But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

What the American people will do turns in large degree on their leadership.

Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.

the attitude adopted by realtors and their associations, either negative or positive, plays a large part in the public acceptance of such measures and the degree to which they may be effectively enforced.

The job at Funk wasn't particularly better, but it got him away from being subordinate to John and assured him steady advancement, since Funk was owned to a large degree by various branches of Linda's family.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

The largest of these contingents was that of the Goths, who in 382, had been allowed to settle within the imperial boundaries, keeping a large degree of autonomy.

The custom chipset at the core of the Amiga design appeared in three distinct generations, with a large degree of backward-compatibility.

Weaponry varies by a very wide degree between AFVs-lighter vehicles for infantry carrying, reconnaissance or specialist roles may have only a machine gun for self-defence ( or no armament at all ), whereas heavy self propelled artillery will carry large guns, mortars or rocket launchers.

There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages — especially in written form.

The area of study examines issues such as how each major form of business entity may be formed, operated, and dissolved ; the degree to which limited liability protects investors ; the extent to which a business can be held liable for the acts of an agent of the business ; the relative advantages and disadvantages of different types of business organizations, and the structures established by governments to monitor the buying and selling of ownership interests in large corporations.

Parliament had, to a large degree, encouraged the radical political groups which emerged when the usual social controls broke down during the English Civil War.

This is how scientific theories reach high confidence – over time, they build up a large degree of evidence which converges on the same conclusion.

The island was protected to a large degree by its favourable ocean topography.

In an effort to standardize doctoral degree conferral at these large research institutions, the Ph. D. has replaced and grandfathered the Sc. D.

In the United States, most forests have historically been affected by humans to some degree, though in recent years improved forestry practices has helped regulate or moderate large scale or severe impacts.

The establishment of Georgian architecture, and the Georgian styles of design more generally, were to a large degree aided by the fact that, unlike earlier styles which were primarily disseminated among craftsmen through the direct experience of the apprenticeship system, Georgian was also spread through the new medium of inexpensive suites of engravings.

Hillforts were known since the Late Bronze Age, but a huge number were constructed in the period 600-400 BCE, particularly in the South ; after about 400 however new ones largely cease to be built and a large number cease to be regularly inhabited, while a smaller number of others become more and more intensively occupied, suggesting a degree of regional centralisation.

Studies have suggested that the earliest hominins were dimorphic and that this lessened over the course of the evolution of the genus Homo, correlating with humans becoming more monogamous, whereas gorillas, who live in harems, show a large degree of sexual dimorphism.

A large black hardcover, it was critically well received and attained a degree of commercial success.

In this regard, the IRA acted to a large degree as an agent of social control and stability, driven by the need to preserve cross-class unity in the national struggle, and on occasion being used to break strikes.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

The physiography of Latvia and its neighboring areas was formed, to a large degree, during the Quaternary period and the Pleistocene ice age, when soil and debris were pushed by glaciers into mounds and hills.

Also there is observed evidence that the large, star-forming clouds are confined to a large degree by their own gravity ( like stars, planets, and galaxies ) rather than external pressure ( like clouds in the sky ).

Dods, Grimes and other electrobiologists worked with large crowds of people and produced in their subjects the symptoms and behaviours that would later become the main spectacles of stage hypnosis: catalepsy, insensitivity to pain, amnesia and apparently involuntary actions out of character for the individuals who produced them.

She was additionally supposed to have a large scar on her back caused by Cloud, and partial amnesia from the incident when she had received it.

For example, the main character, simply named " Hero ", has large, blonde, spiky hair and amnesia, and wields an oversized sword — traits that are shared with the main protagonist of Final Fantasy VII, Cloud Strife.

The Z-drugs are not without disadvantages, and all three compounds are notable for producing side effects such as pronounced amnesia and more rarely hallucinations, especially when used in large doses.

Because of their thin skulls and large brain volume, Pixies were susceptible to various maladies such as catatonia, amnesia and narcolepsy.

Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.

His large house ( purchased in 1509 from the heirs of the astronomer Bernhard Walther ), where his workshop was located and where his widow lived until her death in 1539, remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

Their excavation has uncovered the remains of a large stadium dating to about 100 BC.

The gleaming expanse of ice is similar to the Arctic, with wind-driven pack ice and ridges up to 15 m. Offshore of the landfast ice, the ice remains very dynamic all year, and it is relatively easily moved around by winds and therefore forms pack ice, made up of large piles and ridges pushed against the landfast ice and shores.

A large crypt houses the remains of some of the earlier Prussian royal family.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

There remains a large number of Unamended Christadelphians, particularly in the US and Canada.

In the new system of European routes, it was planned to have been a part of E 55, but it remains in the pre-1992 designation ( E 4 ) within Sweden, because the expenses connected with re-signing this long road portion would be too large.

Fullerene purification remains a challenge to chemists and to a large extent determines fullerene prices.

This has supported a sharp decline in extreme poverty ; yet because of high income inequality a large proportion of the population remains poor.

The largest of those airports, Bluie West Eight, now renamed Kangerlussuaq Airport, remains the international hub for travel to Greenland, as it is the only airport that has a large enough runway to service jumbo jets.

The impact of Visigothic rule was not widely felt on society at large, and certainly not compared to the vast bureaucracy of the Roman Empire ; they tended to rule as barbarians of a mild sort, uninterested in the events of the nation and economy, working for personal benefit, and little literature remains to us from the period.

This large return of Afghans may have helped the nation's economy but the country still remains one of the poorest in the world due to the decades of war, lack of foreign investment, ongoing government corruption and the Pakistani-backed Taliban insurgency.

In 1897 the foundation stone was laid of a large concrete structure, but there was insufficient money to complete the work and the " Harbour arm " remains uncompleted.

The large number of coaching inns is, in turn, one reason why the City has so many pubs today ( another being that it was, and remains, a major centre for Christian pilgrimage ).

Although reduced, its range remains large ; given its historical distribution, the jaguar has featured prominently in the mythology of numerous indigenous American cultures, including that of the Maya and Aztec.

An important consequence of the KAM theorem is that for a large set of initial conditions the motion remains perpetually quasiperiodic.

The remains covered a large time frame.

Beulé described the hippodrome and surrounding area, including large stones that he assumed formed had formed the seats of the judges and magistrates, and the remains of a building he called a temple to Pan, but which probably corresponds to the stoa of the modern excavations.

Malpighiales and Lamiales are the two large orders whose phylogeny remains mostly unresolved.

Despite extensive research into the interaction of modafinil with a large number of neurotransmitter systems, a precise mechanism or set of mechanisms of action remains unclear.

Today, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus " Prophet Jonah ", and the remains of the city walls ( about in circumference ).

During this time, enrollment at the small state school swelled ( due in large part to the opening in 1957 of the Mackinac Bridge, linking the Upper and Lower Peninsulas to vehicle traffic ) and as a result, the campus expanded rapidly, roughly to the size it remains to this day.

It has now disappeared from large parts of this range, and it only remains in 6 of the 18 countries where it originally occurred, leading some to consider it Critically Endangered.