the line between townships 24 and 25 aforesaid, and thence with the said township line to the beginning.

The first site is along the East Branch of the Black River where two adult beetles were found in surveys in 1989 and two more again in 1996.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.

But while the two men are riding into the country, where they are going to dinner, they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who strip them of everything, including most of their clothes.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.

Max, in a fit of despair, takes Alicia and runs off for two marvelous weeks in Burbank ( Fink calls it `` the most wonderful and lovely fourteen days in my whole life '' ), at the end of which Alicia tragically contracts Parkinson's disease and dies.

Harris has indicated that two devices, the Launder-Ometer and Terg-O-Tometer are most widely used for rapid detergent testing, and he has listed the commercially available standard soiled fabrics.

In most places, there are two generations a year, a second brood of adults appearing late in the summer.

Fourth, the two indicators are for the most part widely separated chronologically, with the extensive age gap occurring during childhood for all but one growth center.

The most active preparations obtained by these two groups of investigators appear to be similar in potency, composition and physical properties.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

This saved for state adjudication, in the first instance, the two major areas where federal injunctions had been most obnoxious, but other areas remained vulnerable.

`` most orthodontic work is done on children between the ages of 10 and 14, though there have been patients as young as two and as old as 55 '', says Dr. Brodie.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

Of the two cherished achievements the elderly Spahn's hitless pitching probably reached the most hearts.

Though the sales gains these two dealers are experiencing are above average for their business, farm equipment sales are climbing in most rural areas.

most pastors find that the fourth session should take at least two hours and therefore hold it on a week night prior to Reception Sunday.

The last program of this festival, which during two weeks had sampled most compositional categories, brought the Cologne Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester and Rundfunkchor to Bonn's gold-filled hall for a performance of the Missa Solemnis.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.