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.

The vast majority of inhabitants were converted to Hanifism, while the Balkar-HunOghuz brought the beginnings of the Turkic Turkmen language that came to dominate the area.

The narrator discovers that the vast grey town and its ghostly inhabitants are minuscule to the point of being invisible compared with the immensity of heaven and reality.

The two million Portuguese people ruled a vast empire with many millions of inhabitants in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Agriculture employs more than 70 % of the labour force and provides livelihoods to the vast majority of about 20 million inhabitants, contributing more than 70 % to export earnings, mostly through the export of seafood ( mainly shrimps ), vanilla, coffee, cacao, litchi, pepper, cotton, tobacco, groundnut, sisal, clove and ylang-ylang.

Agriculture employs more than 80 percent of the labour force and provides livelihoods to the vast majority of over 23 million inhabitants.

Later, Blade learns that Elexis Sinclaire's main goal is to poison the Freeport water system with vast quantities of U4, turning all of the city's inhabitants into mutants.

" " It was government policy to encourage squatters to take possession of whatever land they chose ,.... that largely explains why almost all the original inhabitants of Port Phillip's vast grasslands were dead so soon after 1835 ".

At the centre of the earldom is the vast, largely deserted Castle, whose remaining inhabitants centre their lives on the ritual surrounding the ruling family of Groan.

While the vast majority of Hammarö's inhabitants live in a single urban area going by the Statistics Sweden designation of Skoghall, this urban area is split in two postal areas: Skoghall ( western part ) and Hammarö ( eastern part ).

The American Revolution dramatically changed the political and built environments of New England, and consequentially, many inhabitants desired vast and affordable land in the western lands of Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1728 by the same act of the Virginia Assembly that established neighboring Fredericksburg, Falmouth was created as a port town on the Rappahannock to serve inhabitants living north of the river within the vast Northern Neck holdings of Lord Fairfax.

Outside Greece and Italy, which were more densely populated, the vast majority of settlements in the Iron Age were small, with perhaps no more than 50 inhabitants.

His official duties obliged him to investigate personally a very extensive range of territory, so that he acquired a practical knowledge of the vast province, and of its aboriginal inhabitants.

After many adventures, Uncle eventually tracks down the treasure, an unimaginably vast block of softly glowing gold ( or dlog, as they code-name it ), beats off a final attack from the Badfort Crowd, and enjoys the acclaim of the grateful inhabitants of Homeward when he decides to distribute the gold for the common good.

In Lisbon, in Avenida da Liberdade, there are the Marchas, a parade of folklore and costumes of the inhabitants from the city's different traditional quarters, with hundreds of singers and dancers and a vast audience applauding their favorite participants.

Of the more than 5, 500 municipalities in the country, Minas has 853 of them, a fact explained by the number of inhabitants and by the vast territory ( larger than Metropolitan France ).

In Irish origin legends, Míl Espáine or Míl Espáne ( later pseudo-Latinised as Milesius ; also Miled / Miledh ) is the ancestor of the final inhabitants of Ireland, the " sons of Míl " or Milesians, who represent the vast majority of the Irish Gaels.

The vast majority of the region's inhabitants are migrants from Cebu and Bohol.

Davao del Sur is an ethnic mix of Mindanaoans, Visayans, Tagalogs, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish with a number of indigenous tribes scattered in more than 2, 300, 000 inhabitants spread across a vast 244, 000-hectare land.

The inhabitants of Alpha were unwilling travelers, and represented present-day Earthmen cast adrift in a vast, unexplainable universe where Earth-bound logic and laws of nature no longer operated.

According to several specialists in the topic, it has evolved and acquired a character of gentile for the vast majority of inhabitants of the South American country.

A vast tract of land was deserted and perhaps 200, 000 inhabitants of the neighbouring districts of the lines were relocated inside the lines.

The vast majority of the inhabitants of the United States are immigrants or descendents of immigrants.

Brownhills quickly grew around the coal mining industry, especially after it became linked to the canal and railway networks in the mid-19th century, and by the end of the century had grown from a hamlet of only 300 inhabitants to a town with a population of over, of whom the vast majority were employed in the coal industry.