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.

There is a vast difference between the community of reconciliation which the New Testament describes and the community of congeniality found in the average church building.

New methodological breakthroughs in sequencing, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and imaging are producing vast amounts of information.

There was a vast amount of publicity around the film, with a critic for the New York Times calling it " the most eagerly awaited picture of the year ", and it was one of the biggest money-makers of the era.

To make up for the lack of officers, Kidd picked up replacement crew in New York, the vast majority of whom were known and hardened criminals, some undoubtedly former pirates.

In 18th and 19th century Germany, several thousand local languages of the continental west Germanic dialect continuum were reclassified as dialects of modern New High German although the vast majority of them were ( and still are ) mutually incomprehensible, despite the fact that they all existed long before New High German, which had at least in part been shaped as a compromise or mediative language between these local languages.

Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers.

This scramble coincided with a new era in global colonial expansion known as " the New Imperialism ," which saw a shift in focus from trade and indirect rule to formal colonial control of vast overseas territories ruled as political extensions of their mother countries.

The relatively narrow Louisiana of New Spain had been a special province under the jurisdiction of the Captaincy General of Cuba while the vast region to the west was in 1803 still considered part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas.

His chances of hitting his first ball for six on the vast MCG were apparently nil and even if he did manage to get it over the fence New Zealand would not win but only draw the game.

Philip had a son from a previous marriage, and was heir apparent to vast territories in Continental Europe and the New World.

In 1755, the vast majority of the French population ( the Acadians ) were expelled and replaced by New England Planters who arrived between 1759-1768.

It sailed vast areas of the Pacific, from Cape Horn to Alaska, Guam and the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific.

The historic RCA Building 17 is one of the few remaining buildings in Camden, New Jersey, that once housed the vast RCA Victor complex. The Nipper stained glass atop the " Nipper Tower " in the former Building 17.

Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer who began his career with John W, Campbell in Astounding magazine in the 1940s, said of the New Wave: " I hope that when the New Wave has deposited its froth and receded, the vast and solid shore of science fiction will appear once more.

Toumey ( 1993 ) found that secular humanism is typically portrayed as a vast evil conspiracy, deceitful and immoral, responsible for feminism, pornography, abortion, homosexuality, and New Age spirituality.

In New York, however, George Clinton won the election for governor and used the vast state patronage fund to help the Republican cause.

However, the vast majority of Americans did not live in New York City, and the decision-makers who did live there probably relied more on staid newspapers like the Times, The Sun, or the Post.

From September 1755 to June 1763 the vast majority of Acadians are deported to one of the following British Colonies in America: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia.

The two New World cotton species account for the vast majority of modern cotton production, but the two Old World species were widely used before the 1900s.

Among the works exhibited were Le Fauconnier's vast composition Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours ( Mountaineers Attacked by Bears ) now at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Joseph Csaky's Deux Femme, Two Women ( a sculpture now lost ), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, Amorpha ( The National Gallery, Prague ), and Picabia, La Source, The Spring ( Museum of Modern Art, New York ).

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.

Although a few towns with New York land titles, notably Brattleboro on the Connecticut River, supported the change, the vast majority of the settlers in the sparsely populated frontier region rejected the authority of New York.