For all concerned with social-welfare legislation, the significance of this radical and revolutionary change in the thought and habits of the vast majority of the American people is clear, profound and far-reaching.

Debierne, who is now considered by the vast majority of historians as the discoverer, lost interest in the element and left the topic.

The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.

This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.

Wesley thoroughly agreed with the vast majority of what Arminius himself taught, maintaining strong doctrines of original sin, total depravity, conditional election, prevenient grace, unlimited atonement, and possibly apostasy.

The vast majority of his Khoja Ismaili followers in India welcomed him warmly, but some dissident members, sensing their loss of prestige with the arrival of the Imam, wished to maintain control over communal properties.

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

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.

Artillery is the most lethal form of land-based armament ; in the Napoleonic Wars, World War I and World War II the vast majority of combat deaths were caused by artillery.

" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

His superior command of Greek, and the fact that the vast majority of his writings were in Greek, led some in the West to claim that he was a Greek born in Alexandria.

A paradox in metabolism is that, while the vast majority of complex life on Earth requires oxygen for its existence, oxygen is a highly reactive molecule that damages living organisms by producing reactive oxygen species.

The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life.

They are responsible for the vast majority of published standards and specifications.

" However, the vast majority of evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and paleontologists completely dismiss the possibility of the existence of sasquatch.

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.

Thus, a robust surveillance system involving human clinicians and veterinarians may identify a bioweapons attack early in the course of an epidemic, permitting the prophylaxis of disease in the vast majority of people ( and / or animals ) exposed but not yet ill.

Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

There are three " parts " of the act under which the vast majority of " acts of bankruptcy " fall.

: Consumer estates were the vast majority, with 122 999 estates.

The vast majority of companies covered by the Act have hired internal auditors to ensure that the company adheres to required standards of internal control.

As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).

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.

From Griffith, The Kidman Way heads north 366 km through the vast, open western plains to Cobar.

They are part of an unfinished set of lyrical nature poems known as the " Hymns of the Marshes ", which describe the vast, open salt marshes of Glynn County on the coast of Georgia.

Although we seemed to have little in common — I was a redneck from Aragon, and he an elegant Andalusian — we spent most of our time together ... We used to sit on the grass in the evenings behind the Residencia ( at that time, there were vast open spaces reaching to the horizon ), and he would read me his poems.

Other than his Latin motets of a religious nature and some poems invoking the horrors of war and captivity, the vast majority of Machaut's lyric poems partake of the conventions of courtly love and involve statements of service to a lady and the poet's pleasure and pains.

In 1980 fine shi poems by the famed Qing novelist Liu E were published for the first time, illustrating the potential to continue finding sunken treasure in the vast body of surviving Qing poetry.

Most of the great Angkor ruins have vast displays of bas-relief depicting the various gods, goddesses, and other-worldly beings from the mythological stories and epic poems of ancient Hinduism ( modified by centuries of Buddhism ).

The four signed poems of Cynewulf are vast in that they collectively comprise several thousand lines of verse.

His other writings ( a vast assortment of stories, miniatures, plays, poems, and pseudo-scientific, philosophical investigations ) were virtually unknown until 1970's, and not published officially in Russia until " glasnost ".

The vast majority of his works were written in the Polish language, however, he also wrote several poems in Belorussian.

* Od zlata jabuka ( Apple of Gold ), a collection of folk poems, tales, proverbs, riddles, and curses selected from the vast body of Yugoslav folk literature, 1958

His compositions include the four symphonic poems and three orchestral songs making up Livre de la jungle after Rudyard Kipling ; many other symphonic poems including Le Buisson Ardent after Romain Rolland ( this is a diptych of two orchestral poems, performable separately ) and Le Docteur Fabricius after a novel by his uncle Charles Dollfus ; three string quartets ; five symphonies including a Seven Stars Symphony inspired by Hollywood ; sonatas for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola and cello, and much other chamber music ; many songs, over two hundred opus numbers in all ; and a vast number of monodies, fugal studies, chorale harmonizations and other educational pieces.

His vast writing work includes textbooks of legal theory, surveys on philosophy and history, as well as literary works, poems, essays and translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics.

His enthusiasm for the project was transmitted to the publishers ; they collected a sufficient capital for a more vast enterprise than they had first planned.

In the days of the First Hebitian Civilization, the Cardassians collected works of art from all over the Alpha Quadrant and the planet boasted a vast wealth of art and culture ; the people were said to have elaborate burial vaults with unimaginable treasures.

The vast information Durkheim studied on the aboriginal tribes of Australia and New Guinea and on the Inuit was all collected by other anthropologists, travelers, or missionaries.

This monastery collected vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of anonymous people's repentances, leaving the donations on the monastery's premise.

To this end, a vast quantity of bridging material was collected, along with 2, 300 vehicles to carry it and 9, 000 engineers to assemble it.

The vast majority of the 1st editions were collected and destroyed.

The Imperial Crown Jewels of Iran ( alternatively known as the Imperial Crown Jewels of Persia ) includes several elaborate Crowns and decorative Thrones, 30 tiaras and numerous aigrettes, a dozen jewel laden swords and shields, a vast amount of precious unset gemstones, numerous plates and other dining services cast in precious metals and encrusted with gems and several other more unique items, such as a gemstone globe, collected by the Iranian monarchy during its 2, 500 year existence.

Forty-four nations participated, and a vast amount of data was collected.

The following excerpts from Lewis Morgan's " Ancient Society " will explain the use of the terms: " In a work of vast research, Bachofen has collected and discussed the evidence of female authority, mother-right, and of female rule, gynecocracy.

During the whole of this time no tribute was paid to the khan, Olug Moxammat, though vast sums of money were collected in the Moscow treasury for military purposes.

He produced, however, during his life a vast number of separate publications, some of them mere pamphlets or broadsheets, which from time to time he collected, often striking out others at the same time, in the successive editions of his works.

This monastery collected vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of anonymous rich people's repentances, leaving the donations on the premises without providing their name.

In detail, the work relates how the king of Egypt, presumably Ptolemy II Philadephus, is urged by his chief librarian Demetrios of Phaleron to translate the Hebrew Law into Greek, and so add the knowledge of the Hebrews to the vast collection of books the empire had already collected.

Another was the appointment of his Syrian friend and crony Ydlibi to the position of Nagadras ( Customs-Master ) at the railway depot at Dire Dawa, thus controlling the vast tariff and customs that were collected there.

The plant was once abundant in the UK, particularly in the Thames Valley and parts of Wiltshire, and was collected in vast quantities to be sold as a cut flower in the markets of London, Oxford and Birmingham.

* In C. S. Lewis ' Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ), the " canals " ( handramit in Martian ) are actually vast rifts in the surface of an almost airless, desert Mars, in which the only breathable atmosphere and water have collected where life is possible, with the rest of Mars being entirely dead.

So too Hitler " collected " works of art from all conquered territories for eventual exhibition in the vast gallery that was to have been built in Linz.

A vast espionage system collected intelligence for both internal and external security purposes.

His, views are colored by strong religious and political prejudice, and by a moralizing tendency, and his historical work has little critical value and is for the most part pure book-making, although he collected a vast amount of material which has been of use to other writers.

Because of this, the vast majority of information about his life and reign comes from collected pieces of oral tradition and stories that were passed down in various areas of China, many of which were collected in Sima Qian's famous Records of the Grand Historian.

A vice-county provides a stable basis for recording using similarly-sized units, and, although grid-based reporting has grown in popularity, vice-counties remain a standard in the vast majority of ecological surveys, allowing data collected over long periods of time to be compared easily.

The officer had a vast network and supporting field staff through whom he collected all the information about Mahavira and reported to the king.

He served as a contributing editor for Sentry Publications ' twin magazine titles Wings and Airpower, drawing on a lifetime of aviation photographs of his own, and of a vast archive collected through his employment at Boeing.