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.

More geographically correct were Icelandic texts from about the same time, which presented a clear picture of the northern countries as experienced by Norse explorers: north of Iceland a vast, barren plain ( which we now know to be the Polar ice-cap ) extended from Biarmeland ( northern Russia ) east of the White Sea, to Greenland, then further west and south were, in succession, Helluland, Markland and Vinland.

Although the vast majority of marquessates are named after places, and hence their holders are known as the " Marquess of X ", a very few of them are named after surnames ( even if not the bearer's own ), and hence their holders are known as the " Marquess X ".

The vast majority of Filipinos have Spanish, Basque, and Galician surnames, but such surnames does not indicate Iberian ancestry.

In time, cable television was widely established to carry available Canadian stations as well as import American stations, which constituted the vast majority of signals on systems ( usually only one or two Canadian stations, while some systems had duplicate or even triplicate coverage of American networks ).

Particularly in Europe, the vast majority of clubs do not offer caddies, and amateur players will commonly carry their own bags.

To the east, big rivers carry silt from the mountains, forming the vast lowland interspersed by swamps.

A single parasite species usually has an aggregated distribution across host individuals, which means that most hosts harbor few parasites, while a few hosts carry the vast majority of parasite individuals.

The vast amount of money required just to increase the amount of prosection demonstrates that it is no longer possible to carry out dissection at Birmingham ( and is the case for many other universities ).

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.

Because it has been extremely difficult to carry out DSP operations ( for example performing EQ, balance, panning and other changes in the digital domain ) in a 1-bit environment, and because of the prevalence of studio equipment such as Pro Tools, which is solely PCM-based, the vast majority of SACDs — especially rock and contemporary music which relies on multitrack techniques — are in fact mixed in PCM ( or mixed analog and recorded on PCM recorders ) and then converted to DSD for SACD mastering.

Unlike police in other developed countries, the vast majority of British police officers do not carry firearms on standard patrol ; they do however carry Extendable " Asp " or fixed Monadnock PR-24 batons and CS / PAVA spray.

The vast majority of ATC's issued are to employees of armoured car companies to allow carry of a company owned firearm only while working.

In its website FAQs, Five's stated reason for its use of a DOG is that " the vast majority of channels carry them, most permanently and virtually every channel at some point has one during the day.

The high, raked masts and long bowsprits and booms favoured in Bermuda allowed its vessels of all sizes to carry vast areas of sail when running down-wind with spinnakers and multiple jibs, allowing great speeds to be reached.

The vast load-bearing masonry walls support the steel beams that carry its roof.

He was a man of unwearied industry and immense learning, but he lacked the persistency to carry out the vast literary schemes he had planned.

One could carry a vast number of books in a small case for when one travelled.

The stores carry a variety of goods ; but the vast majority of space is devoted to groceries and about a third of each store is set aside for electronics, housewares, and clothing.

Its purpose was to carry limestone from the vast quarries around Dove Holes down to Bugsworth Basin via Chapel-en-le-Frith and Chinley, where much of it was taken by boat along the Peak Forest Canal and the Ashton Canal to Manchester and beyond.

The vast majority of television shows that carry this rating are on cable and satellite TV ; network television rarely airs any programming that would warrant such a rating, due to Federal Communications Commission indecency and obscenity guidelines that prevent most of this type of programming from airing on broadcast television.

Collectively, they carry the vast majority of the blood.

The study of our National House of Representatives will occasion pause in our judgment, for to the superficial view, it will seem that the few are carrying upon their shoulders the whole burden of the Government, whereas the vast work of our Congress is performed by the quiet and often obscure members, who do not rush into print, and who keep out of the public eye, but with rare ability and conscientious purpose carry forward the vast interests of this greatest business corporation in the world, the United States of America.

They carry the vast majority of NASCAR radio broadcasts during the year.