Ten thousand twisty miles of shoreline frame the 30-odd lakes in the vast Tennessee River system that loops in and out of seven states.

At Athens some citizens were far more active than others, but the vast numbers required just for the system to work testify to a breadth of participation among those eligible that greatly surpassed any present day democracy.

The caves and bunkers were connected to a vast system throughout central Peleliu, which allowed the Japanese to evacuate or reoccupy positions as needed, and to take advantage of shrinking interior lines.

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.

However, today the IUPAC system of chemical nomenclature allows chemists to specify by name specific compounds amongst the vast variety of possible chemicals.

The vast system of Roman aqueducts also made extensive use of hydraulic cement.

This view was elaborated in traditional Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology, which depicts the cosmos as a vast, flat oceanic disk ( of the magnitude of a small planetary system ), bounded by mountains, in which the continents are set as small islands.

In a free market, the system of prices is the emergent result of a vast number of voluntary transactions, rather than of political decrees as in a controlled market.

The choice that OS system developers faced was either to start from scratch and create an OS that would not run the vast majority of the old programs or to come up with a version of DOS that was slow and ugly but still would run a majority of the old programs.

Charles Bernard Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought.

Therefore, he was able to hold knowledge across a vast array of subjects: " the international world order, the political and economic organisation of contemporary society, especially France, the institutional and legal frameworks that regulate the lives of ordinary citizens, the educational system, the media networks that control and disseminate information.

Within the centrally controlled structure of the Soviet system, Kazakhstan played a vital industrial and agricultural role ; the vast coal deposits discovered in Kazakhstani territory in the twentieth century promised to replace the depleted fuel reserves in the European territories of the union.

The vast territory of Kazakhstan, 2. 7 million km ², low population density, dissociation centers of industry and agriculture, and the remoteness from world markets, makes the possession of advanced transportation system vital for Kazakhstan.

Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.

A vast wired broadcasting system included over 2, 600 stations carrying radio transmissions into all rural units and many urban areas.

Although China's transport system comprises a vast network of transport nodes across its huge territory, the nodes tend to concentrate in the more economically developed coastal areas and inland cities along major rivers.

Plea bargaining is a significant part of the criminal justice system in the United States ; the vast majority ( roughly 90 %) of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than by a jury trial.

One design submitted by Wagner himself comprised an array of gleaming new buildings arranged around a vast multi-level system of fly-overs and underpasses, with a huge glass-roofed circular car-park in the middle.

Under such a system, intermediate appellate courts are entrusted with deciding the vast majority of appeals.

However, since the majority of hauling is done on the interstate system, the vast majority of trucks and trailers made in the U. S. are built to the specifications of the Department of Transportation ( DOT ), which governs the use of the interstate system.

In 1973 Venezuela voted to nationalize its oil industry outright, effective 1 Jan. 1976, with Petróleos de Venezuela ( PDVSA ) taking over and presiding over a number of holding companies ; in subsequent years, Venezuela built a vast refining and marketing system in the US and Europe.

Bush and Bill Clinton, stated that Arafat's " walking-around money " financed a vast patronage system known as neopatrimonialism.

The vast majority of the operating system kernel was rewritten in C leaving a handful of hardware-dependent parts in assembly language.

Marketed as a slightly more upscale competitor to the ubiquitous Ford Model T, it pioneered or made standard many features later taken for granted: all-steel body construction ( the vast majority of cars worldwide still used wood-framing under steel panels, though Stoneleigh and BSA used steel bodies as early as 1911 ); 12-volt electrical system ( 6-volt systems would remain the norm until the 1950s ); 35 horsepower ( versus the Model T's 20 ), and sliding-gear transmission ( the best-selling Model T would retain an antiquated planetary design until its demise in 1927 ).

Brazil, with its vast territory, was the major destination of African slaves, receiving 38. 5 % of all slaves sent by ships across the Atlantic Ocean.

The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to the colonies in North and South America.

The vast majority of the male Black slaves, estimated around 80 %, were castrated.

) He ordered the importation of Africans to work on his vast projects instead of their being traded to other Caribbean countries to be held as slaves.

Workers on the vast " haciendas " were often treated like slaves, being beaten for the slightest infraction — real or imagined — and murders of workers by their " masters " was not uncommon.

They claim that the organs are grown artificially in organ farms ; in reality, the vast majority of the organs are harvested from slaves.

Integral to the sugar economy was the importation of a vast number of African slaves ; more than 37 % of all slaves taken from Africa were sent to Brazil, mostly to be processed in Bahia before being sent to work in plantations elsewhere in the country.

At that time, the colony extended to the mountains in front of the vast central plateau, then called " Bushmansland ", and had an area of about 194, 000 square kilometres and a population of some 60, 000, of whom 27, 000 were white, 17, 000 free Khoikhoi, and the rest slaves.

Although the eccentric Randolph believed that the removal of free blacks would " materially tend to secure " slave property, the vast majority of early members were philanthropists, clergy and abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and provide them with the opportunity to " return " to Africa.

Hampton's father died in 1858 and the son inherited a vast fortune, the plantations, and one of the largest collections of slaves in the South.

The increasing importance of agriculture led to the importation of slaves and the undertaking of vast infrastructural works that transformed Port Louis into a major capital, port, warehousing and commercial centre.

As the small farms of the Roman peasantry were bought up by the wealthy and with their vast supply of slaves, the landless peasantry were forced to idle and squat around the city of Rome, relying greatly on handouts.

Some were abolitionists who sought to continue the struggle for racial equality ; they often became agents of the federal Freedmen's Bureau, which started operations in 1865 to assist the vast numbers of recently emancipated slaves.

Diseases inadvertently brought by the Spanish previously unknown to the native inhabitants wiped out the vast majority of the Taino Indians on the island ; the colonizers thus began importing massive numbers of African slaves to replace the natives.

He took vast amounts of plunder and slaves from this campaign.

The Spaniards undertook salvage operations for several years, with the help of Indian slaves, and they recovered nearly half of the registered part of the vast treasure from the holds of the Margarita, whose remains rested in water sufficiently shallow for breath-holding divers.

Granted large tracts of land by the British government to make up for what they lost in the American colonies, the Loyalists imported well over a thousand slaves and planted vast fields of sisal.

Beneath them are soldiers of the empire's vast army, merchants, and the peasantry, with slaves being the lowest rung on the social ladder.

Named “ Canebrake ” due to the vast amount of dense and thick canes along the riverbank, the land, as well as the twenty slaves he placed there, had an estimated cost of $ 24, 000.

He accumulated vast wealth during his stay in Querétaro, San Miguel and Nuevo Santander from the work of badly paid Indians and slaves, as well as large land grants from the viceroys.

Plebeians and freedmen held shop or manned stalls at markets while vast quantities of slaves did most of the hard work.

Nanny also helped these slaves remain free and healthy due to her vast knowledge of herbs and her role as a spiritual leader.

Gómez began an invasion of Western Cuba in 1875, but the vast majority of slaves and wealthy sugar producers in the region did not join the revolt.