And this, in effect, means most of modern America.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Over these voluntary agencies, in 1917-18, the CTCA served as a co-ordinating body in carrying out what Survey called `` the most stupendous piece of social work in modern times ''.

Turning to the more modern versions, Curzon's ( London ) offers the most sophisticated keyboard work.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.

True, we do not know how they were regarded in their day, but we need not believe the epic audience to have been more insensitive to the formulas than the numerous scholars of modern times who have read Germanic or Homeric poetry all their lives and still found much to admire in occasional occurrences of the most familiar phrases.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

In contrast to " rhizopods ", where most of their morphologies can be mapped to modern classification systems, " actinopods " appear to be extensively polyphyletic.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.

Altogether, Starostin concluded that the Altaic grouping was substantiated, though " older than most other language families in Eurasia, such as Indo-European or Finno-Ugric, and this is the reason why the modern Altaic languages preserve few common elements ".

Aramaic spread across Asia, reaching as far as India and becoming Brahmi, the ancestral abugida to most modern Indian and Southeast Asian scripts.

However, most modern abjads, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Avestan, are " impure " abjads, that is, they also contain symbols for some of the vowel phonemes.

Among the scripts in modern use, the Hebrew alphabet bears the closest relation to the Imperial Aramaic script of the 5th century BCE, with an identical letter inventory and, for the most part, nearly identical letter shapes.

Nowadays, most of the young people of Achill continue in school until they are 17 or 18, in one of the two post-primary schools and gain employment in modern high tech companies in Ireland and abroad.

The application of acoustics can be seen in almost all aspects of modern society with the most obvious being the audio and noise control industries.

The rough terrain has historically put the costs of building highways and railroads that cross the Andes out of reach of most neighboring countries, even with modern civil engineering practices.

In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.

The fortunes of Agamemnon have formed the subject of numerous tragedies, ancient and modern, the most famous being the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

Although Muslim scholars have often debated over who this verse refers to, most classical commentators and modern translators have taken the opinion that this refers to Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron.

From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.

ATA host adapters are integrated into motherboards of most modern PCs.

Other qualified home electronics include cordless phones, battery chargers, VCRs and external power adapters, most of which use 90 % less energy.

HDMI to VGA adapters generally won't be useful as most displays can't read analog over the HDMI port.

( Because of this feature, most computer video adapters using a 6845 included a light pen interface, though it was usually an internal connector on the board itself, not on the outside of the computer, and it was usually undocumented in the user manual.

As of late 2012, the most widely deployed HomePlug devices are " adapters ", which are standalone modules that plug into wall outlets ( or power strips or extension cords ) and provide one or more Ethernet ports.

Originally, most AC / DC adapters were linear power supplies, containing a transformer to convert the mains electricity voltage to a lower voltage, a rectifier to convert it to pulsating DC, and a filter to smooth the pulsating waveform to DC, with residual ripple variations small enough to leave the powered device unaffected.

* Weight and size reduction — When most power adapters featured simple mains-frequency transformer-based designs, they were quite heavy and large, and added considerably to the weight and bulk of devices designed to be lightweight.

The most prominent of these adapters is Col-R-Tel, a 1955 NTSC to field-sequential converter.

Linux on the Series 7 rather struggles, given the Series 7's limited resources, but most PC Card ( 16 bit ) adapters seem to be supported.

The most common kind of networking hardware today is copper-based Ethernet adapters, helped largely by its standard inclusion on most modern computer systems.

As most Airsoft players have noted that propane and silicone oil constitutes the majority of Green Gas propellant, manufacturers have produced adapters that attach to propane tanks that are available at many retail stores, usually including reservoirs to store lubricant ( usually silicone oil ).

An ATA-only Microdrive can be used in simple pass-through CompactFlash to IDE / SATA adapters for embedded use, however most digital cameras and some card readers will be unable to access the device.

Adapters have been built for such purposes, though in most cases, use of such adapters will void the warranty on the equipment they are used with.

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

This display of friendship caught most Americans totally off-guard and they never recovered from the initial impression made by the Chinese.

The belief that human souls choose good or evil totally independently of God's will, which is most often found among Arminian Christians, means that God does not ultimately determine the will of each soul.

After developing within the space of little over a century from an intersection of rural thoroughfares into the most bustling traffic intersection in Europe, it was totally laid waste during World War II and then left desolate during the Cold War era when the Berlin Wall bisected its former location.

The MVP result was controversial, as Martínez received the most first-place votes of any player ( 8 of 28 ), but was totally omitted from the ballot of two sportswriters, New York's George King and Minneapolis ' LaVelle Neal.

Empire described it as " the most purely horrifying horror movie ever made " and called it " never less than totally committed to scaring you witless ".

For most of us God is totally beyond the comprehension of mere finite beings such as ourselves, there may be exceptions.

The Federalists — too elitist to appeal to most people — faded away, and totally collapsed after 1815.

* August 12 – A magnitude 7. 2 earthquake totally devastates most of the Ionian Sea islands in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.

* The Family The family is the most important agent of socialization because it is the center of the child's life, as infants are totally dependent on others.

** The Tau ' ri, or humans of Earth, have a totally opposite spin on interference than the Federation, holding it to be Earth's duty to assist humans on other planets, and most other non-hostile races, wherever possible in whatever way possible.

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

However, the most studied model for the evaluation of therapeutics is the Mecp2-null mouse ( totally devoid of Mecp2 ).

The chronological history of shergottites is not totally understood, and a few workers have suggested that some may actually have formed prior to the times given by their radiometric ages, a suggestion not accepted by most workers.

Without doubt the most common of those species that are totally reliant on Ragwort for their survival is the Cinnabar Moth ( Tyria jacobaeae ).

The Gateway to the monastic city of Glendalough is one of the most important monuments, now totally unique in Ireland.

A speculation that his opponents organised a flypast at his funeral, giving rise to the missing man formation, is most unlikely and totally unsupported by any contemporary evidence.

It was severely damaged during the Blitz, with over a third of housing totally destroyed ; and then, in the 1960s, slum clearance and development replaced most residential streets with tower blocks and modern housing estates.

Anyway, we spent a very enjoyable evening there, totally failing to watch the first live broadcast of a film over the Internet ( via CU-SeeMe ) and instead spent most of the time talking to Lucy about her pet project, film. com.

The western boundary of Lyme is Lake Ontario, but most of the coastline comprises the shoreline of Chaumont Bay, which is totally within Lyme.

There are an additional 80 million people of German ancestry mainly in the United States, Brazil ( almost totally in the country's South Region ), Canada, Argentina, France, Russia, Chile, Poland, Australia and Romania ( who most likely are not native speakers of German ).

Herman Daly, a leading voice in the discipline of ecological economics, emphasizes that although Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is one of the most elegant theories in economics, its application to the present day is illogical: " Free capital mobility totally undercuts Ricardo's comparative advantage argument for free trade in goods, because that argument is explicitly and essentially premised on capital ( and other factors ) being immobile between nations.

The best of his short stories belong to the early intensely ratiocinative period, and both The Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1934 ) and The New Adventures ( 1940 ) are as absolutely fair and totally puzzling as the most passionate devotee of orthodoxy could wish ... ( E ) very story in these books is composed with wonderful skill.

It is one of the most congested A-road routes in the country, with high volumes of traffic ( including HGVs ) using a road which is totally unsuitable for the volume and nature of traffic it carries The A628 through Mottram carries traffic from the A57 road linking Manchester through Glossop to Sheffield over the Snake Pass, another major Trans-Pennine route.