Most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Puritan colonists, but there was also a small elite of Anglican " worthies " who were not involved in village life, who made their livings from estates, investments, and trade, and lived in mansions along " the Road to Watertown " ( today's Brattle Street, still known as Tory Row ).

Most ancient scientists were polymaths by today's standards.

Most of today's quartz clocks and watches use 32, 768 Hz quartz tuning forks for timekeeping.

Most of today's desktop computers have one of the three major operating systems available.

Most scholars believe this culture is not derived from the Changbinian, but was brought across the Strait by the ancestors of today's Taiwanese aborigines, speaking early Austronesian languages.

Most historians prefer to use the term " Frankish Kingdoms " or " Frankish Realm " to refer to the area covering parts of today's Germany and France from the 5th to the 9th century.

Most of the today's buildings on the wharf including the Bay Street Theatre were built during this time.

Most of today's castle was constructed in the 18th century, following plans from Vauban.

Most of these became extinct before they were recorded, so the only trace of these ancient dialects is some words borrowed into local dialects of today's Croatia.

Most of today's sites handle buyer and seller payments, and usually deduct a small commission only after the sale is completed.

Most of today's Jyväskylä was built after the Continuation war, when refugees from Karelia and other parts of the country moved to the city and housing was badly needed.

Most of today's large industrial facilities such as the Kremikovtsi steelworks and the Chervena Mogila engineering works were built under Zhivkov.

Most of these solutions use stylus-based haptic rendering, where the user interfaces to the virtual world via a tool or stylus, giving a form of interaction that is computationally realistic on today's hardware.

Most of today's guitar pick shapes were created by the company that made the first plastic pick in 1922, D ' Andrea Picks.

Most of today's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e. g., Fox Searchlight ) or genre films ( e. g., Sony's Screen Gems ); several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010.

Most vehicles in today's collections are of Swiss origin.

Most of the American Flyer-branded product sold by Lionel, LLC today is reissues of 1950s designs utilizing refurbished old Gilbert tooling, decorated in traditional road names and paint schemes used by Gilbert, as well as an influx of some of today's modern railroad heralds.

Most commonly, investors are risk-averse and today's price is below the expectation, remunerating those who bear the risk.

Most of today's appliances produce sound pressure levels between 45 and 120 decibels at ten feet.

Most of today's Mexican cuisine is based on pre-Hispanic traditions, including the Aztecs, Maya, and the Indigenous peoples of Mexico combined with culinary trends introduced by Spanish colonists.

Most of today's consumer electronics are now RoHS compliant, examples include Apple's iPod portable music players, Dell and HP home computers and servers, Nintendo's Wii, Motorola and Nokia's wireless phones, Netgear routers, and Panasonic televisions and appliances.

Most of today's major pharmaceutical companies were founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Most of today's actors on stage, television, and film owe much to Stanislavski's system.

Most of their knowledge was lost after the disaster, and today's Spellbinders only have a limited understanding of the science their technology is based on.

Most Hungarian scholars claim that they were two different Sarmatian groups, and that the Jazones are relatives of the Alans and the Ossetians.

Most of the Ossetians became Eastern Orthodox Christians in the 12th-13th centuries under the influence of Georgia.

Most of Ingushetia's territory had been settled by Ossetians and part of the region had been transferred to North Ossetia.

Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.

Most assuredly ideas are invaluable.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

Most women, in this age of freezers, shop for the entire week on week-ends, when prices are lower.

Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.

Most beakers are graduated in cubic centimeters ( cc. ), making it necessary to convert the result to cubic inches.

Most seams are sewn with backstitch, especially on curved, slanted or loose edges.

Most floor battens are glued and screwed to the flooring.

Most of the data used are from Groth's Chemische Krystallographie.

Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.

Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.

The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.

1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.

Most Jewish mothers are determined to exercise vigilance over the social and sexual lives of their daughters by keeping them home.

Most members of the U.S. Senate, because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they can.

Most library budgets are hopelessly inadequate.

Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.

Most of the female faces are new, or at least not too familiar.

Most references to " amoebas " or " amoebae " are to amoeboids in general rather than to the specific genus Amoeba.

Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters.

Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.

Most salamanders are under long.